¹ tn Heb “Nebuchadnezzar’s.” The possessive pronoun is substituted in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “Look, I am about to give you for a possession to.”

² tn Heb “for a short time they had a possession, the people of your holiness.”

³ tn Heb “will possess it” (so NIV); NCV “they will own that land forever.”

¹ tn Heb “and the [product of the] work of peoples they possessed.”

³ tn Heb “and those who wait on the Lord, they will possess the land.”

⁴ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession to their cities.”

⁴ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

¹ tn Heb “in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel.”

² tn Heb “sap.” That is, he was still in possession of his faculties or liveliness.

³ tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.” This phrase has been left untranslated to avoid redundancy.

² tn Heb “to possess it” (so KJV, ASV); NLT “as their inheritance.”

¹ tn Heb “there must not be for you other gods.” The expression “for you” indicates possession.

² tn The Hebrew text includes “(as) an inheritance,” or “(as) a possession.”

¹ tn That is, the possession of land, or property, among the other families of their tribe.

³ tn Heb “in the house of the land of your possession” (KJV and ASV both similar).

² tn The Hebrew idiom is “to Lot…there was,” the preposition here expressing possession.

³ tn Or “the.” The Greek text has the article τῇ (tē), not the possessive pronoun ὑμῶν (humōn), but the article often functions as a possessive pronoun and was translated as such here (ExSyn 215).

⁴ tn Grk “in the house.” The Greek article is used here in a context that implies possession, and the referent of the implied possessive pronoun (Matthew) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “possess, own.” The point seems to be that he will have free access to God’s presence, as if God’s temple mount were his personal possession.