² tn Heb “all its decision.”

³ tn Heb “for my decision is.”

⁴ tn Heb “[in] giving a decision.”

¹ tn Heb “a [legal] decision,” or “sentence.”

³ tn Heb “taste,” meaning “opinion” or “decision.”

¹ sn “Heart” is a metonymy of subject; it signifies the ability to make decisions, if not the decisions themselves.

² sn The owner’s decision to send his one dear son represents God sending Jesus.

¹ sn The owner’s decision to send his one dear son represents God sending Jesus.

¹ sn The owner’s decision to send his son represents God sending Jesus.

² tn Heb “make decisions with rectitude”; cf. ASV, NRSV “and decide with equity.”

¹ tn The verb means “change,” perhaps expressed in reversing decisions or removing rights.

¹ sn The heart is the seat of intelligence and understanding, the faculty of decision making.

¹ tn The words “if a decision is not made” are added for clarification.

³ sn The expected response would be anger or rage, but Jacob remained silent. He appears too indifferent or confused to act decisively. When the leader does not act decisively, the younger zealots will, and often with disastrous results.

⁴ tn On this term BDAG 203 s.v. γνώμη 4 states, “declaration, decision, resolution…of God Rv 17:17.”

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the manager’s decision.

³ tn Here “lot” may refer to the decision made by casting lots; it is not chosen at all.

⁴ tn The word חֹק (khoq) has the meanings of “decree, decision, and limit” (cf. Job 28:26; 38:10).

¹ tn Heb “and a porch for the throne, where he was making judicial decisions, the Porch of Judgment, he made.”

¹ tn Heb “oracle” (so NAB, NIV) or “decision”; TEV “the king speaks with divine authority.” The term קֶסֶם (qesem) is used in the sense of “oracle; decision; verdict” (HALOT 1115-16 s.v.). The pronouncements of a king form an oracular sentence, as if he speaks for God; they are divine decisions (e.g., Num 22:7; 23:23; 2 Sam 14:20).