⁴ tn Heb “the dead” (so KJV, NRSV); NLT “your husbands.” This refers to their deceased husbands.

¹ sn This section of the rift valley is to the north and west of the Dead Sea.

¹ sn The Salt Sea is another name for the Dead Sea (also in v. 5).

⁴ sn The slopes of Pisgah lie east of the northern tip of the Dead Sea.

³ sn The Salt Sea is an ancient name for the Dead Sea.

¹ tn Heb “And Abraham arose from upon the face of his dead.”

³ sn The Salt Sea is the older name for the Dead Sea.

³ tn Or “abandoned in the world of the dead.” The translation “world of the dead” for Hades is suggested by L&N 1.19. The phrase is an allusion to Ps 16:10.

¹ tn Heb “Sheol” (so ASV, NASB, NRSV); the underworld, the land of the dead, according to the OT world view. Cf. NAB “the nether world”; TEV, CEV “the world of the dead”; NLT “the grave.”

¹ tn The term שְׁאוֹל (sh^eʾol, “Sheol”) refers here to the realm of the dead: “the grave” (so KJV, NIV, NLT); cf. TEV, CEV “the world of the dead”; NAB “the nether world.”

² tn The Hiphil is here classified as an inchoative Hiphil (see GKC 145 §53.e), for the tree only begins to die. In other words, it appears to be dead, but actually is not completely dead.

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

² sn In 2 Kgs 4:31 the words “there was no sound and there was no response” are used to describe a dead boy. Similar words are used here to describe the god Baal as dead and therefore unresponsive.

¹ sn The rift valley extends from Galilee to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Jordan River runs through it from Galilee to the Dead Sea, so the rift valley, the Jordan, and the Dead Sea work together naturally as a boundary.

⁴ sn The resurrection of the dead. Paul’s point was, what crime was there in holding this religious belief?

² tn Heb “his face to the eastern sea.” In this context the eastern sea is probably the Dead Sea.

¹ tn Heb “the sea,” referring to the Dead Sea. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ sn The actions referred to here were all acts used to mourn the dead (cf. Isa 15:2-3).

¹ tn Heb “Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.”

¹ sn Sheol is the proper name of the subterranean world which was regarded as the land of the dead.