¹ sn Appointed elders. See Acts 20:17.

⁶ tn Heb “and before his elders [in] splendor.”

¹ tn Heb “in the seat of the elders.”

² tn Heb “and his elders he taught wisdom.”

⁴ tn Heb “elders,” both here and before “of the people.”

¹ tn Heb “elder” (so ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); NCV “older leaders.”

¹ tn Heb “and the elders were sitting with him.”

² tn Or perhaps “elders,” which could be interpreted to mean “leaders.”

¹ tn Grk “if anyone is blameless…” as a continuation of v. 5b, beginning to describe the elder’s character.

¹ tn Heb “elders were shown no respect.” The phrase “shown no respect” is an example of tapeinosis, a figurative expression of understatement: to show no respect to elders = to terribly mistreat elders.

³ tn “Before all” probably refers to the whole congregation, not just all the elders; “the rest” is more likely to denote the remaining elders.

⁶ sn Legal disputes were resolved in the city gate, where the town elders met.

¹ sn Elders here refers not necessarily to men advanced in years but to leaders within the community.

² sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.

¹ tn Heb “and the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.”

¹ tn Heb “and David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.”

¹ tn Heb “and the king sent and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem gathered to him.”

¹ tn Heb “and he took 10 men from the elders of the town.”

² tn Heb “wrote down for him the officials of Sukkoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.”

² tn Heb “all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived him.”