¹ tn Heb “if they are not full, they stay through the night.”

¹ tn Heb “I cause to swim through all the night my bed.”

¹ tn Heb “and they caused to stand a word to cause a voice to pass through.”

² tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”

² tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”

³ tn Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”

² tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”

³ tn Heb “From Mizpah in Gilead he passed through [to] the Ammonites.”

² tn Grk “those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.” It is possible that “through Jesus” describes “bring,” but this gives the unlikely double reference, “through Jesus God will bring them with Jesus.” Instead it describes their “falling sleep,” since through him their death is only sleep and not the threat it once was. Also Christians are those whose total existence—life and death—is in and through and for Christ (1 Cor 8:6).

¹ tn The Greek text lays specific emphasis on “He” through the use of the intensive pronoun, αὐτός (autos). This is reflected in the English translation through the use of “the very one.”

² tn The preposition בְּ (bet) on בְּהוֹשֵׁעַ (b^ehosheaʿ) functions instrumentally (BDB 89 s.v. בְּ III.2.b): “by, with, through Hosea,” rather than directionally: “to Hosea.” This use encompasses the entire prophetic revelation through Hosea to Israel.

¹ tn Heb “carry loads on the Sabbath and bring [them] in through.” The translation treats the two verbs “carry” and “bring in” as an example of hendiadys (see the note on “through” in 17:21).

⁴ sn The antithetical proverb states that a righteous person can escape devastating slander through knowledge. The righteous will have sufficient knowledge and perception to see through the hypocrisy and avoid its effect.

¹ tn Heb “who passes his son or his daughter through the fire.” The expression “pass…through the fire” is probably a euphemism for human sacrifice (cf. NAB, NIV, TEV, NLT). See also Deut 12:31.

² tn The instructions had them first go up into the southern desert of the land, and after passing through that, into the hill country of the Canaanites. The text could be rendered “into the Negev” as well as “through the Negev.”

² sn The OT prophets wondered about the person and the surrounding circumstances (time) through which God would fulfill his promised salvation.

¹ tn Or “worked through”; the same word is also used in relation to Paul later in this verse.

² sn Do not harm yourself. Again the irony is that Paul is the agent through whom the jailer is spared.

⁴ tn Grk “what was done through the angel was a reality” (see BDAG 43 s.v. ἀληθής 3).

⁴ tn This possibility is introduced through a conditional clause, but it is expressed with some skepticism (BDF §376).