Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Job 30:7) | 2 tn The Pual of the verb סָפַח (safakh, “to join”) also brings out the passivity of these people—“they were huddled together” (E. Dhorme, Job, 434). |
| (0.30) | (Job 3:1) | 1 sn The previous chapters (1-2) were prose narrative, this chapter, however, commences the poetic section of the book (chs. 3-41) containing the cycles of speeches. |
| (0.30) | (Job 1:11) | 2 tn The force of the imperatives in this sentence are almost conditional—if God were to do this, then surely Job would respond differently. |
| (0.30) | (Est 2:23) | 1 tn Heb “they both were hanged.” The referent (the two eunuchs who conspired against the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Est 2:7) | 3 tn Heb “for there was not to her father or mother.” This is universally understood to mean Esther’s father and mother were no longer alive. |
| (0.30) | (Neh 10:1) | 1 tn The words “were the following names” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity. Cf. vv. 9, 10, 14. |
| (0.30) | (Neh 4:17) | 1 tn The first words of v. 17, “who were rebuilding the wall,” should be taken with the latter part of v. 16. |
| (0.30) | (Neh 1:2) | 2 tn The Hebrew text does not include the words “to me”; these words were supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Ezr 10:16) | 1 tc The translation reads the Hiphil singular וַיַּבְדֵּל לוֹ (vayyavdel lo, “separated for himself”) rather than the Niphal plural וַיִּבָּדְלוּ (vayyibbadelu, “were separated”) of the MT. |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 34:10) | 2 tn Heb “and they gave it to the doers of the work who were working in the house of the Lord to restore and to repair the house.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 30:14) | 1 tn Heb “and they arose and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem, and all the incense altars they removed and threw into the Kidron Valley.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 28:15) | 1 tn Heb “and the men who were designated by names arose and took the captives and all their naked ones they clothed from the loot.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 9:23) | 1 tn Heb “and all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 9:24) | 1 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ch 8:10) | 1 tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who belonged to the king, Solomon, 250, the ones ruling over the people.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 23:27) | 1 tn Heb “for by the final words of David, they were the number of the sons of Levi, from a son of twenty years and upward.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 20:3) | 1 tc The Hebrew text reads “saws,” but since saws were just mentioned, it is preferable to emend מְגֵרוֹת (megerot, “saws”) to מַגְזְרוֹת (magzerot, “axes”). |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 16:42) | 1 tn Heb “and with them, Heman and Jeduthun, trumpets and cymbals for sounding, and the instrument of song of God, and the sons of Jeduthun [were] at the gate.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 12:2) | 2 tn The words “These were” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons because of the length of the intervening material since the beginning of the verse. |
| (0.30) | (1Ch 9:23) | 1 tn Heb “and they and their sons to the gates of the house of the Lord, of the house of the tent, [were assigned] as guards.” |
