² tn Grk “and was about to be killed by them.” The passive construction has been converted to an active one in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ sn “We are ready to kill him.” Now those Jews involved in the conspiracy, along with the leaders as accomplices, are going to break one of the ten commandments.

¹ sn Fitting the pattern emphasized earlier with Stephen and his speech in Acts 7, some Jews plotted to kill God’s messenger (cf. Luke 11:53-54).

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the tenants’ decision to kill the son.

⁴ sn They will kill him and after three days he will rise. See the note at the end of Mark 8:30 regarding the passion predictions.

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the tenants’ decision to kill the son in v. 38.

¹ sn The intent here is to emphasize the large quantity of those who are killed—there will be too many to insure proper mourning rites and proper burial.

⁴ tn Heb “Let us smite him with our tongues.” It is clear from the context that this involved plots to kill him.

¹ tn Heb “against me.” The words “to kill me” are implicit from the context and are supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “radiant [are] you, majestic from the hills of prey.” God is depicted as a victorious king and as a lion that has killed its victims.

² sn To take the possessions of another person is hereby compared to sucking poison from a serpent—it will kill eventually.

² tn Heb “was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so he [i.e., the Lord] killed him [i.e., Er].”

³ tn Heb “Each struck down his counterpart.” The presumption is that the armies are wiped out, not just that the kings killed each other.

² tn Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”

¹ tn Or perhaps “struck down the Philistine official.” See the note at 1 Sam 10:5. Cf. TEV “killed the Philistine commander.”

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the one who accidentally kills another, cf. v. 2) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “And he did to them so and he rescued them from the hand of the sons of Israel and they did not kill them.”

² tn Heb “a dead body,” but in contrast to the person killed with a sword, this must refer to someone who died of natural causes.

³ tn The word “animals” is added to avoid giving the impression in English that the Passover festival itself is the object of “kill.”

¹ tn Heb “strikes.” Here the verb has the nuance “to harm in any way.” It would include assaulting the woman or killing the man.