(0.52) | (Psa 26:2) | 1 tn Heb “evaluate my kidneys and my heart.” The kidneys and heart were viewed as the seat of one’s volition, conscience, and moral character. |
(0.52) | (Job 37:9) | 1 tn The “driving winds” reflects the Hebrew “from the scatterers.” This refers to the north winds that bring the cold air and the ice and snow and hard rains. |
(0.52) | (Job 36:1) | 2 tn The use of וַיֹּסֶף (vayyosef) is with the hendiadys construction: “and he added and said,” meaning “and he said again, further.” |
(0.52) | (Job 29:3) | 3 sn Lamp and light are symbols of God’s blessings of life and all the prosperous and good things it includes. |
(0.52) | (Job 7:3) | 1 tn “Thus” indicates a summary of vv. 1 and 2: like the soldier, the mercenary, and the slave, Job has labored through life and looks forward to death. |
(0.52) | (Est 8:16) | 1 tn Heb “light and gladness and joy and honor” (so NASB). The present translation understands the four terms to be a double hendiadys. |
(0.52) | (Neh 5:9) | 1 tc The translation reads with the Qere and the ancient versions וָאוֹמַר (vaʾomar, “and I said”) rather than the MT Kethib, וַיֹּאמֶר (vayyoʾmer, “and he said”). |
(0.52) | (2Ch 32:28) | 1 tn Heb “and stalls for all beasts and beasts, and flocks for the stalls.” The repetition of בְּהֵמָה (behemah, “beast”) here indicates various kinds of livestock. |
(0.52) | (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.” |
(0.52) | (2Ch 24:8) | 1 tn Heb “and the king said [it] and they made a chest and placed it in the gate of the house of the Lord outside.” |
(0.52) | (2Ch 23:16) | 1 tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and [between] all the people and [between] the king, to become a people for the Lord.” |
(0.52) | (2Ch 16:6) | 1 tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.” |
(0.52) | (2Ch 15:18) | 1 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.” |
(0.52) | (2Ch 11:23) | 1 tn Heb “and he was discerning and broke up from all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities.” |
(0.52) | (2Ch 8:6) | 4 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.” |
(0.52) | (2Ch 7:20) | 5 tn Heb “and I will make him [i.e., Israel] a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach. |
(0.52) | (1Ch 29:10) | 1 tn Heb “assembly, and David said.” The words “and David said” are redundant according to contemporary English style and have not been included in the translation. |
(0.52) | (1Ch 22:16) | 1 tn Heb “and every kind of skilled one in all work, concerning gold, concerning silver, and concerning bronze, and concerning iron, there is no numbering.” |
(0.52) | (1Ch 11:9) | 1 tn Heb “and David went, going and becoming great, and the Lord of Heaven’s Armies [traditionally, Lord of hosts] was with him.” |
(0.52) | (2Ki 24:4) | 1 tn Heb “and also the blood of the innocent which he shed, and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.” |