² tn Heb “let me strike him with the spear and into the ground one time.”

¹ tn Heb “and he did not cause to fall from all his words to the ground.”

² tn Heb “she fell upon her face and bowed to the ground” (KJV, NASB similar).

² tn Heb “Let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”

⁴ tn Heb “Joshua fell on his face to the ground and bowed down.”

² tn Heb “and the fullness of the hollow of his two hands, finely ground fragrant incense.”

¹ tn Heb “in the field” (so KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV); NAB, NIV, NLT “on the ground.”

¹ tn The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) focuses attention on what is being said as grounds for what follows.

¹ tn This is the same Hebrew word translated “ground” in the preceding verse.

¹ tn In v. 13 the ground (הָאֲדָמָה, haʾadamah) is dry; now the earth (הָאָרֶץ, haʾarets) is dry.

¹ tn Heb “earth,” but here the term refers to the dry ground as opposed to the sea.

³ tn The term יְסוֹד (y^esod, “foundation”) refers to the ground-level and below ground-level foundation stones of a city wall (Ps 137:7; Lam 4:11; Mic 1:6).

¹ tn Heb “and he will give rain for your seed that you plant in the ground, and food [will be] the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and abundant.”

⁵ tn Heb “he ruined [it] to the ground.” The direct object is implied. Onan deliberately got rid of his semen on the ground so that his brother’s widow would not become pregnant.

⁴ sn Bowed their faces to the ground. Such respect for angels is common: Dan 7:28; 10:9, 15.

⁸ tn Grk “he fell on his face”; an idiom for bowing down with one’s face to the ground.

¹ tn Grk “ground, praying and saying.” Here the participle λέγων (legōn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

² tn Heb “and I brought down to the ground their juice.” “Juice” refers to their blood (see v. 3).

¹ tn Heb “the thirsty.” Parallelism suggests that dry ground is in view (see “dry land” in the next line.)

³ tn Heb “he will bring [it] down, he will make [it] touch the ground, even to the dust.”