Discovery Box| (0.30) | (2Ki 6:8) | 2 sn The advisers would have mentioned a specific location, but the details are not significant to the narrator’s purpose, so he simply paraphrases here. |
| (0.30) | (2Ki 4:43) | 2 tn The verb forms are infinitives absolute (Heb “eating and leaving over”) and have to be translated in light of the context. |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 18:26) | 3 tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb. |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 12:31) | 1 tn The Hebrew text has the singular, but the plural is preferable here (see 1 Kgs 13:32). The Old Greek translation and the Vulgate have the plural. |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 12:18) | 1 tc The MT has “Adoram” here, but the Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “Adoniram.” Cf. 1 Kgs 4:6. |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 12:9) | 1 tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here. |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 8:59) | 1 tn Heb “May these words of mine, which I have requested before the Lord, be near the Lord our God day and night.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 3:6) | 4 tn Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 2:9) | 1 tc The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew. |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 18:12) | 3 tn Heb “a thousand [shekels] of silver.” This would have been about 25 pounds (11.4 kg) of silver by weight. |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 14:16) | 2 tn Or “will.” The imperfect verbal form can have either an indicative or modal nuance. The use of “perhaps” in v. 15b suggests the latter here. |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 12:3) | 2 tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical. |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 11:25) | 4 tn The Hebrew text does not have “with these words.” They are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 10:10) | 1 tc Two medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta have the singular “he” (in which case the referent would be Saul alone). |
| (0.30) | (Rut 3:7) | 3 sn Ruth must have waited until Boaz fell asleep, for he does not notice when she uncovers his legs and lies down beside him. |
| (0.30) | (Rut 2:8) | 1 tn Heb “Have you not heard?” The idiomatic, negated rhetorical question is equivalent to an affirmation (see F. W. Bush, Ruth, Esther [WBC], 119, and GKC 474 §150.e). |
| (0.30) | (Rut 1:11) | 2 tn Heb “Do I still have sons in my inner parts that they might become your husbands?” Again Naomi’s rhetorical question expects a negative answer. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 14:15) | 4 tn The Hebrew text expands the statement: “burn up with fire.” The words “with fire” are redundant in English and have been omitted from the translation for stylistic reasons. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 11:8) | 2 tn Heb “we have returned to you.” For another example of שׁוּב אֶל (shuv ʾel) in the sense of “give allegiance to,” see 1 Kgs 12:27b. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 5:15) | 5 tc The great majority of Hebrew mss have “resolves of heart,” but a few mss read “searchings of heart,” which is preferable in light of v. 16. |
