Discovery Box| (0.30) | (1Ki 4:25) | 1 tn Heb “Judah and Israel lived securely, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer Sheba, all the days of Solomon.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 3:13) | 2 tn Heb “so that there is not one among the kings like you all your days.” The LXX lacks the words “all your days.” |
| (0.30) | (1Ki 1:48) | 2 tn Or “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who….” In this blessing formula אֲשֶׁר (ʾasher, “who; because”) introduces the reason why the one being blessed deserves the honor. |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 20:19) | 1 tn Heb “a city and a mother.” The expression is a hendiadys, meaning that this city was an important one in Israel and had smaller cities dependent on it. |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 18:33) | 2 tc One medieval Hebrew ms, some mss of the LXX, and the Vulgate lack this repeated occurrence of “my son” due to haplography. |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 16:23) | 1 tn Heb “And the advice of Ahithophel which he advised in those days was as when one inquires of the word of God.” |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 14:7) | 2 sn My remaining coal is here metaphorical language, describing the one remaining son as her only source of lingering hope for continuing the family line. |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 13:18) | 3 tn The Hebrew verb is a perfect with nonconsecutive vav, probably indicating an action (locking the door) that complements the preceding one (pushing her out the door). |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 7:9) | 2 tn Heb “and I will make for you a great name like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.” |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 2:16) | 1 tn Heb “and they grabbed each one the head of his neighbor with his sword in the side of his neighbor and they fell together.” |
| (0.30) | (2Sa 2:4) | 2 tn Heb “and they told David.” The subject appears to be indefinite, allowing one to translate the verb as passive with David as subject. |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 28:8) | 1 tn Heb “Use divination for me with the ritual pit and bring up for me the one whom I say to you.” |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 2:9) | 3 tc The LXX begins the verse differently, “granting the prayer to the one who prays; he blessed the years of the righteous.” |
| (0.30) | (1Sa 2:10) | 5 tn Heb “the horn,” here a metaphor for power or strength. Cf. NCV “make his appointed king strong”; NLT “increases the might of his anointed one.” |
| (0.30) | (Rut 3:14) | 2 tn Heb “and she arose before a man could recognize his companion”; NRSV “before one person could recognize another”; CEV “before daylight.” |
| (0.30) | (Rut 1:21) | 5 sn The divine name translated Sovereign One is שַׁדַּי (shadday, “Shaddai”). See further the note on this term in Ruth 1:20. |
| (0.30) | (Rut 1:22) | 1 tn Heb “and Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, the one who returned from the region of Moab.” |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 20:45) | 3 tn Heb “gleaned.” The word is an agricultural term which pictures Israelites picking off the Benjaminites as easily as one picks grapes from the vine. |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 21:5) | 1 tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’” |
| (0.30) | (Jdg 20:46) | 2 tn Heb “So all the ones who fell from Benjamin were 25,000 men, wielding the sword, in that day, all of these men of strength. |
