² tn Grk “the altar saying.”

² tn Heb “the altar.”

¹ tn Heb “their altars.”

² sn The altar is perhaps the altar at Bethel.

¹ tn Heb “the altars of the foreigner.”

¹ tn That is, the newly constructed altar.

¹ tn Heb “extended his hand from the altar.”

³ tn Heb “he plated [the] altar of cedar.”

¹ tn Heb “in the flame from the altar.”

² tn Heb “to the half of the altar.”

¹ sn See v. 7, where this altar is identified as the altar of fragrant incense.

¹ tn The Hebrew text has “on the altar,” but since there were seven of each animal and seven altars, the implication is that this means on each altar.

¹ tn Grk “Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing.”

¹ sn These shovels were used to clean the altar.

¹ sn These shovels were used to clean the altar.

³ tn Heb “when he makes the stones of an altar.” The singular “altar” is collective here; pagan altars are in view, as the last line of the verse indicates. See also 17:8.

¹ tn Heb “and they arose and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem, and all the incense altars they removed and threw into the Kidron Valley.”

¹ tn Possibly “in a row” or “in a layer,” perhaps referring to the arrangement of the stones used in the altar’s construction.

¹ sn The bronze altar is the altar for the burnt offering; the large bronze basin is not included here in the list.

¹ tn The article on this word identifies this as the altar, meaning the main high altar on which the sacrifices would be made.