³ tn Heb “and their shield.”

³ tn Heb “and their shield.”

² tn Heb “and their shield.”

¹ tn Heb “a shield round about me.”

³ tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”

² tn Or “shielding” (NIV); NASB “the screening veil.”

² tn Heb “[with] a shield.” By metonymy the “shield” stands for the soldier who carries it.

¹ sn The Hebrew text mentions two different types of shields here.

² tn Heb “[with] a shield” (so ASV, NASB, NRSV).

¹ tn Heb “The Lord [is] my strength and my shield.”

¹ tn The Hebrew text lists two different types of shields here. Most translations render “the large and small shields” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV; NEB “King David’s spears, shields, and bucklers”).

² tn Two different types of shields are specified in the Hebrew text.

¹ tn Heb “and you give to me the shield of your deliverance.”

¹ tn Heb “the sons of Judah, carrying shield and spear, [were] 6,800 armed for battle.”

² tn Or “shielding” (NIV); Heb “the veil of the covering” (cf. KJV).

³ tn Or “rosettes,” shield-like frames for the stones. The Hebrew word means “to plait, checker.”

¹ tn Two different types of shields are mentioned here. See also Ezek 38:4. Many modern translations render the first term (translated here “small shield”) as “buckler” (cf. NASB “buckler and shield”; the order is often reversed in the translation, apparently for stylistic reasons: cf. NEB, NIV84, NRSV “shield and buckler”). The English term “buckler,” referring to a small round shield held on the arm to protect the upper body, is unfamiliar to many modern readers, so the term “small shield” was used in the present translation for clarity.

¹ sn The noun “shield” recalls the words of Melchizedek in 14:20. If God is the shield, then God will deliver. Abram need not fear reprisals from those he has fought.

² tn Heb “shield and sword and battle.” “Battle” probably here stands by metonymy for the weapons of war in general.

² tn Heb “make them roam around by your strength and bring them down, O our shield, the Lord.”