¹ tn Heb “and they camped against Gibeon and fought against it.”

¹ tn Heb “turn”; NAB “Leave here”; NIV, TEV “Break camp.”

⁴ tn Heb “or who slaughters from outside to the camp.”

¹ tn Heb “he shall bring into from outside to the camp.”

¹ tn Heb “If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it.”

³ tn The sentence actually has “[those camping…are] the standard of the camp of Judah according to their divisions.”

² sn The name Mahanaim apparently means “two camps.” Perhaps the two camps were those of God and of Jacob.

¹ tn Or “Mahaneh Dan”; the Hebrew term “Mahaneh” means “camp [of].” Many English versions retain the transliterated Hebrew expression, but cf. CEV “Dan’s Camp.”

¹ tn Heb “on his journeys”; the verb and noun combination means to pick up the tents and move from camp to camp.

³ tn Heb “went up and camped”; NIV, NRSV “went up and besieged.”

¹ tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”

² tn Heb “to the edge of the ones in battle array who were in the camp.”

¹ tn Heb “all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua [at] Makkedah [in] peace.”

² tn Heb “And he shall bring out the bull to from outside to the camp.”

¹ tn Heb “and he camped in the Valley of Gerar and he lived there.”

² tn Heb “the town where David camped.” The verb חָנָה (khanah, “camp”) probably has the nuance “lay siege to” here. See v. 3. Another option is to take the verb in the sense of “lived, settled.”

³ tn Heb “camp.” The same Hebrew word is used in Exod 14:20. Unlike the English word “camp,” it can be used of a body of people at rest (encamped) or on the move.

¹ sn Human waste was to remain outside the camp of the Israelites according to Deut 23:15.

² tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”

¹ tn Heb “and the Hebrews were to the Philistines formerly, who went up with them in the camp all around.”