² tn Or “during the night.”

¹ tn Heb “during the days.”

² tn Heb “in the days of” (again later in this verse). Cf. NASB “during the days of”; NIV “during the reigns of”; NLT “during the years when.”

¹ tn Heb “In his days [= during the time he rules].”

¹ tn Heb “during the evenings”; see Exod 12:6.

¹ tn The imperfect verb looks back to the view that they held during Jesus’ past ministry.

¹ sn Apparently work was prohibited during the new moon festival, just as it was on the Sabbath.

¹ sn The first month would be the month of Nisan, during which Passover was observed.

³ tn Heb “in this [i.e., “during this situation”] I am trusting.”

² sn Habakkuk uses similar language to describe his faith during difficult times. See Hab 3:19.

¹ tn Heb “On what are you trusting that [you] are living during the siege in Jerusalem.”

¹ tn Heb “in the menstruation of her impurity”; NIV “during the uncleanness of her monthly period.”

¹ tn On the translation “during the day” see BDAG 436 s.v. ἡμέρα 1.a, “But also, as in Thu. et al., of time within which someth. occurs, ἡμέρας during the day Rv 21:25.”

² tn Grk “the wadi of the Kidron,” or “the ravine of the Kidron” (a wadi is a stream that flows only during the rainy season and is dry during the dry season).

⁵ sn The worship of astral entities may have begun during the reign of Manasseh (2 Kgs 21:5).

¹ sn During the month Ziv. This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.

¹ sn The wheat harvest took place during the month of May. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 37, 88.

³ tn Grk “during forty days.” The phrase “over a forty-day period” is used rather than “during forty days” because (as the other NT accounts of Jesus’ appearances make clear) Jesus was not continually visible to the apostles during the forty days, but appeared to them on various occasions.

¹ sn Ben Hadad was a common name borne by a number of the kings of Damascus, e.g., one during the time of Asa around 900 b.c. (cf. 1 Kgs 15:18-20), one a little later during the time of Omri and Ahab around 850 (1 Kgs 20), and one during the time of Jehoash about 800 (2 Kgs 13:24-25).

⁴ sn The imagery here suggests that the things close to the sinners are contaminated by them, presumably during the process of sinning.