¹ tn Or “pattern.”

¹ tn Or “pattern.”

¹ tn Or “pattern.”

⁴ tn Heb “carved [in] the pattern of a palace.”

⁴ tn Heb “he makes it like the pattern of a man”; NAB “like a man in appearance.”

² tn The disjunctive clause (note the vav [ו] + subject pattern) probably has a causal nuance here.

² tn Heb “the pattern of all which was in the spirit with him.”

² tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”

³ tn Heb “has not heard.” The perfect verb form has been chosen to emphasize the pattern that has been known from past experience. It implies that the pattern is unlikely to change.

³ sn Treating Paul kindly. Paul’s treatment followed the pattern of the earlier imprisonment (cf. Acts 24:23).

¹ sn The statement Hail, King of the Jews! is a mockery patterned after the Romans’ cry of Ave, Caesar (“Hail, Caesar!”).

⁶ sn The statement Hail, King of the Jews! is a mockery patterned after the Romans’ cry of Ave, Caesar (“Hail, Caesar!”).

³ tn Heb “has not listened.” The perfect verb has been chosen to emphasize the past pattern of the scoffer.

² tn Heb “a place of escape” (with this noun pattern). There is no place to escape to because they all perish.

¹ tn The disjunctive clause structure (note the pattern vav [ו] + subject + verb) here signals the beginning of a new scene.

⁸ tn The disjunctive clause (note the pattern vav [ו] + subject + verb) is circumstantial (or concessive) here (“even though”).

¹ sn Fitting the pattern emphasized earlier with Stephen and his speech in Acts 7, some Jews plotted to kill God’s messenger (cf. Luke 11:53-54).

² sn This has been the consistent pattern of their behavior. See 7:24; 9:13; 13:10; 16:12.

² tn Or “Make good your ways and your actions.” J. Bright’s translation (“Reform the whole pattern of your conduct”; Jeremiah [AB], 52) is excellent.

¹ sn The narrator supplies background information about the behavior patterns in this family which would routinely occur when they went to the tabernacle to worship on holy days.