³ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

¹ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

¹ tn Heb “burn and kindle the weapons.”

² tn Or “anger”; cf. KJV, ASV “the weapons of his indignation.”

² tn Heb “600 men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

⁴ sn These military weapons are examples of the metonymy of adjunct (the specific weapons named) for subject (warfare).

² tn Heb “the weapons that are in your hand.” Weapons stands here by substitution for the soldiers who wield them.

¹ tn Heb “as for a deceiver, his implements [or “weapons”] are evil.”

¹ tn Heb “and for him he has prepared the weapons of death.”

² tn Heb “were carrying loads.” The LXX reads ἐν ὅπλοις (en hoplois, “with weapons”).

³ tn The phrase “for the right hand and for the left” possibly refers to a combination of an offensive weapon (a sword for the right hand) and a defensive weapon (a shield for the left).

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

¹ sn The expression weapons of war may here be a figurative way of referring to Saul and Jonathan.

² tn Or “things”; or “weapons”; Heb “vessels,” which some understand as a reference to the soldiers’ bodies (so NIV).

¹ tn Heb “And the 600 men, equipped with the weapons of war…from the sons of Dan.”

¹ tn Grk “are not fleshly [weapons].” The repetition of the word “warfare” does not occur in the Greek text, but is supplied for clarity.

¹ tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious” but has the nuance “deadly” when used of weapons (see Ps 144:10).

¹ tn Heb “from Zebulun, those going out for battle, prepared for war with all weapons of war, 50,000, and to help without a heart and a heart.”

¹ tn Heb “They journeyed from there, from the tribe of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, 600 men, equipped with weapons of war.”

¹ tn The word usually means “vessels” but can have the sense of household goods and articles. It could be anything from jewels and ornaments to weapons or pottery.