Discovery Box| (0.35) | (Job 8:8) | 1 sn Bildad is not calling for Job to trace through the learning of antiquity, but of the most recent former generation. Hebrews were fond of recalling what the “fathers” had taught, for each generation recalled what their fathers had taught. |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 35:5) | 1 tn Heb “and stand in the sanctuary by the divisions of the house of the fathers for your brothers, the sons of the people, and a division of the house of a father for the Levites.” |
| (0.35) | (1Sa 12:15) | 2 tc The LXX reads “your king” rather than the MT’s “your fathers.” The latter makes little sense here. Some follow MT, but translate “as it was against your fathers.” See P. K. McCarter, 1 Samuel (AB), 212. |
| (0.35) | (1Sa 9:3) | 3 tc The Syriac Peshitta includes the following words: “So Saul arose and went out. He took with him one of the boys and went out to look for his father’s donkeys.” |
| (0.35) | (Jdg 6:25) | 1 tn Or “Take a bull from your father’s herd, the second one, the one seven years old.” Apparently Gideon would need the bulls to pull down the altar. |
| (0.35) | (Jos 1:6) | 1 tn Heb “For you will cause these people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give to them.” The pronoun “them” at the end of the verse refers to either the people or to the fathers. |
| (0.35) | (Deu 22:30) | 3 sn This presupposes either the death of the father or their divorce since it would be impossible for one to marry his stepmother while his father was still married to her. |
| (0.35) | (Num 30:4) | 2 tn The verb קוּם (qum) is best translated “stand” here, but the idea with it is that what she vows is established as a genuine oath with the father’s approval (or acquiescence). |
| (0.35) | (Gen 27:31) | 1 tn Heb “and he said to his father”; the referent of “he” (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity, while the words “his father” have been replaced by the pronoun “him” for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.35) | (Gen 9:24) | 3 tn The Hebrew verb עָשָׂה (ʿasah, “to do”) carries too general a sense to draw the conclusion that Ham had to have done more than look on his father’s nakedness and tell his brothers. |
| (0.35) | (Pro 1:8) | 4 tn Heb “of.” The noun אָבִיךָ (ʾavikha, “of your father”) may be classified as a genitive of source. |
| (0.35) | (Job 30:2) | 1 tn The reference is to the fathers of the scorners, who are here regarded as weak and worthless. |
| (0.35) | (Ezr 1:8) | 4 sn A Babylonian name with the probable meaning “Shamash protect the father.” See HALOT 1664-65 s.v. שֵׁשְׁבַּצַּר. |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 34:28) | 1 tn Heb “Therefore, behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 33:8) | 1 tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I established for their fathers.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 28:1) | 2 tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 21:19) | 2 tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 20:33) | 1 tn Heb “and still the people did not set their heart[s] on the God of their fathers.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 10:11) | 1 tn Heb “and now my father placed upon you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke.” |
| (0.35) | (2Ch 2:14) | 1 tn Heb “a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre.” |
