Discovery Box| (0.50) | (Jdg 4:2) | 2 tn Or “King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite ruler.” |
| (0.50) | (Jos 2:3) | 1 tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.” |
| (0.50) | (Gen 36:31) | 1 tn Or perhaps “before any Israelite king ruled over [them].” |
| (0.49) | (Hag 1:1) | 2 sn King Darius is the Persian king Darius Hystaspes who ruled from 522-486 b.c. |
| (0.49) | (Psa 20:4) | 2 sn May he bring all your plans to pass. This probably refers to the king’s strategy for battle. |
| (0.49) | (Psa 2:9) | 3 sn Like a potter’s jar. Before the Davidic king’s awesome power, the rebellious nations are like fragile pottery. |
| (0.49) | (Psa 2:10) | 1 sn The speaker here is either the psalmist or the Davidic king, who now addresses the rebellious kings. |
| (0.49) | (Est 4:3) | 1 tn Heb “reached” (so NAB, NLT); KJV, NASB, NIV “came”; TEV “wherever the king’s proclamation was made known.” |
| (0.49) | (Est 2:18) | 1 tc The LXX does not include the words “and he provided for offerings at the king’s expense.” |
| (0.49) | (Est 2:4) | 2 tn Heb “the matter was good in the eyes of the king.” Cf. TEV “The king thought this was good advice.” |
| (0.49) | (2Ch 22:11) | 2 tn Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.49) | (2Ch 9:22) | 1 tn Heb “King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and wisdom.” |
| (0.49) | (1Ki 22:37) | 1 tn Heb “and the king died and he came to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.” |
| (0.49) | (Jos 10:1) | 3 tn Heb “as he had done to Jericho and to its king, so he did to Ai and to its king.” |
| (0.49) | (Gen 14:17) | 3 sn The King’s Valley is possibly a reference to what came to be known later as the Kidron Valley. |
| (0.49) | (Est 5:1) | 2 tn Heb “the house of the king”; NASB “the king’s rooms”; NIV, NLT “the king’s hall.” This expression is used twice in this verse. In the first instance, it is apparently the larger palace complex that is in view, whereas in the second instance the expression seems to refer specifically to the quarters from which the king governed. |
| (0.45) | (Mic 5:3) | 7 sn The rest of the king’s countrymen are the coming king’s fellow Judahites, while the people of Israel are the northern tribes. The verse pictures the reunification of the nation under the Davidic king. See Isa 11:12-13; Jer 31:2-6, 15-20; Ezek 37; Hos 1:11; 3:5. |
| (0.45) | (Est 3:10) | 1 sn Possessing the king’s signet ring would enable Haman to act with full royal authority. The king’s ring would be used to impress the royal seal on edicts, making them as binding as if the king himself had enacted them. |
| (0.43) | (Mic 4:9) | 4 tn Traditionally, “counselor” (cf. KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). This refers to the king mentioned in the previous line; the title points to the king’s roles as chief strategist and policy maker, both of which required extraordinary wisdom. |
| (0.43) | (Dan 11:40) | 2 tn The referent of the pronoun is most likely the king of the south, in which case the text describes the king of the north countering the attack of the king of the south. |
