² tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

¹ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

¹ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

² tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

² tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

³ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

² tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

² tn Or “forefather”; Grk “father.”

¹ tn Or “to our forefathers”; Grk “the fathers.”

¹ tn Or “our forefather”; Grk “our father.”

² tn Heb “our fathers,” meaning “our forefathers.”

¹ tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NIV “forefathers”; NCV “ancestors.”

³ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “was gathered to his fathers” (a Semitic idiom).

¹ tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB); NIV “forefathers” (also in vv. 4, 5).

¹ tn Heb “fathers,” but here the term also refers to “forefathers,” i.e., more distant ancestors.

³ tn Or “forefathers,” or “ancestors.” Here the referent could be the immediate parents or, by their example, more distant ancestors.

³ tn Or “our forefathers”; Grk “our fathers.” This begins with the promise to Abraham (vv. 55, 73), and thus refers to many generations of ancestors.

¹ sn For a longer example of an individual identifying with the nation and confessing their sins and the sins of their forefathers, see Ps 106.

² tn Heb “and their fathers to the camp of the Lord, guardians of the entrance.” Here “fathers” is used in a more general sense of “forefathers” or “ancestors” and is not limited specifically to their fathers only.

⁵ sn Anakites were giant people (Num 13:33; Deut 2:10, 21; 9:2) descended from a certain Anak whose own forefather Arba founded the city of Kiriath Arba, i.e., Hebron (Josh 21:11).