³ tn Or “kept.”

¹ tn Or “kept.”

⁵ tn Or “have kept.”

⁴ tn Or “if they kept.”

¹ tn Heb “kept from.”

¹ tn Heb “kept alive.”

¹ tn Grk “they kept on saying.”

¹ tn Or “he kept close company with.”

¹ tn Heb “the edicts of Omri are kept.”

¹ tn Heb “kept the poor from [their] desire.”

² tn Heb “and I, even I, kept you.”

¹ tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.”

³ tn Grk “needs, and I kept.” A new sentence was started here in the translation.

¹ tn Grk “kept on spreading”; the verb has been translated as a progressive imperfect.

¹ tn Or “kept increasing.” The imperfect tense suggests something of a progressive force to the verb.

¹ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

¹ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

³ tn Heb “you have kept the charge of the command of the Lord your God.”

² tn Or “soiled” (so NAB, NRSV, NIV); NCV “have kept their clothes unstained”; CEV “have not dirtied your clothes with sin.”

⁶ sn On the phrase his mother kept all these things in her heart compare Luke 2:19.