¹ tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”

⁴ tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”

¹ tn Heb “His house Solomon built in 13 years and he completed all his house.”

¹ tn Or “built up”; This is the same word used in v. 1b. It is used ironically here: The weak person is “built up” to commit what he regards as sin.

¹ tn Heb “He built 20 cubits from the rear areas of the temple with cedar planks from the floor to the walls, and he built it on the inside for an inner sanctuary, for a holy place of holy places.”

² tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”

⁴ sn The name Sukkoth means “shelters,” an appropriate name in light of the shelters Jacob built there for his livestock.

³ tn Heb “perhaps I will be built from her.” Sarai hopes to have a family established through this surrogate mother.

¹ tn Grk “to whom coming…you are built up…” as a continuation of the reference to the Lord in v. 3.

³ tn Heb “Houses of chiseled stone you built, but you will not live in them. Fine vineyards you planted, but you will not drink their wine.”

⁴ sn The wicked person is described here as a spray or foam upon the waters, built up in the agitation of the waters but dying away swiftly.

¹ tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

¹ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

⁴ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

¹ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

⁴ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

¹ tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בָּאנוּ (baʾnu, “we have come”) rather than the MT’s בָּנוּ (banu, “we have built”).

² sn Heb “ways that are not built up.” This refers to the built-up highways. See Isa 40:4 for the figure. The terms “way,” “by-paths,” and “roads” are, of course, being used here in the sense of moral behavior or action.

¹ tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the house of ivory which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

² sn Deuteronomy says that Moses was also to make an ark of acacia wood before the tablets, apparently to put the tablets in until the sanctuary was built. But this ark may not have been the ark built later; or, it might be the wood box, but Bezalel still had to do all the golden work with it.