⁴ tn Heb “are to be captured.”

⁵ tn Heb “they captured the waters.”

³ tn Grk “born for capture and destruction.”

¹ tn Grk “having been captured by him.”

² tn Heb “was captured in their pits.”

² tn Heb “capture before them the waters.”

² tn Heb “he camped near Thebez and captured it.”

¹ tn Heb “to fight against it to capture it.”

³ tn Only “chief priests” is in the nominative case; this sentence structure attempts to capture this emphasis.

² tn Heb “She will be captured from there (i.e., from the north).”

¹ tn Heb “Siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it.”

³ tn Heb “from capture,” a figure for the calamity of v. 25.

¹ tn Heb “they took captive and they plundered,” that is, “they captured as plunder.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he will remind of guilt to be captured.” The king would counter their objections by pointing out that they had violated their treaty with him (see 17:18), thus justifying their capture.

³ tn Heb “his own iniquities will capture the wicked.” The translation shifts the syntax for the sake of smoothness and readability.

² sn Zebah and Zalmunna were the Midianite kings. Gideon captured them and executed them (Judg 8:1-21).

¹ tn Heb “Are [they] ones you captured with your sword or your bow (that) you can strike (them) down?”

⁶ tn Heb “and the people went up into the city, each one straight ahead, and they captured the city.”

¹ sn This well-fortified city is apparently Sidon. Its capture from the Ptolemies by Antiochus the Great was a strategic victory for the Seleucid kingdom.

³ tn Heb “apart from [i.e., without] a bow they were captured”; cf. NAB, NRSV “without the use of a bow.”