Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Eze 2:4) | 1 tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 25:5) | 3 tn Heb “gave to you and your fathers with reference to from ancient times even unto forever.” See the same idiom in 7:7. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 11:4) | 2 tn Heb “does not listen…this covenant which I commanded your fathers.” The sentence is broken up this way in conformity with contemporary English style. |
| (0.30) | (Jer 3:4) | 1 tn Heb “Have you not just now called out to me, ‘[You are] My father!’?” The rhetorical question expects a positive answer. |
| (0.30) | (Isa 37:12) | 2 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them—Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?” |
| (0.30) | (Pro 28:7) | 3 sn The companion of gluttons shames his father and his family because such a life style as he now embraces is both unruly and antisocial. |
| (0.30) | (Psa 44:2) | 2 tn Heb “dispossessed nations and planted them.” The third masculine plural pronoun “them” refers to the fathers (v. 1). See Ps 80:8, 15. |
| (0.30) | (Job 15:18) | 2 tn Heb “their fathers.” Some commentators change one letter and follow the reading of the LXX: “and their fathers have not hidden.” Pope tries to get the same reading by classifying the ם (mem) as an enclitic mem. The MT on first glance would read “and did not hide from their fathers.” Some take the clause “and they did not hide” as adverbial and belonging to the first part of the verse: “what wise men declare, hiding nothing, according to the tradition of their fathers.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 36:15) | 2 tn Heb “and the Lord God of their fathers sent against them by the hand of his messengers, getting up early and sending.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 29:2) | 1 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which David his father had done.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 27:2) | 1 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 26:4) | 1 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Amaziah his father had done.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 20:32) | 1 tn Heb “he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 15:18) | 1 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 10:14) | 1 tc The Hebrew text reads, “I will make heavy your yoke,” but many medieval Hebrew mss and other ancient textual witnesses have, “my father made heavy your yoke.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 6:7) | 1 tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 9:19) | 1 tn Heb “and his brothers belonging to the house of his father, the Korachites, to the work of the task, guardians of the threshold of the tent.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 2:55) | 3 tn Or (if בֵּית [beth] is translated as “house” rather than considered to be part of the name) “the father of the house [i.e., family] of Rechab.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 19:12) | 1 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them—Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?” |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 18:3) | 1 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which David his father had done.” |
