⁴ tn Heb “building.”

¹ tn Heb “building.”

¹ tn Heb “building.”

² tn Heb “rises up and builds.”

² tn Heb “Let us build with you.”

¹ tn Heb “they will not build, and another live [in it].”

¹ tn Heb “and they will build from you ancient ruins.”

¹ tn Heb “by building.” The prepositional phrase may be subordinated to what precedes, “if in unfaithfulness…by building.”

² tn Or “every building.” Although “every building” is a more natural translation of the Greek, it does not fit as naturally into the context, which (with its emphasis on corporate unity) seems to stress the idea of one building.

² tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building for housing livestock).

² tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building to house livestock).

² tn The Hebrew text simply has בָּנוּ (banu), but since v. 8 says they left off building the city, an ingressive idea (“had started building”) should be understood here.

¹ sn The Greek term builds (himself) up does not necessarily bear positive connotations in this context.

¹ tn Heb “and build the house” (so NIV, NRSV), with “house” referring specifically to the temple here.

² tn Heb “and I will build to a generation and a generation your throne.”

¹ tn Heb “and these are the founding of Solomon to build the house of God.”

⁵ tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”

² tn Heb “craftsman of a wall,” that is, masons skilled at building stone walls.

⁴ tn Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”

² tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”