# footverse

bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.46.23" id="Ezek.46.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.23 </span><span class="fq">fires: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 23.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.47.13-Ezek.47.14" id="Ezek.47.13-Ezek.47.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">47.13,14 </span><span class="fq">the Joseph tribe: </span><span class="ft">That is, the two tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim, Joseph's sons.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.47.16" id="Ezek.47.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">47.15,16 </span><span class="fq">to Lebo-Hamath, then across to Zedad, </span><span class="fv">16 </span><span class="fq">Berothah: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “to Lebo-Zedad, </span><span class="fv">16 </span> then across to Hamath, Berothah.”</span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.47.17" id="Ezek.47.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">47.17 </span><span class="fq">which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.47.18" id="Ezek.47.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">47.18 </span><span class="fq">near the town of Tamar: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.48.9" id="Ezek.48.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.9 </span><span class="fq">ten: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “five” (but see 45.1 and the note there).</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.1.1" id="Dan.1.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim … king of Judah: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 609–598 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.1.2" id="Dan.1.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.2 </span><span class="fq">Babylonia: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Shinar,” another name for Babylonia.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.1.21" id="Dan.1.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.21 </span><span class="fq">first year of King Cyrus: </span><span class="ft">539 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.2.4" id="Dan.2.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.4 </span><span class="fq">Aramaic: </span><span class="ft">Chapter 2.4—7.28 is written in Aramaic, a language closely related to Hebrew.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.2.15" id="Dan.2.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.15 </span><span class="fq">cruel: </span><span class="ft">Or “urgent.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.2.26" id="Dan.2.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.26 </span><span class="fq">Daniel: </span><span class="ft">Aramaic “Daniel whose name was Belteshazzar” (see 1.7).</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.2.40" id="Dan.2.40!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.40 </span><span class="fq">crushing … everything: </span><span class="ft">Three ancient translations; Aramaic adds “and like iron crushing.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.3.25" id="Dan.3.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.25 </span><span class="fq">a god: </span><span class="ft">Aramaic “a son of the gods” or “a son of God.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.4.13" id="Dan.4.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.13 </span><span class="fq">angel: </span><span class="ft">The Aramaic text has “watcher,” which may be some special class of angel.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.4.16" id="Dan.4.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.16 </span><span class="fq">long years: </span><span class="ft">Aramaic “times.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.4.17" id="Dan.4.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.17 </span><span class="fq">angels: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 4.13.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.4.18" id="Dan.4.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.18 </span><span class="fq">Daniel: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.26.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.4.19" id="Dan.4.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.19 </span><span class="fq">Daniel: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.26.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.4.23" id="Dan.4.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.23 </span><span class="fq">angel: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 4.13.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.4.23" id="Dan.4.23!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.23 </span><span class="fq">years: </span><span class="ft">Aramaic “times.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.4.25" id="Dan.4.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.25 </span><span class="fq">years: </span><span class="ft">Aramaic “times.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.4.32" id="Dan.4.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.32 </span><span class="fq">years: </span><span class="ft">Aramaic “times.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.5.2" id="Dan.5.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.2 </span><span class="fq">his father Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">Belshazzar was actually the son of King Nabonidus, who was from another family. But in ancient times, it was possible to refer to a previous king as the “father” of the present king.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.5.25-Dan.5.28" id="Dan.5.25-Dan.5.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.25-28 </span><span class="fq">mene … tekel … parsin: </span><span class="ft">In the Aramaic text of verse 25, the words “mene, tekel, parsin,” are used, and in verses 26-28 the words “mene, tekel, peres” (the singular of “parsin”) are used. “Parsin” means “divided,” but “peres” can mean either “divided” or “Persia.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.6.28" id="Dan.6.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.28 </span><span class="fq">Cyrus the Persian ruled: </span><span class="ft">539–530 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.1-Dan.7.2" id="Dan.7.1-Dan.7.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.1,2 </span><span class="fq">first year of King Belshazzar: </span><span class="ft">554 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.5" id="Dan.7.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.5 </span><span class="fq">standing on its hind legs: </span><span class="ft">Or “higher on one side than the other” or “with a paw lifted up.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.9" id="Dan.7.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.9 </span><span class="fq">Eternal God: </span><span class="ft">Aramaic “Ancient of Days.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.10" id="Dan.7.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.10 </span><span class="fq">books: </span><span class="ft">Containing the record of the good and evil that each person has done.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.12" id="Dan.7.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.12 </span><span class="fq">a while longer: </span><span class="ft">Aramaic “for a time and a season.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.13" id="Dan.7.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.13 </span><span class="fq">son of man: </span><span class="ft">Or “human.” In Aramaic “son of man” may mean a human or even “oneself” (“I” or “me”). Jesus often used the phrase “the Son of Man” when referring to himself.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.7.13" id="Dan.7.13!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.13 </span><span class="fq">Eternal God: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 7.9.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.16" id="Dan.7.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.16 </span><span class="fq">one of those standing there: </span><span class="ft">Possibly an angel sent to interpret the visions or one of those thousands mentioned in verse 10.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.19" id="Dan.7.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.19 </span><span class="fq">fourth beast: </span><span class="ft">See verses 7,8.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.22" id="Dan.7.22!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.22 </span><span class="fq">Eternal God: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 7.9.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.7.25" id="Dan.7.25!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.25 </span><span class="fq">for … time: </span><span class="ft">Or “for a year, two years, and half a year.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.8.1" id="Dan.8.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.1 </span><span class="fq">third year … Babylonia: </span><span class="ft">552 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span>, two years after the first vision (see 7.1,2).</span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.8.2" id="Dan.8.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.2 </span><span class="fq">River: </span><span class="ft">Or “Gate.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.8.5" id="Dan.8.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.5 </span><span class="fq">powerful horn: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “horn of vision.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.8.6" id="Dan.8.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.6 </span><span class="fq">river: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.2.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.8.9" id="Dan.8.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.9 </span><span class="fq">holy land: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “the lovely land.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.8.10" id="Dan.8.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.10 </span><span class="fq">heaven's army: </span><span class="ft">In verses 10-13 the Hebrew word translated “heaven's army” may also mean “God's people.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.8.11-Dan.8.12" id="Dan.8.11-Dan.8.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.11,12 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “prince.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.8.16" id="Dan.8.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.16 </span><span class="fq">River: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.2.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.9.1-Dan.9.2" id="Dan.9.1-Dan.9.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.1,2 </span><span class="fq">Darius the Mede: </span><span class="ft">See 5.31.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.9.1-Dan.9.2" id="Dan.9.1-Dan.9.2!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.1,2 </span><span class="fq">Xerxes: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Ahasuerus.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.9.1-Dan.9.2" id="Dan.9.1-Dan.9.2!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.1,2 </span><span class="fq">70 years: </span><span class="ft">See Jeremiah 25.11-13; 29.10.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.9.3-Dan.9.4" id="Dan.9.3-Dan.9.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.3,4 </span><span class="fq">sackcloth: </span><span class="ft">A rough, dark-colored cloth made from goat or camel hair and used to make grain sacks. It was worn in times of trouble or sorrow.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.9.20" id="Dan.9.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.20 </span><span class="fq">holy mountain: </span><span class="ft">Jerusalem (see verse 16) or the temple.</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.9.24" id="Dan.9.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.24 </span><span class="fq">70 weeks: </span><span class="ft">Or “70 times 7 years.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.9.24" id="Dan.9.24!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.24 </span><span class="fq">a most holy place will be dedicated: </span><span class="ft">Or “God's Holy One will appear.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.9.25" id="Dan.9.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.25 </span><span class="fq">the Chosen Leader: </span><span class="ft">Or “a chosen leader.” In Hebrew the word “chosen” means “to pour oil (on someone's head).” In Old Testament times it was the custom to pour oil on a person's head when that person was chosen to be a priest or a king.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.9.25" id="Dan.9.25!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.25 </span><span class="fq">7 weeks and another 62 weeks: </span><span class="ft">Or “7 times 7 years and another 62 times 7 years.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.9.25" id="Dan.9.25!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.25 </span><span class="fq">it will be 7 … difficult times: </span><span class="ft">Or “it will be 7 weeks. Then streets will be built in Jerusalem, and a trench will be dug around the city for protection. But Jerusalem will have difficult times for 62 weeks.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.9.26" id="Dan.9.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.26 </span><span class="fq">62 weeks: </span><span class="ft">Or “62 times 7 years.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.9.26" id="Dan.9.26!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.26 </span><span class="fq">the Chosen Leader: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 9.25.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.9.26" id="Dan.9.26!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.26 </span><span class="fq">left with nothing: </span><span class="ft">Or “no one will take his place.”</span></span>


bookid: Dan
contenido:
<span verse_id="Dan.9.27" id="Dan.9.27!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.27 </span><span class="fq">one week: </span><span class="ft">Or “7 years.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.9.27" id="Dan.9.27!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.27 </span><span class="fq">this foreigner: </span><span class="ft">Or “the Chosen Leader.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Dan.9.27" id="Dan.9.27!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.27 </span><span class="fq">halfway through this week: </span><span class="ft">Or “for half of this week of 7 years.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.14" id="1Sam.14.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.14 </span><span class="fq">30 meters: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.15" id="1Sam.14.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.15 </span><span class="fq">Then … tremble: </span><span class="ft">Or “Then the ground began to tremble, and everyone was in a terrible panic.” Or “Then the ground began to tremble, and God made them all panic.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.16" id="1Sam.14.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.16 </span><span class="fq">Geba: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 14.1-3.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.18" id="1Sam.14.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.18 </span><span class="fq">At that time … should do: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Saul told Ahijah, ‘Bring the sacred chest,’ because at that time it was with the army of Israel.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.21" id="1Sam.14.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.21 </span><span class="fq">hired soldiers: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 13.7.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.23-1Sam.14.24" id="1Sam.14.23-1Sam.14.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.23,24 </span><span class="fq">Beth-Aven: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 13.5.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.25-1Sam.14.26" id="1Sam.14.25-1Sam.14.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.25,26 </span><span class="fq">The army … ground: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.31" id="1Sam.14.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.31 </span><span class="fq">Aijalon: </span><span class="ft">About 30 kilometers west of Michmash.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.32" id="1Sam.14.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.32 </span><span class="fq">blood: </span><span class="ft">The Israelites were supposed to drain the blood from a butchered animal before the meat was cooked and eaten (see Genesis 9.4; Leviticus 17.11; Deuteronomy 12.23).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.33" id="1Sam.14.33!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.33 </span><span class="fq">over here: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “today.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.34" id="1Sam.14.34!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.34 </span><span class="fq">kill … rock: </span><span class="ft">That is, up off the ground so the blood could drain out.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.35" id="1Sam.14.35!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.35 </span><span class="fq">offering sacrifices to the LORD: </span><span class="ft">Even when animals were killed for food, it was often done as a sacrifice to the LORD.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.41" id="1Sam.14.41!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.41 </span><span class="fq">why … Israel: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “give me an answer.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.47-1Sam.14.48" id="1Sam.14.47-1Sam.14.48!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.47,48 </span><span class="fq">won his battles: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “hurt them.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.49-1Sam.14.51" id="1Sam.14.49-1Sam.14.51!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.49-51 </span><span class="fq">Ishvi: </span><span class="ft">Also known as Eshbaal (see 1 Chronicles 8.33; 9.39) and Ishbosheth (see 2 Samuel 2.8-13; 3.8-15; 4.5-12).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.15.5" id="1Sam.15.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.5 </span><span class="fq">one … in: </span><span class="ft">Or “the town of.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.15.7" id="1Sam.15.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.7 </span><span class="fq">from Havilah: </span><span class="ft">Or “from the valley” (see 15.5).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.15.9" id="1Sam.15.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.9 </span><span class="fq">animals … weak: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.15.13" id="1Sam.15.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.13 </span><span class="fq">Saul: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation adds “Saul had sacrificed to the LORD the best animals they had taken from Amalek, when Samuel came up to him.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.15.21" id="1Sam.15.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.21 </span><span class="fq">animals … destroyed: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew means things that were set aside for God. They could not be used for anything else, so they had to be destroyed.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.15.29" id="1Sam.15.29!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.29 </span><span class="fq">eternal: </span><span class="ft">Or “glorious.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.15.32" id="1Sam.15.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.32 </span><span class="fq">in chains: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.15.32" id="1Sam.15.32!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.32 </span><span class="fq">Surely … now: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “It would have been better to die in battle!”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.16.1" id="1Sam.16.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.1 </span><span class="fq">olive oil: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 9.16.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.16.1" id="1Sam.16.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.1 </span><span class="fq">small container: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “horn”; animal horns were sometimes hollowed out and used as containers.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.16.3" id="1Sam.16.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.3 </span><span class="fq">sacrifice: </span><span class="ft">A sacrifice often involved a dinner where the meat from the sacrificed animal would be served.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.16.5" id="1Sam.16.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.5 </span><span class="fq">Get yourselves ready: </span><span class="ft">The people of Israel sometimes had to perform certain ceremonies to make themselves acceptable to God.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.16.12" id="1Sam.16.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.12 </span><span class="fq">olive oil on his head: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 9.16.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.16.20" id="1Sam.16.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.20 </span><span class="fq">wine: </span><span class="ft">Wine was sometimes kept in bottles made of goatskin sewn up with the fur on the outside.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.17.1" id="1Sam.17.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.1 </span><span class="fq">Socoh and Azekah: </span><span class="ft">Socoh was controlled by the Israelites, while Azekah was in Philistine hands.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.17.4" id="1Sam.17.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.4 </span><span class="fq">about three meters: </span><span class="ft">The Standard Hebrew Text; the Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of one ancient translation have “about two meters.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.17.52" id="1Sam.17.52!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.52 </span><span class="fq">Gath: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “a valley.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.18.1" id="1Sam.18.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.1 </span><span class="fq">Jonathan: </span><span class="ft">Saul's oldest son (see chapter 14).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.18.4" id="1Sam.18.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.4 </span><span class="fq">military clothes: </span><span class="ft">Or “armor.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.18.16" id="1Sam.18.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.16 </span><span class="fq">was loyal to: </span><span class="ft">Or “loved.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.18.22-1Sam.18.23" id="1Sam.18.22-1Sam.18.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.22,23 </span><span class="fq">not rich: </span><span class="ft">It was the custom for a man to give the bride's father some silver or gold in order to marry his daughter, and it would take a large amount to marry the daughter of the king.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.18.25" id="1Sam.18.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.25 </span><span class="fq">proof … Philistines: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “100 Philistine foreskins.” In ancient times soldiers would sometimes cut off body parts of their dead enemies to prove how many they had killed.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.18.28" id="1Sam.18.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.28 </span><span class="fq">she … David: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “all Israel was loyal to David.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.19.12" id="1Sam.19.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.12 </span><span class="fq">ground: </span><span class="ft">The house was probably built into the town wall, allowing David to come down outside the wall.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.19.18" id="1Sam.19.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.18 </span><span class="fq">Prophets Village: </span><span class="ft">Or “Naioth.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.19.22" id="1Sam.19.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.22 </span><span class="fq">pit: </span><span class="ft">A cistern, a large pit dug down into the rock and used for storing rainwater.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.20.5" id="1Sam.20.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.5 </span><span class="fq">New Moon Festival: </span><span class="ft">The first day of the month, when Israelites offered special sacrifices to the LORD and had special sacred meals.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.20.16" id="1Sam.20.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.16 </span><span class="fq">Jonathan … keep: </span><span class="ft">Or, continuing Jonathan's statement to David, “You and your descendants must not kill off my descendants.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.20.16" id="1Sam.20.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.16 </span><span class="fq">I pray … promise: </span><span class="ft">Or “I pray that the LORD take revenge on you if you break our promise!”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.20.19" id="1Sam.20.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.19 </span><span class="fq">By … time: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.20.19" id="1Sam.20.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.19 </span><span class="fq">Going-Away Rock: </span><span class="ft">Or “Ezel Rock”; one ancient translation “that mound” (see 20.41).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.20.25" id="1Sam.20.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.25 </span><span class="fq">sat … him: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “stood up.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.20.26" id="1Sam.20.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.26 </span><span class="fq">unfit … Festival: </span><span class="ft">During the New Moon Festival a sacred meal was served that could only be eaten by people who were properly prepared. Some of the things that could make a person unfit are listed in Leviticus 7.20,21; 15.2,31; 22.4-8; Deuteronomy 23.10,11.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.20.34" id="1Sam.20.34!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.34 </span><span class="fq">insulted David: </span><span class="ft">Or “insulted him” (that is, Jonathan).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.20.41" id="1Sam.20.41!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.41 </span><span class="fq">the mound: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “from the south side.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.20.41" id="1Sam.20.41!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.41 </span><span class="fq">kissed: </span><span class="ft">A common way of greeting or saying goodbye in biblical times (see Mark 14.44).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.21.4" id="1Sam.21.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.4 </span><span class="fq">night: </span><span class="ft">Having sex was one of the things that would make someone temporarily unfit to take part in worship or a sacred meal (see Exodus 19.15; Leviticus 15.18).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.21.7" id="1Sam.21.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.7 </span><span class="fq">Edomite: </span><span class="ft">A person from the country of Edom, to the south of Israel.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.21.7" id="1Sam.21.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.7 </span><span class="fq">the strongest of: </span><span class="ft">Or “in charge of.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.21.10" id="1Sam.21.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.10 </span><span class="fq">Gath: </span><span class="ft">One of the five main Philistine towns.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.22.7" id="1Sam.22.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.7 </span><span class="fq">You … Benjamin tribe: </span><span class="ft">David was from the Judah tribe and would have given special privileges to the people of his own tribe rather than to those of Benjamin.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.22.8" id="1Sam.22.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.7,8 </span><span class="fq">son of Jesse … officers: </span><span class="ft">That is, David. Saul avoids even saying David's name.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.23.3" id="1Sam.23.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.3 </span><span class="fq">Keilah: </span><span class="ft">Keilah was probably not controlled by Israelites at this time.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.23.15" id="1Sam.23.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.15 </span><span class="fq">He … because: </span><span class="ft">Or “He saw that.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.23.19" id="1Sam.23.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.19 </span><span class="fq">Jeshimon: </span><span class="ft">A place in the desert near the southern border of Judah.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.24.4" id="1Sam.24.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.4 </span><span class="fq">small piece: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “corner” or “lower hem.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.25.1" id="1Sam.25.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.1 </span><span class="fq">at his home: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “in his house.” Family tombs were sometimes underneath the house or in the courtyard of the home.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.25.1" id="1Sam.25.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.1 </span><span class="fq">Paran Desert: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some manuscripts of one ancient translation “Maon Desert.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.25.2-1Sam.25.3" id="1Sam.25.2-1Sam.25.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.2,3 </span><span class="fq">Carmel: </span><span class="ft">About one and a half kilometers north of Maon in the Southern Desert of Judah.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.25.2-1Sam.25.3" id="1Sam.25.2-1Sam.25.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.2,3 </span><span class="fq">from the Caleb clan: </span><span class="ft">Or “behaved like a dog.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.25.8" id="1Sam.25.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.8 </span><span class="fq">celebrating: </span><span class="ft">Cutting the wool from the sheep was a time for celebrating as well as for working.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.25.11" id="1Sam.25.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.11 </span><span class="fq">servants: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “shearers,” the servants who cut the wool from the sheep.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.25.11" id="1Sam.25.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.11 </span><span class="fq">I'm not sure … sent you: </span><span class="ft">Or “I don't know where you come from.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.25.22" id="1Sam.25.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.22 </span><span class="fq">me: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “my enemies.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.25.43" id="1Sam.25.43!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.43 </span><span class="fq">wives: </span><span class="ft">Having more than one wife was allowed in those times.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.25.44" id="1Sam.25.44!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.44 </span><span class="fq">Michal: </span><span class="ft">David's first wife (see 18.20—19.17).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.26.1" id="1Sam.26.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.1 </span><span class="fq">again: </span><span class="ft">See 23.19.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.26.6" id="1Sam.26.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.6 </span><span class="fq">Abishai: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Abishai the son of Zeruiah.” Zeruiah was David's older sister, so Abishai and Joab were David's nephews (see 1 Chronicles 2.12-17; 2 Samuel 17.25 and the note there).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.26.15" id="1Sam.26.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.15 </span><span class="fq">Anyone … tonight: </span><span class="ft">Or “Someone went into your camp to kill him tonight.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.26.19" id="1Sam.26.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.19 </span><span class="fq">gods: </span><span class="ft">In ancient times it was often believed that gods (even the God of Israel) could only be properly worshiped in their own countries, and only a country's gods should be worshiped in that country.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.27.8" id="1Sam.27.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">27.8 </span><span class="fq">lived … Shur: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “had lived for a long time in Shur.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.27.10" id="1Sam.27.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">27.10 </span><span class="fq">Where … today: </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and three ancient translations; most Hebrew manuscripts “Didn't you make a raid today?”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.27.10" id="1Sam.27.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">27.10 </span><span class="fq">Jerahmeel … Kenites: </span><span class="ft">These were clans of the Judah tribe.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.28.1-1Sam.28.3" id="1Sam.28.1-1Sam.28.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">28.1-3 </span><span class="fq">earlier: </span><span class="ft">See 25.1.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.28.1-1Sam.28.3" id="1Sam.28.1-1Sam.28.3!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">28.1-3 </span><span class="fq">dead: </span><span class="ft">Many people believed that it was possible to talk to spirits of the dead, and that these spirits could tell the future.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.28.24" id="1Sam.28.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">28.24 </span><span class="fq">thin bread: </span><span class="ft">Bread made without yeast, since there was no time for the bread to rise.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.29.1" id="1Sam.29.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.1 </span><span class="fq">Aphek: </span><span class="ft">The events of chapter 29 probably took place as the Philistine army was on its way to Shunem, which they reached in 28.4.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.29.8" id="1Sam.29.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.8 </span><span class="fq">my king: </span><span class="ft">David may be referring to either Saul or Achish.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.29.10" id="1Sam.29.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.10 </span><span class="fq">go … you: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; these words are not in the Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.29.10" id="1Sam.29.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.10 </span><span class="fq">I'm pleased … bother you: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; these words are not in the Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.30.17" id="1Sam.30.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">30.17 </span><span class="fq">just … sunset: </span><span class="ft">Or “at dusk, and fought until sunset on the next day.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.30.27-1Sam.30.31" id="1Sam.30.27-1Sam.30.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">30.27-31 </span><span class="fq">Bethel: </span><span class="ft">Or “Bethuel” (see Joshua 19.4).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.31.7" id="1Sam.31.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.7 </span><span class="fq">Jezreel Valley: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “valley.” Shunem (see 28.4) and Gilboa (see verse 1) were across the Jezreel Valley from each other.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.1.2" id="2Sam.1.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.2 </span><span class="fq">His clothes … his head: </span><span class="ft">People tore their clothes and put dirt on their heads to show they were sad because someone had died.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.1.9" id="2Sam.1.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.9 </span><span class="fq">in terrible pain: </span><span class="ft">Or “very weak.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.1.18" id="2Sam.1.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.18 </span><span class="fq">The Book of Jashar: </span><span class="ft">This book may have been a collection of ancient war songs.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.1.21" id="2Sam.1.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.21 </span><span class="fq">Don't let its fields … for God: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.1.21" id="2Sam.1.21!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.21 </span><span class="fq">unpolished: </span><span class="ft">Some shields were made of leather and were polished with olive oil.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.1.26" id="2Sam.1.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.26 </span><span class="fq">You … husband: </span><span class="ft">Or “You loved me more than a wife could possibly love her husband.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.1.27" id="2Sam.1.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.27 </span><span class="fq">weapons: </span><span class="ft">This may refer to Saul and Jonathan.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.2.8" id="2Sam.2.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.8 </span><span class="fq">son of Ner: </span><span class="ft">Abner was Saul's cousin (see 1 Samuel 14.50).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.2.8" id="2Sam.2.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.8 </span><span class="fq">Ishbosheth: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation has “Ishbaal” (see also 1 Chronicles 8.33). In Hebrew “baal” means “lord” and was used as the name of a Canaanite god. The people of Israel often changed “baal” to “bosheth” (which means “shame”) in personal names. Ishbosheth was probably called Ishvi or Ishyo in 1 Samuel 14.49.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.2.9" id="2Sam.2.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.9 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">Sometimes “Israel” means the northern tribes and does not include the tribes of Judah and Simeon. That is how it is used in this verse.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.2.9" id="2Sam.2.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.9 </span><span class="fq">Asher: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Ashur,” which is the Hebrew name for the Assyrians. It may be another spelling for Asher (one of the tribes of Israel) or it may refer to Geshur (a small area between Gilead and Jezreel, east of Lake Galilee).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.2.12" id="2Sam.2.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.12 </span><span class="fq">Ishbosheth: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.8.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.2.13" id="2Sam.2.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">the son of Zeruiah: </span><span class="ft">Zeruiah was David's older sister, so Joab was David's nephew (see 1 Chronicles 2.12-17 and the note at 2 Samuel 17.25).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.2.13" id="2Sam.2.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">pool in Gibeon: </span><span class="ft">This pool was located just inside the city wall and was used for storing water. It was in the shape of a circle and was eleven meters wide and eleven meters deep.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.2.16" id="2Sam.2.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.16 </span><span class="fq">Field of Daggers: </span><span class="ft">Or “Field of Opponents” or “Battlefield.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.2.29" id="2Sam.2.29!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.29 </span><span class="fq">all morning: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.3.7" id="2Sam.3.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.7 </span><span class="fq">wife: </span><span class="ft">This translates a Hebrew word for a woman who was legally bound to a man, but without the full privileges of a wife.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.3.7" id="2Sam.3.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.7 </span><span class="fq">Ishbosheth: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.8.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.3.10" id="2Sam.3.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.10 </span><span class="fq">from … south: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “from Dan to Beersheba.” This was one way of describing all of the Israelite land, from north to south.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.3.14" id="2Sam.3.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.14 </span><span class="fq">I killed … marry her: </span><span class="ft">See 1 Samuel 18.20-27.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.3.26" id="2Sam.3.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.26 </span><span class="fq">well at Sirah: </span><span class="ft">Or “oasis of Sirah” or “cistern at Sirah.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.3.29" id="2Sam.3.29!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.29 </span><span class="fq">cowards: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.3.31" id="2Sam.3.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.31 </span><span class="fq">sackcloth: </span><span class="ft">Sackcloth was a rough, dark-colored cloth made from goat or camel hair and was used to make grain sacks. People wore sackcloth or tore their clothes in times of trouble or sorrow.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.3.33" id="2Sam.3.33!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.33 </span><span class="fq">outlaw: </span><span class="ft">Or “fool.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.3.39" id="2Sam.3.39!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.39 </span><span class="fq">God … back: </span><span class="ft">Or “I pray that God will pay them back.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.4.1" id="2Sam.4.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.1 </span><span class="fq">Ishbosheth: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “The Son of Saul.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.4.3" id="2Sam.4.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.3 </span><span class="fq">live: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word means that they did not have the full legal rights of citizens.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.4.4" id="2Sam.4.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.4 </span><span class="fq">Mephibosheth: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of one ancient translation have “Mephibaal.” In 1 Chronicles 8.34 and 9.40 he is called “Meribbaal.” See the note on “baal” and “bosheth” at 2.8.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.4.4" id="2Sam.4.4!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.4 </span><span class="fq">Saul … died: </span><span class="ft">See 1 Samuel 31.1-6.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.5.7-2Sam.5.9" id="2Sam.5.7-2Sam.5.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.7-9 </span><span class="fq">You will … them: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.5.7-2Sam.5.9" id="2Sam.5.7-2Sam.5.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.7-9 </span><span class="fq">temple: </span><span class="ft">Or “palace.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.5.13" id="2Sam.5.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.13 </span><span class="fq">married many women: </span><span class="ft">Some of these women were second-class wives (see the note at 3.7).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.5.13" id="2Sam.5.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.13 </span><span class="fq">from Jerusalem: </span><span class="ft">Or “in Jerusalem.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.5.16" id="2Sam.5.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.16 </span><span class="fq">Eliada: </span><span class="ft">See 1 Chronicles 3.6-8. First Chronicles 14.7 has “Beeliada.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.5.17" id="2Sam.5.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.17 </span><span class="fq">fortress: </span><span class="ft">Probably the fortress of Adullam, which was David's former hideout (see 1 Samuel 22.1,4; 24.22). Or it could refer to the older walled city of Jerusalem, called the “fortress on Mount Zion” in verses 7-9.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.5.18" id="2Sam.5.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.18 </span><span class="fq">Rephaim Valley: </span><span class="ft">A few kilometers southwest of Jerusalem.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.5.20" id="2Sam.5.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.20 </span><span class="fq">The Lord Broke Through: </span><span class="ft">Or “Baal-Perazim.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.5.23" id="2Sam.5.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.23 </span><span class="fq">balsam: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.6.2" id="2Sam.6.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.2 </span><span class="fq">to Baalah … there: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and 1 Chronicles 13.6; the Standard Hebrew Text “from Baalah in Judah. They had gone there.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.6.2" id="2Sam.6.2!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.2 </span><span class="fq">winged creatures: </span><span class="ft">Two golden statues of winged creatures were on top of the sacred chest and were symbols of the LORD's throne on earth (see Exodus 25.18).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.6.2" id="2Sam.6.2!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.2 </span><span class="fq">he is worshiped there: </span><span class="ft">Or “the chest belongs to him.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.6.4" id="2Sam.6.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.3,4 </span><span class="fq">Ahio … Ahio: </span><span class="ft">Or “his brother … his brother.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.6.8" id="2Sam.6.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.8 </span><span class="fq">Bursting … Uzzah: </span><span class="ft">Or “Perez-Uzzah.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.6.10" id="2Sam.6.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.10 </span><span class="fq">Gath: </span><span class="ft">Or perhaps, “Gittaim.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.6.14" id="2Sam.6.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.14 </span><span class="fq">only a linen cloth: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word is “ephod,” which can mean either a piece of clothing like a skirt that went from the waist to the knee or a garment like a vest or a jacket that only the priests wore.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.6.17" id="2Sam.6.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.17 </span><span class="fq">sacrificing … altar: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew mentions two kinds of sacrifices. In one kind of sacrifice, the whole animal was burned on the altar. In the other kind, only part was burned, and the worshipers ate the rest, as in verse 19 (see Leviticus 1.2-17; 3.1-17).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.7.19" id="2Sam.7.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.19 </span><span class="fq">Is this … people: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.7.23" id="2Sam.7.23!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.23 </span><span class="fq">You … here: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.8.1" id="2Sam.8.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.1 </span><span class="fq">Israel … control: </span><span class="ft">Or “David also took the town of Metheg-Ammah away from them.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.8.3" id="2Sam.8.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.3 </span><span class="fq">monument: </span><span class="ft">Kings sometimes set up monuments in lands they had conquered.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.8.3" id="2Sam.8.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.3 </span><span class="fq">David … way: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. It may have been Hadadezer who was going to the Euphrates River. And he may have gone there either to build a monument or to put down a rebellion.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.8.4" id="2Sam.8.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.4 </span><span class="fq">1,700 cavalry: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation and 1 Chronicles 18.4 “1,000 chariots and 7,000 cavalry.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.8.4" id="2Sam.8.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.4 </span><span class="fq">He also captured … them: </span><span class="ft">Or “He crippled all but 100 of the horses.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.8.7" id="2Sam.8.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.7 </span><span class="fq">Hadadezer's … cases: </span><span class="ft">Or “Hadadezer's soldiers carried gold shields, but David took these shields.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.8.9-2Sam.8.10" id="2Sam.8.9-2Sam.8.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.9,10 </span><span class="fq">defeated: </span><span class="ft">Or “killed.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.8.12" id="2Sam.8.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.12 </span><span class="fq">Edom: </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and two ancient translations (see also 1 Chronicles 18.11); most Hebrew manuscripts “Aram.” In Hebrew the words for “Edom” and “Aram” look almost alike.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.8.13" id="2Sam.8.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.13 </span><span class="fq">Edomite: </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and two ancient translations (see also 1 Chronicles 18.12); most Hebrew manuscripts “Aramean.” In Hebrew the words for “Edomite” and “Aramean” look almost alike.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.8.13" id="2Sam.8.13!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.13 </span><span class="fq">built a monument: </span><span class="ft">Or “was famous.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.8.17" id="2Sam.8.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.17 </span><span class="fq">Abiathar the son of Ahimelech: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation and 1 Samuel 22.11-23; Hebrew “Ahimelech the son of Abiathar.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.8.18" id="2Sam.8.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.18 </span><span class="fq">was the commander of: </span><span class="ft">Not in the Hebrew text of this verse, but see 1 Chronicles 18.17.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.8.18" id="2Sam.8.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.18 </span><span class="fq">David's bodyguard: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “the Cherethites and the Pelethites,” who were foreign soldiers hired by David to be his bodyguard.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.9.5-2Sam.9.6" id="2Sam.9.5-2Sam.9.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.5,6 </span><span class="fq">Mephibosheth: </span><span class="ft">Or “Mephibaal” (see the note at 4.4).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.9.10" id="2Sam.9.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.10 </span><span class="fq">Saul's family and servants: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of one ancient translation; Hebrew “the son of your master.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.9.11-2Sam.9.13" id="2Sam.9.11-2Sam.9.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.11-13 </span><span class="fq">David's: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “my.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.10.18" id="2Sam.10.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.18 </span><span class="fq">cavalry: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew manuscripts and ancient translations differ as to how many and what kind of soldiers were killed.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.11.1" id="2Sam.11.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.1 </span><span class="fq">when … war: </span><span class="ft">Or “when the messengers had gone to Ammon” (see 10.2) or “the time when the kings had gone to war” (see 10.6-8).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.11.2-2Sam.11.4" id="2Sam.11.2-2Sam.11.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.2-4 </span><span class="fq">as … required: </span><span class="ft">This bathing was often a requirement for worshiping God.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.11.8" id="2Sam.11.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.8 </span><span class="fq">and clean up: </span><span class="ft">Or “and sleep with your wife.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.11.11" id="2Sam.11.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.11 </span><span class="fq">somewhere in the fields: </span><span class="ft">Or “at Succoth.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.11.21" id="2Sam.11.21!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.21 </span><span class="fq">Gideon: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has Jerubbesheth, which stands for “Jerubbaal,” another name for Gideon. See Judges 6.32 and the note on “bosheth” at 2.8 (“besheth” means the same as “bosheth”).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.11.25" id="2Sam.11.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.25 </span><span class="fq">break … walls: </span><span class="ft">Or “destroy it.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.12.13-2Sam.12.14" id="2Sam.12.13-2Sam.12.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.13,14 </span><span class="fq">what … wanted: </span><span class="ft">One manuscript of one ancient translation; one Hebrew manuscript “what the LORD had said”; most Hebrew manuscripts “what the enemies of the LORD would think.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.12.25" id="2Sam.12.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.25 </span><span class="fq">Jedidiah: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew this name means “Loved by the LORD.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.12.30" id="2Sam.12.30!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.30 </span><span class="fq">the statue of their god Milcom: </span><span class="ft">Or “their king.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.12.30" id="2Sam.12.30!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.30 </span><span class="fq">David … crown: </span><span class="ft">Or “and David wore the crown.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.12.31" id="2Sam.12.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.31 </span><span class="fq">tear … walls: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.1" id="2Sam.13.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.1 </span><span class="fq">Tamar … Absalom … Amnon: </span><span class="ft">David was their father, but Amnon had a different mother.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.6" id="2Sam.13.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.6 </span><span class="fq">special bread: </span><span class="ft">Or “heart-shaped bread” or “dumplings.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.18" id="2Sam.13.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.18 </span><span class="fq">long … sleeves: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.21" id="2Sam.13.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.21 </span><span class="fq">But Amnon … unhappy: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation; these words are not in the Standard Hebrew Text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.23" id="2Sam.13.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.23 </span><span class="fq">invited … there: </span><span class="ft">Cutting the wool from sheep was a time for celebrating as well as working.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.27" id="2Sam.13.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.27 </span><span class="fq">Absalom prepared … king: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; these words are not in the Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.32" id="2Sam.13.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.32 </span><span class="fq">David's nephew: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “the son of David's brother Shimeah.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.34" id="2Sam.13.34!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.34 </span><span class="fq">the road to Horonaim: </span><span class="ft">Or “the road behind him” or “the road to the west.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.13.34" id="2Sam.13.34!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.34 </span><span class="fq">He … Road: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; these words are not in the Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.37-2Sam.13.38" id="2Sam.13.37-2Sam.13.38!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.37,38 </span><span class="fq">King Talmai: </span><span class="ft">Absalom's grandfather (see 3.3).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.13.39" id="2Sam.13.39!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.39 </span><span class="fq">David … Absalom: </span><span class="ft">Or “David was comforted over the loss of Amnon, and he no longer wanted to take his army there and capture Absalom.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.14.9" id="2Sam.14.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.9 </span><span class="fq">I hope … me: </span><span class="ft">Or “May I speak some more?”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.14.14" id="2Sam.14.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.14 </span><span class="fq">take our lives: </span><span class="ft">Or “make any exceptions.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.14.16" id="2Sam.14.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.16 </span><span class="fq">take … us: </span><span class="ft">Or “make sure we have no part in God's people.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.2" id="2Sam.15.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.2 </span><span class="fq">the city gate: </span><span class="ft">Or “the entrance to the king's palace.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.7" id="2Sam.15.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.7 </span><span class="fq">Four years: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Forty years.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.8" id="2Sam.15.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.8 </span><span class="fq">in Hebron: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of one ancient translation; these words are not in the Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.16-2Sam.15.17" id="2Sam.15.16-2Sam.15.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.16,17 </span><span class="fq">wives: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 3.7.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.18" id="2Sam.15.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.18 </span><span class="fq">bodyguards: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.18.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.15.18" id="2Sam.15.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.18 </span><span class="fq">the 600 … Gath: </span><span class="ft">These were Philistine soldiers who were loyal to David.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.20" id="2Sam.15.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.20 </span><span class="fq">I pray … be: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; these words are not in the Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.23" id="2Sam.15.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.23 </span><span class="fq">Kidron Valley: </span><span class="ft">This was considered the eastern boundary of Jerusalem.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.27" id="2Sam.15.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.27 </span><span class="fq">you … things: </span><span class="ft">Or “You are a prophet” or “You are not a prophet.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.32" id="2Sam.15.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.32 </span><span class="fq">Archite: </span><span class="ft">The Archites were part of the tribe of Benjamin (see Joshua 16.2).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.15.32" id="2Sam.15.32!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.32 </span><span class="fq">Hushai's … head: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.2.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.15.33" id="2Sam.15.33!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.33 </span><span class="fq">you might slow us down: </span><span class="ft">Hushai was probably very old.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.16.1" id="2Sam.16.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.1 </span><span class="fq">chief servant of Mephibosheth: </span><span class="ft">See 9.1-13.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.16.1" id="2Sam.16.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.1 </span><span class="fq">figs: </span><span class="ft">Or “pomegranates,” a bright red fruit that looks like an apple.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.16.14" id="2Sam.16.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.14 </span><span class="fq">they: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “he.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.16.21" id="2Sam.16.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.21 </span><span class="fq">wives: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 3.7.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.17.3" id="2Sam.17.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.3 </span><span class="fq">back to you … husband: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “back to you. The man you are chasing is like bringing back the whole nation.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.17.17" id="2Sam.17.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.17 </span><span class="fq">Jonathan and Ahimaaz: </span><span class="ft">See 15.27.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.17.17" id="2Sam.17.17!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.17 </span><span class="fq">Rogel Spring: </span><span class="ft">South of Jerusalem in Kidron Valley.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.17.19" id="2Sam.17.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.19 </span><span class="fq">The man's wife … seen: </span><span class="ft">Everyone would have thought that the woman was drying grain on a mat that she had spread on the ground.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.17.25" id="2Sam.17.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.25 </span><span class="fq">Ithra: </span><span class="ft">Or “Jether.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.17.25" id="2Sam.17.25!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.25 </span><span class="fq">the family of Ishmael: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of one ancient translation; other manuscripts of the same translation “the town of Jezreel”; Hebrew “the people of Israel.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.17.25" id="2Sam.17.25!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.25 </span><span class="fq">Amasa … Abigal: </span><span class="ft">Abigal and Zeruiah (Joab's mother) were full sisters, and David was evidently their half-brother with the same mother, but a different father. This made Amasa one of David's nephews (see 1 Chronicles 2.12-17).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.17.27" id="2Sam.17.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.27 </span><span class="fq">Shobi … Ammon: </span><span class="ft">Shobi was probably the new king of the Ammonites that David had appointed after he captured Rabbah (see 2 Samuel 10.1-3; 12.26-31).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.18.7-2Sam.18.8" id="2Sam.18.7-2Sam.18.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.7,8 </span><span class="fq">Twenty … killed: </span><span class="ft">This may refer to the total number or to the number of Absalom's soldiers who were killed.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.18.9" id="2Sam.18.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.9 </span><span class="fq">head: </span><span class="ft">Or “hair.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.18.18" id="2Sam.18.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.18 </span><span class="fq">I don't have any sons: </span><span class="ft">According to 14.27, Absalom had three sons. But they could have died young or been put to death for Absalom's murder of Amnon.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.18.18" id="2Sam.18.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.18 </span><span class="fq">today: </span><span class="ft">That is, at the time of writing. This monument is not the same as the structure now known as “Absalom's Tomb,” which was built at least 600 years later.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.18.21" id="2Sam.18.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.21 </span><span class="fq">Ethiopia: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Cush,” which was a region south of Egypt that included parts of the present countries of Ethiopia and Sudan.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.18.24" id="2Sam.18.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.24 </span><span class="fq">between … gates: </span><span class="ft">The city gate was often like a tower in the city wall, with one gate on the outside of the wall and another gate on the inside of the wall.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.18.33" id="2Sam.18.33!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.33 </span><span class="fq">son: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew, this verse is 19.1.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.19.16" id="2Sam.19.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.16 </span><span class="fq">Shimei: </span><span class="ft">See 16.5-13.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.19.17" id="2Sam.19.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.17 </span><span class="fq">waded across: </span><span class="ft">Or “rushed.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.19.26" id="2Sam.19.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.26 </span><span class="fq">I told … me: </span><span class="ft">Two ancient translations; Hebrew, “I said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself.’ ”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.19.29" id="2Sam.19.29!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.29 </span><span class="fq">the property: </span><span class="ft">The property that had belonged to Saul (see 9.7; 16.4).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.19.37" id="2Sam.19.37!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.37 </span><span class="fq">My servant Chimham: </span><span class="ft">Or “My son Chimham.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.19.43" id="2Sam.19.43!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.43 </span><span class="fq">King David … you: </span><span class="ft">In this verse “Israel” stands for the ten northern tribes and does not include the tribe of Judah in the south.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.20.3" id="2Sam.20.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.3 </span><span class="fq">he … again: </span><span class="ft">Because of what Absalom had done (see 16.21,22).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.20.6" id="2Sam.20.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.6 </span><span class="fq">get … us: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.20.7" id="2Sam.20.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.7 </span><span class="fq">bodyguard: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.18.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.20.14" id="2Sam.20.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.14 </span><span class="fq">best soldiers: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; the difficult Hebrew text may mean either “Berites” or “Bichrites,” Sheba's relatives.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.20.16" id="2Sam.20.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.16 </span><span class="fq">the top of the wall: </span><span class="ft">Or “the town.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.20.23" id="2Sam.20.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.23 </span><span class="fq">Another List of David's Officials: </span><span class="ft">See also the list in 8.16,17.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Sam.20.23" id="2Sam.20.23!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.23 </span><span class="fq">David's bodyguard: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.18.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.20.24" id="2Sam.20.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.24 </span><span class="fq">Adoram: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation “Adoniram” (see 1 Kings 4.1-6; 5.14).</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.21.2" id="2Sam.21.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.2 </span><span class="fq">promised … them: </span><span class="ft">See Joshua 9.3-27.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.21.3" id="2Sam.21.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.3 </span><span class="fq">ask … again: </span><span class="ft">Saul's guilt had become a curse on Israel that had resulted in famine. For the effects of this curse to be removed, the Gibeonites would have to ask the LORD to be kind to Israel.</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.21.4" id="2Sam.21.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.4 </span><span class="fq">I'll … ask: </span><span class="ft">Or “What are you asking me to do for you?”</span></span>


bookid: 2Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Sam.21.6" id="2Sam.21.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.6 </span><span class="fq">hang: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.35.6" id="Jer.35.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">35.6 </span><span class="fq">Jonadab son of Rechab: </span><span class="ft">See 2 Kings 10.15-23. In the Hebrew of this chapter, “Jonadab” is sometimes spelled “Jehonadab.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.35.11" id="Jer.35.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">35.11 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.1" id="Jer.36.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.1 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.36.1" id="Jer.36.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.1 </span><span class="fq">Josiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 3.6.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.2" id="Jer.36.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.2 </span><span class="fq">scroll: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 30.1,2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.6" id="Jer.36.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.6 </span><span class="fq">to go without eating: </span><span class="ft">As a way of asking for God's help.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.8-Jer.36.10" id="Jer.36.8-Jer.36.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.8-10 </span><span class="fq">ninth month: </span><span class="ft">Chislev, the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-November to mid-December.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.36.8-Jer.36.10" id="Jer.36.8-Jer.36.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.8-10 </span><span class="fq">Gemariah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Gemariah son of Shaphan”; Gemariah's brother Ahikam had earlier protected Jeremiah (see 26.20-24).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.12" id="Jer.36.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.12 </span><span class="fq">Delaiah, Elnathan, and Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, and Zedekiah son of Hananiah.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.14" id="Jer.36.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.14 </span><span class="fq">Jehudi and Shelemiah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Jehudi son of Nethaniah and Shelemiah son of Cushi.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.20-Jer.36.22" id="Jer.36.20-Jer.36.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.20-22 </span><span class="fq">ninth month: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 36.8-10.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.36.20-Jer.36.22" id="Jer.36.20-Jer.36.22!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.20-22 </span><span class="fq">fireplace: </span><span class="ft">Probably a large metal or clay pot on a movable stand, with the fire burning inside.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.23-Jer.36.25" id="Jer.36.23-Jer.36.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.23-25 </span><span class="fq">they did not tear their clothes in sorrow: </span><span class="ft">Such actions would have shown that they were sorry for disobeying the LORD and were turning back to him.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.26" id="Jer.36.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.26 </span><span class="fq">Seraiah and Shelemiah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.36.26" id="Jer.36.26!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.26 </span><span class="fq">me: </span><span class="ft">Jeremiah.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.36.27" id="Jer.36.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.27 </span><span class="fq">scroll: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 30.1,2.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.36.27" id="Jer.36.27!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">36.27 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.37.1" id="Jer.37.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.1 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.37.1" id="Jer.37.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.1 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Coniah” (see the note at 22.24).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.37.1" id="Jer.37.1!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.1 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.37.1" id="Jer.37.1!f.5" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.1 </span><span class="fq">Josiah's: </span><span class="ft">Josiah was the father of both Jehoiakim and Zedekiah. Josiah ruled 640–609 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.37.1" id="Jer.37.1!f.6" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.1 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.37.1" id="Jer.37.1!f.7" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.1 </span><span class="fq">King Nebuchadnezzar … instead: </span><span class="ft">See 2 Kings 24.10-17.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.37.3-Jer.37.5" id="Jer.37.3-Jer.37.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.3-5 </span><span class="fq">Egyptian army: </span><span class="ft">Led by King Apries, also known as Hophra.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.37.3-Jer.37.5" id="Jer.37.3-Jer.37.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.3-5 </span><span class="fq">Jehucal and the priest Zephaniah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.37.13" id="Jer.37.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.13 </span><span class="fq">Irijah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Irijah son of Shelemiah and grandson of Hananiah.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.37.21" id="Jer.37.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">37.21 </span><span class="fq">a loaf of bread: </span><span class="ft">Bread was the main food of the Israelites. During this time of emergency in Jerusalem, everyone probably received the same amount each day.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.38.1" id="Jer.38.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">38.1 </span><span class="fq">Jehucal: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Jucal,” another form of the name.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.38.1" id="Jer.38.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">38.1 </span><span class="fq">Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jehucal, and Pashhur: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchiah.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.38.7-Jer.38.8" id="Jer.38.7-Jer.38.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">38.7,8 </span><span class="fq">Ethiopia: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Cush,” a region south of Egypt that included parts of the present countries of Ethiopia and Sudan.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.38.10" id="Jer.38.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">38.10 </span><span class="fq">30: </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; one Hebrew manuscript “three.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.38.14" id="Jer.38.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">38.14 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.38.14" id="Jer.38.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">38.14 </span><span class="fq">his private entrance: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.38.17" id="Jer.38.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">38.17 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar's: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.38.23" id="Jer.38.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">38.23 </span><span class="fq">Jerusalem will be burned down: </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts and three ancient translations; most Hebrew manuscripts “you will burn Jerusalem down”; one ancient translation “he will burn Jerusalem down.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3" id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.1-3 </span><span class="fq">the tenth month: </span><span class="ft">Tebeth, the tenth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-December to mid-January.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3" id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.1-3 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3" id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.1-3 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3" id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.1-3 </span><span class="fq">fourth month: </span><span class="ft">Tammuz, the fourth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-June to mid-July.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3" id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3!f.5" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.1-3 </span><span class="fq">After Jerusalem was captured: </span><span class="ft">This phrase is from 38.28.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3" id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3!f.6" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.1-3 </span><span class="fq">highest officials: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text gives Nergal Sharezer's title as “the Rabmag,” and Nebo Sarsechim's title as “the Rabsaris,” but the exact meaning of the titles and the duties of these offices are not known.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3" id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3!f.7" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.1-3 </span><span class="fq">Nebo Sarsechim: </span><span class="ft">Probably another form of the name Nebushazban (see verse 13).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3" id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3!f.8" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.1-3 </span><span class="fq">Nergal Sharezer from Simmagir: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. Probably Nebuchadnezzar's son-in-law, who was king of Babylonia 560–556 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span> It is also possible that the Hebrew text mentions a second official named Nergal Sharezer.</span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3" id="Jer.39.1-Jer.39.3!f.9" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.1-3 </span><span class="fq">took their places … control of the city: </span><span class="ft">The rulers and leaders often sat in the broad open area at the gate of a city to take care of official business and hold trials.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.39.4" id="Jer.39.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.4 </span><span class="fq">the gate between the two city walls: </span><span class="ft">The construction of the city walls at this point is not known.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.39.8" id="Jer.39.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.8 </span><span class="fq">the houses in Jerusalem, including: </span><span class="ft">Or “the temple and.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.39.14" id="Jer.39.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.14 </span><span class="fq">son of Ahikam: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.39.16" id="Jer.39.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.16 </span><span class="fq">Ethiopia: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 38.7,8.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.39.17-Jer.39.18" id="Jer.39.17-Jer.39.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">39.17,18 </span><span class="fq">you trusted me: </span><span class="ft">See 38.7-13, where Ebedmelech helped Jeremiah.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.40.5" id="Jer.40.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">40.5 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.40.9" id="Jer.40.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">40.9 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.41.1" id="Jer.41.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">41.1 </span><span class="fq">seventh month: </span><span class="ft">Tishri, also called Ethanim, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-September to mid-October.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.41.1" id="Jer.41.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">41.1 </span><span class="fq">Ishmael: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.41.9" id="Jer.41.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">41.9 </span><span class="fq">with bodies: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “with bodies of those killed by Gedaliah.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.41.9" id="Jer.41.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">41.9 </span><span class="fq">Asa: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 911–870 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.41.9" id="Jer.41.9!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">41.9 </span><span class="fq">Baasha: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 909–886 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.41.10" id="Jer.41.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">41.10 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar's: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.41.10" id="Jer.41.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">41.10 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah's: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.41.17-Jer.41.18" id="Jer.41.17-Jer.41.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">41.17,18 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.41.17-Jer.41.18" id="Jer.41.17-Jer.41.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">41.17,18 </span><span class="fq">we: </span><span class="ft">The group of people included Jeremiah, since he had been staying with Gedaliah near Mizpah (see 40.6).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.42.1" id="Jer.42.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">42.1 </span><span class="fq">Jezaniah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah”; one ancient translation “Azariah son of Hoshaiah” (see also 43.2 and the note there).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.43.2" id="Jer.43.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">43.2 </span><span class="fq">Azariah, Johanan: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.43.9" id="Jer.43.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">43.9 </span><span class="fq">underneath the brick pavement: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.43.10" id="Jer.43.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">43.10 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.43.12-Jer.43.13" id="Jer.43.12-Jer.43.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">43.12,13 </span><span class="fq">at the temple of the sun-god: </span><span class="ft">Or “in the city of Heliopolis.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.44.17" id="Jer.44.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">44.17 </span><span class="fq">the goddess Astarte, the Queen of Heaven: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “the queen of heaven,” which probably refers to the goddess Astarte.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.44.30" id="Jer.44.30!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">44.30 </span><span class="fq">King Hophra … kill him: </span><span class="ft">Hophra, also known as Apries, ruled Egypt from 589 to 570 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span>, when he was killed by Ahmosis II, who then became king of Egypt and ruled until 526 <span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.44.30" id="Jer.44.30!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">44.30 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.44.30" id="Jer.44.30!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">44.30 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.45.1" id="Jer.45.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">45.1 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.45.1" id="Jer.45.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">45.1 </span><span class="fq">Baruch wrote down everything I had told him: </span><span class="ft">See 36.1-32.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.46.2" id="Jer.46.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.2 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.46.2" id="Jer.46.2!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.2 </span><span class="fq">King Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 605–562 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span> At the time of the battle in 605 <span class="sc">b.c.</span>, he was crown prince, but his father died a few months later, and he became king.</span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.46.2" id="Jer.46.2!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.2 </span><span class="fq">King Neco of Egypt: </span><span class="ft">Neco II, ruled 609–594 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.46.9" id="Jer.46.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.9 </span><span class="fq">Ethiopians: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 38.7,8.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.46.9" id="Jer.46.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.9 </span><span class="fq">Lydians: </span><span class="ft">Probably hired soldiers from Lydia, an area in west-central Asia minor.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.46.13-Jer.46.14" id="Jer.46.13-Jer.46.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.13,14 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.46.15" id="Jer.46.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.15 </span><span class="fq">Apis: </span><span class="ft">A sacred bull, kept in a temple at Memphis, Egypt, and worshiped as a god.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.46.15" id="Jer.46.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.15 </span><span class="fq">I have … him away: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.46.22" id="Jer.46.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.22 </span><span class="fq">locusts: </span><span class="ft">A type of grasshopper that comes in swarms and causes great damage to plant life.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.46.25" id="Jer.46.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.25 </span><span class="fq">the god Amon of Thebes: </span><span class="ft">Amon was the king of the Egyptian gods and was the special god of the Egyptian kings.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.46.27" id="Jer.46.27!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">46.27 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 30.10.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.47.1" id="Jer.47.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">47.1 </span><span class="fq">attacked the town of Gaza: </span><span class="ft">One of the major Philistine towns; nothing is known about this attack.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.47.4" id="Jer.47.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">47.4 </span><span class="fq">Crete: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Caphtor,” another name for Crete, the original homeland of the ancestors of the Philistines.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.47.5" id="Jer.47.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">47.5 </span><span class="fq">Anakim who survive: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “people in the valley who survive.” The Anakim may have been a group of very large people that lived in Palestine before the Israelites (see Numbers 13.33; Deuteronomy 2.10,11, 20,21; and Joshua 11.21,22).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.2" id="Jer.48.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.2 </span><span class="fq">silence … Quiet: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew the name of the town was “Madmen,” which sounds like the word for “silence.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.6" id="Jer.48.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.6 </span><span class="fq">like a wild donkey: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “like (the town of) Aroer” (see verse 19).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.9" id="Jer.48.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.9 </span><span class="fq">Spread salt … crops: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.11" id="Jer.48.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.11 </span><span class="fq">continues … improve: </span><span class="ft">Or “remains as evil as ever.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.13" id="Jer.48.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.13 </span><span class="fq">Bethel: </span><span class="ft">It may refer to the Phoenician or Canaanite god of that name; or it may refer to the town where people of the northern kingdom worshiped at a local shrine (see 1 Kings 12.26-30).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.18" id="Jer.48.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.18 </span><span class="fq">Dibon: </span><span class="ft">The capital city of Moab.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.19" id="Jer.48.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.19 </span><span class="fq">Aroer: </span><span class="ft">A Moabite town located just north of the Arnon River.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.24" id="Jer.48.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.24 </span><span class="fq">Bozrah: </span><span class="ft">Not the same Bozrah as in 49.13.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.32" id="Jer.48.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.32 </span><span class="fq">reaching north … Dead Sea: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.37-Jer.48.38" id="Jer.48.37-Jer.48.38!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.37,38 </span><span class="fq">sackcloth: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 4.8.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.48.41" id="Jer.48.41!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.41 </span><span class="fq">Your cities: </span><span class="ft">Or “Kerioth.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.48.41" id="Jer.48.41!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">48.41 </span><span class="fq">as fearful … birth: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.1" id="Jer.49.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.1 </span><span class="fq">Milcom: </span><span class="ft">The national god of Ammon, probably the same as the god Molech in 32.35.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.3" id="Jer.49.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.3 </span><span class="fq">Heshbon: </span><span class="ft">See also 48.45; since Heshbon was near the border of Moab and Ammon, it was probably ruled by the country that was stronger at the time.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.3" id="Jer.49.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.3 </span><span class="fq">your town will become a pile of rubble: </span><span class="ft">Or “because the town of Ai has been destroyed”; referring to an Ammonite town named Ai, not the town of that name near Bethel in the land of Israel.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.3" id="Jer.49.3!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.3 </span><span class="fq">You will turn … blocked: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.3" id="Jer.49.3!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.3 </span><span class="fq">sackcloth: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 4.8.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.3" id="Jer.49.3!f.5" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.3 </span><span class="fq">the idol you worship: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Milcom” (see verse 1 and the note there).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.4" id="Jer.49.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.4 </span><span class="fq">when … fading: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.7" id="Jer.49.7!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.7,8 </span><span class="fq">Teman: </span><span class="ft">The name of a town in Edom, sometimes used as the name of the northern half of the nation of Edom; here it probably stands for the whole nation.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.8" id="Jer.49.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.7,8 </span><span class="fq">Esau: </span><span class="ft">The ancestor of the nation of Edom.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.8" id="Jer.49.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.7,8 </span><span class="fq">Dedan: </span><span class="ft">The name of a town in northwest Arabia, also used of the northwest region of Arabia along the Red Sea.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.8" id="Jer.49.8!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.7,8 </span><span class="fq">anyone … home: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.13" id="Jer.49.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.13 </span><span class="fq">Bozrah: </span><span class="ft">The main city and capital of Edom.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.16" id="Jer.49.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.16 </span><span class="fq">Pride … fear: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.20" id="Jer.49.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.20 </span><span class="fq">Edom: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text also uses the name “Teman” (see the note at 49.7,8).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.21" id="Jer.49.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.21 </span><span class="fq">Red Sea: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew <span class="tl">yam suph</span>, here referring to the Gulf of Aqaba, since the term is extended to include the northeastern arm of the Red Sea (see also the note at Exodus 13.18).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.22" id="Jer.49.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.22 </span><span class="fq">as fearful … birth: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.23" id="Jer.49.23!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.23 </span><span class="fq">Hamath and Arpad: </span><span class="ft">Two towns in Syria that had been the capitals of small kingdoms allied with the more powerful kingdom whose capital was Damascus.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.23" id="Jer.49.23!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.23 </span><span class="fq">worries … waves: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.24" id="Jer.49.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.24 </span><span class="fq">gripped by fear and pain: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.25" id="Jer.49.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.25 </span><span class="fq">can: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 25.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.28" id="Jer.49.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.28 </span><span class="fq">desert villages: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “kingdoms of Hazor,” which probably refers to several kingdoms of desert peoples who were not nomads, but who lived in small villages.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.28" id="Jer.49.28!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.28 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.30" id="Jer.49.30!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.30 </span><span class="fq">villages: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 49.28.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.32" id="Jer.49.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.32 </span><span class="fq">People of the Arabian Desert: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.33" id="Jer.49.33!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.33 </span><span class="fq">jackals: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 9.11.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.33" id="Jer.49.33!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.33 </span><span class="fq">villages: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 49.28.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.49.34-Jer.49.35" id="Jer.49.34-Jer.49.35!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.34,35 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.49.34-Jer.49.35" id="Jer.49.34-Jer.49.35!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">49.34,35 </span><span class="fq">Elam: </span><span class="ft">A nation east of Babylonia, attacked by Nebuchadnezzar about 596 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.50.2" id="Jer.50.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">50.2 </span><span class="fq">Marduk: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Bel” and “Marduk,” two names for the same god.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.50.9" id="Jer.50.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">50.9 </span><span class="fq">the best soldiers: </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and two ancient translations; most Hebrew manuscripts “soldiers that kill children.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.50.11" id="Jer.50.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">50.11 </span><span class="fq">threshing grain: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; two ancient translations “in a pasture.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.50.17" id="Jer.50.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">50.17 </span><span class="fq">king of Assyria: </span><span class="ft">Either Shalmaneser V, who ruled 726–722 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span>, conquered most of the northern kingdom, and surrounded its capital city Samaria; or Sargon II, who ruled 721–705 <span class="sc">b.c.</span> and took thousands of prisoners back to Assyria.</span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.50.17" id="Jer.50.17!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">50.17 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.50.21" id="Jer.50.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">50.21 </span><span class="fq">Merathaim … Pekod: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew forms of two Babylonian names that refer to the land of Babylonia. Merathaim probably referred to lagoons near the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers or to the Persian Gulf, but in Hebrew it means “Twice as Rebellious.” Pekod referred to a tribe of southeastern Babylonia, but in Hebrew it means “Punishment.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.50.39" id="Jer.50.39!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">50.39 </span><span class="fq">jackals: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 9.11.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.1" id="Jer.51.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.1 </span><span class="fq">wind: </span><span class="ft">Or “spirit.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.51.1" id="Jer.51.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.1 </span><span class="fq">Babylonia: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Leb-Qamai,” a secret way of writing “Babylonia.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.3" id="Jer.51.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.3 </span><span class="fq">I will tell … armor: </span><span class="ft">Or “Attack quickly! String your bows and put on your armor.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.8" id="Jer.51.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.8 </span><span class="fq">the foreigners: </span><span class="ft">Or “my people.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.11" id="Jer.51.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.11 </span><span class="fq">kings of Media: </span><span class="ft">Probably kings of smaller kingdoms that were part of the Median Empire (see also verse 27 and the note there).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.13" id="Jer.51.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.13 </span><span class="fq">for you to die: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.14" id="Jer.51.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.14 </span><span class="fq">locusts: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 46.22.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.27" id="Jer.51.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.27 </span><span class="fq">Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: </span><span class="ft">Kingdoms to the north of Babylonia that were part of the Median Empire (see also verse 28).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.30" id="Jer.51.30!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.30 </span><span class="fq">have lost their strength and courage: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “have lost their strength and have become like women.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.32" id="Jer.51.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.32 </span><span class="fq">marshes: </span><span class="ft">The tall grass in the marshes could have provided hiding places for people trying to escape from Babylon.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.33" id="Jer.51.33!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.33 </span><span class="fq">leveled … harvest time: </span><span class="ft">A threshing place with a dirt surface had to be leveled and packed down before it could be used.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.34" id="Jer.51.34!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.34 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.35" id="Jer.51.35!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.35 </span><span class="fq">harmed some of us: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.36" id="Jer.51.36!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.36 </span><span class="fq">stream: </span><span class="ft">Probably the Euphrates River.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.37" id="Jer.51.37!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.37 </span><span class="fq">jackals: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 9.11.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.41" id="Jer.51.41!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.41 </span><span class="fq">Babylon: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Sheshach,” a secret way of writing the name “Babylon.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.44" id="Jer.51.44!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.44 </span><span class="fq">Marduk: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Bel” (see the note at 50.2).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.59" id="Jer.51.59!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.59 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah's: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.51.59" id="Jer.51.59!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.59 </span><span class="fq">Baruch's brother Seraiah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Seraiah son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah”; Baruch helped Jeremiah write down his messages (see 32.12; 36.4-10).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.51.59" id="Jer.51.59!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.59 </span><span class="fq">arranging for places to stay overnight: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew and one ancient translation; two ancient translations, “the tax money.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.51.60" id="Jer.51.60!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">51.60 </span><span class="fq">scroll: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 30.1,2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.1" id="Jer.52.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.1 </span><span class="fq">appointed king of Judah: </span><span class="ft">By Nebuchadnezzar (see 37.1).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.52.1" id="Jer.52.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.1 </span><span class="fq">he ruled … years: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 598–586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.52.1" id="Jer.52.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.1 </span><span class="fq">Jeremiah from the town of Libnah: </span><span class="ft">Not the same Jeremiah as the author of this book (see 1.1).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.3" id="Jer.52.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.3 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.4" id="Jer.52.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.4 </span><span class="fq">tenth month: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 39.1-3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.5-Jer.52.6" id="Jer.52.5-Jer.52.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.5,6 </span><span class="fq">After a year and a half: </span><span class="ft">Jerusalem was captured in 586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.52.5-Jer.52.6" id="Jer.52.5-Jer.52.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.5,6 </span><span class="fq">fourth month: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 39.1-3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.12" id="Jer.52.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.12 </span><span class="fq">About a month later: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “On the seventh day of the fifth month.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.15" id="Jer.52.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.15 </span><span class="fq">the rest of the skilled workers: </span><span class="ft">Nebuchadnezzar had taken away some of the skilled workers eleven years before (see 2 Kings 24.14-16).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.17-Jer.52.20" id="Jer.52.17-Jer.52.20!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.17-20 </span><span class="fq">the large bowl called the Sea, the twelve bulls that held it up, and the movable stands: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “the large bowl called the Sea, and the twelve bulls under the movable stands.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.22" id="Jer.52.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.22 </span><span class="fq">pomegranates: </span><span class="ft">A small red fruit that looks like an apple.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.23" id="Jer.52.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.23 </span><span class="fq">evenly spaced: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.28-Jer.52.30" id="Jer.52.28-Jer.52.30!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.28-30 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.52.31" id="Jer.52.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.31 </span><span class="fq">Evil Merodach: </span><span class="ft">The son of Nebuchadnezzar who ruled Babylonia from 562–560 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.52.31" id="Jer.52.31!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.31 </span><span class="fq">twelfth month: </span><span class="ft">Adar, the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-February to mid-March.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.1.2" id="Lam.1.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.2 </span><span class="fq">lovers … friends: </span><span class="ft">Israel's former allies.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.1.3" id="Lam.1.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.3 </span><span class="fq">Their … cruel: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.1.4" id="Lam.1.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.4 </span><span class="fq">raped: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.1.10" id="Lam.1.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.10 </span><span class="fq">to … people: </span><span class="ft">Or “to enter his temple.”</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.1.12" id="Lam.1.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.12 </span><span class="fq">No … cares: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.1.14" id="Lam.1.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.14 </span><span class="fq">You … neck: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.2.1" id="Lam.2.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.1 </span><span class="fq">disgraced: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.2.3" id="Lam.2.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.3 </span><span class="fq">army: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “horn,” which refers to the horn of a bull, one of the most powerful animals in ancient Palestine.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.2.4" id="Lam.2.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.4 </span><span class="fq">the homes on Mount Zion: </span><span class="ft">Or “the temple on Mount Zion.”</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.2.6" id="Lam.2.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.6 </span><span class="fq">He … garden: </span><span class="ft">Or “He shattered the temple walls, as if they were the walls of a garden.”</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.2.13" id="Lam.2.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">How great … pain: </span><span class="ft">Or “What are you really like?” or “What can I say about you?”</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.2.17" id="Lam.2.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.17 </span><span class="fq">powerful forces: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “horn,” which refers to the horn of a bull, one of the most powerful animals in ancient Palestine.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.3.11" id="Lam.3.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.11 </span><span class="fq">shreds: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 11.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.3.20" id="Lam.3.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.20 </span><span class="fq">I am depressed: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.3.22" id="Lam.3.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.22 </span><span class="fq">destroyed: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 22.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.3.29" id="Lam.3.29!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.29 </span><span class="fq">lesson: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 29.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.3.65" id="Lam.3.65!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.65 </span><span class="fq">make them suffer: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.4.3" id="Lam.4.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.3 </span><span class="fq">jackals: </span><span class="ft">Desert animals related to wolves, but smaller.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.4.6" id="Lam.4.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.6 </span><span class="fq">hands: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 6.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.4.7" id="Lam.4.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.7 </span><span class="fq">jewels: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 7.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.4.15" id="Lam.4.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.15 </span><span class="fq">here: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 15.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.4.17" id="Lam.4.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.17 </span><span class="fq">nation: </span><span class="ft">Egypt, a former ally of Judah.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.4.20" id="Lam.4.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.20 </span><span class="fq">chosen leader: </span><span class="ft">Probably Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, taken away to Babylonia in 586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.5.1" id="Lam.5.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.1 </span><span class="fq">The People of Jerusalem Pray: </span><span class="ft">Or “The Prophet Prays.”</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.5.5" id="Lam.5.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.5 </span><span class="fq">We … mistreated: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.5.6" id="Lam.5.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.6 </span><span class="fq">surrender to: </span><span class="ft">Or “make treaties with.”</span></span>


bookid: Lam
contenido:
<span verse_id="Lam.5.9" id="Lam.5.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.9 </span><span class="fq">crops: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 9.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.1.1-Ezek.1.3" id="Ezek.1.1-Ezek.1.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1-3 </span><span class="fq">a priest and the son of Buzi: </span><span class="ft">Or “the son of Buzi the priest.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Ezek.1.1-Ezek.1.3" id="Ezek.1.1-Ezek.1.3!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1-3 </span><span class="fq">Five years … prisoner … fourth month: </span><span class="ft">Probably July of 593 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Ezek.1.1-Ezek.1.3" id="Ezek.1.1-Ezek.1.3!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1-3 </span><span class="fq">thirtieth year: </span><span class="ft">The event from which this date is figured is unknown.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Ezek.1.1-Ezek.1.3" id="Ezek.1.1-Ezek.1.3!f.5" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1-3 </span><span class="fq">The LORD placed his hand upon me: </span><span class="ft">This was a sign that the LORD had chosen Ezekiel to be his prophet.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.1.11" id="Ezek.1.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.11 </span><span class="fq">Two wings: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.1.13" id="Ezek.1.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.13 </span><span class="fq">up: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 13.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.1.14" id="Ezek.1.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.14 </span><span class="fq">as sparks jumping from a fire: </span><span class="ft">Or “as flashes of lightning.”</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.1.15" id="Ezek.1.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.15 </span><span class="fq">wheel: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 15.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.1.16" id="Ezek.1.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.16 </span><span class="fq">chrysolite: </span><span class="ft">A precious stone that has an olive green color.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Ezek.1.16" id="Ezek.1.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.16 </span><span class="fq">a second wheel that cut through the middle of it: </span><span class="ft">Or “a smaller wheel inside it.”</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.1.18" id="Ezek.1.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.18 </span><span class="fq">them: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 18.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.1.26" id="Ezek.1.26!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.26 </span><span class="fq">sapphire: </span><span class="ft">A precious stone that has a blue color.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.2.1" id="Ezek.2.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.1 </span><span class="fq">The LORD: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “The voice.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Ezek.2.1" id="Ezek.2.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.1 </span><span class="fq">Ezekiel, son of man: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Son of man,” which is often used in this book when the LORD speaks directly to Ezekiel. It means that Ezekiel is a mere human, yet he is the one the LORD has chosen to be his prophet who speaks for him to the people of Israel.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.2.9" id="Ezek.2.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.9 </span><span class="fq">scroll: </span><span class="ft">A roll of paper or special leather used for writing on.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.3.12" id="Ezek.3.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.12 </span><span class="fq">The Spirit: </span><span class="ft">Or “A wind.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Ezek.3.12" id="Ezek.3.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.12 </span><span class="fq">as the glory of the LORD started to leave: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.3.27" id="Ezek.3.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.27 </span><span class="fq">again … speak my message: </span><span class="ft">See 33.21,22.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.4.4-Ezek.4.5" id="Ezek.4.4-Ezek.4.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.4,5 </span><span class="fq">Israel's punishment: </span><span class="ft">Israel here refers to the northern kingdom that was destroyed in 722 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.4.13" id="Ezek.4.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.13 </span><span class="fq">have to eat food that is unclean, just as you must do: </span><span class="ft">The LORD had forbidden the people of Israel to mix certain things (see Deuteronomy 22.9-11), and so the people would not have been allowed to eat this bread under normal conditions. It is used here to show that when a city is under attack, people eat whatever food is left, even if the LORD had said it was unclean.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.5.11" id="Ezek.5.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.11 </span><span class="fq">cut you down: </span><span class="ft">Or “turn my back on you.”</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.6.6" id="Ezek.6.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.6 </span><span class="fq">will be a pile of ruins: </span><span class="ft">Three ancient translations; Hebrew “will become guilty.”</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.7.5" id="Ezek.7.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.5 </span><span class="fq">disaster: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 5.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.7.7" id="Ezek.7.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.7 </span><span class="fq">celebration: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 7.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.7.11" id="Ezek.7.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.11 </span><span class="fq">shattered: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verses 10,11.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.7.13" id="Ezek.7.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.13 </span><span class="fq">mind: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 13.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.7.16" id="Ezek.7.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.16 </span><span class="fq">will moan: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; two ancient translations “will die.”</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.7.18" id="Ezek.7.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.18 </span><span class="fq">sackcloth: </span><span class="ft">A rough, dark-colored cloth made from goat or camel hair and used to make grain sacks. It was worn in times of trouble or sorrow.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.7.22" id="Ezek.7.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.22 </span><span class="fq">my temple: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “my treasure,” which may refer to the temple, to Jerusalem, or to Israel itself.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.7.23" id="Ezek.7.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.23 </span><span class="fq">Your whole country is in confusion: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Get chains ready to drag away the dead bodies of your people.”</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.8.1" id="Ezek.8.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.1 </span><span class="fq">Six years … sixth month: </span><span class="ft">Probably September of 592 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.8.2" id="Ezek.8.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.2 </span><span class="fq">a human: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “a fiery figure.”</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.8.10" id="Ezek.8.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.10 </span><span class="fq">disgusting, unclean animals: </span><span class="ft">See, for example, Leviticus 11.9-19.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.8.14" id="Ezek.8.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.14 </span><span class="fq">the god Tammuz: </span><span class="ft">A god of vegetation who was thought to die in the dry season. During the Hebrew month of Tammuz (from about mid-June to mid-July), women mourned the death of this god, hoping to bring him back to life.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.8.17" id="Ezek.8.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.17 </span><span class="fq">disgraced and insulted me … way: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.9.3" id="Ezek.9.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.3 </span><span class="fq">the statues of the winged creatures: </span><span class="ft">These were symbols of the LORD's throne on earth (see Exodus 25.18-22; 1 Kings 6.23-28).</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.10.1" id="Ezek.10.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.1 </span><span class="fq">winged creatures: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 9.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Ezek.10.1" id="Ezek.10.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.1 </span><span class="fq">sapphire: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.26.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Ezek.10.1" id="Ezek.10.1!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.1 </span><span class="fq">dome … creatures … throne: </span><span class="ft">See 1.22-26.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.10.9" id="Ezek.10.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.9 </span><span class="fq">chrysolite: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.16.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.10.10" id="Ezek.10.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.10 </span><span class="fq">a second wheel that cut through the middle of it: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.16.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.10.14" id="Ezek.10.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.14 </span><span class="fq">a bull: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “a winged creature,” but see 1.10.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.11.1" id="Ezek.11.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.1 </span><span class="fq">The LORD's Spirit: </span><span class="ft">Or “A wind.”</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.11.3" id="Ezek.11.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.3 </span><span class="fq">Let's … houses: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Ezek.11.3" id="Ezek.11.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.3 </span><span class="fq">the pot keeps us from being burned in the fire: </span><span class="ft">These leaders were trying to convince the people of Jerusalem that they were secure, and that their future was bright.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.11.9" id="Ezek.11.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.9 </span><span class="fq">foreign enemies: </span><span class="ft">That is, the Babylonians.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.11.24" id="Ezek.11.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.24 </span><span class="fq">the LORD's Spirit: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 11.1.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.12.5" id="Ezek.12.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.5 </span><span class="fq">Dig through the wall of your house: </span><span class="ft">The walls of most houses in Babylonia were made of mud bricks that had been dried in the sun. A hole could easily have been dug through these bricks.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.12.13" id="Ezek.12.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.13 </span><span class="fq">He will then be led away … that place: </span><span class="ft">According to 2 Kings 25.6,7, King Zedekiah of Judah was blinded before he was taken to Babylon.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.13.4" id="Ezek.13.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.4 </span><span class="fq">jackals: </span><span class="ft">Desert animals related to wolves, but smaller.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.13.18" id="Ezek.13.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.18 </span><span class="fq">They wear … the future: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.13.20" id="Ezek.13.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.20 </span><span class="fq">like birds: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.14.14" id="Ezek.14.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.14 </span><span class="fq">Daniel: </span><span class="ft">Or “Danel,” possibly a well-known hero or wise man.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.16.3" id="Ezek.16.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.3 </span><span class="fq">Amorite … Hittite: </span><span class="ft">People who lived in Canaan before the Israelites and who worshiped idols.</span></span>


bookid: Ezek
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ezek.16.4" id="Ezek.16.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.4 </span><span class="fq">rubbed your skin with salt and olive oil: </span><span class="ft">People believed this toughened the skin of the babies.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.15" id="Rev.2.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.15 </span><span class="fq">Nicolaitans: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.6.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.17" id="Rev.2.17!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.17 </span><span class="fq">hidden food: </span><span class="ft">When the people of Israel were going through the desert, the Lord provided a special food for them. Some of this was placed in a jar and stored in the sacred chest (see Exodus 16). According to later Jewish teaching, the prophet Jeremiah rescued the sacred chest when the temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. He hid the chest in a cave, where it would stay until God came to save his people.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Rev.2.17" id="Rev.2.17!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.17 </span><span class="fq">white stone: </span><span class="ft">The meaning of this is uncertain, though it may be the same as a ticket that lets a person into God's banquet where the “hidden food” is eaten. Or it may be a symbol of victory.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Rev.2.17" id="Rev.2.17!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.17 </span><span class="fq">a new name: </span><span class="ft">Either the name of Christ or God or the name of the follower who is given the stone.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.20" id="Rev.2.20!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.20 </span><span class="fq">Jezebel: </span><span class="ft">Nothing else is known about her. This may have been her real name or a name that was given to her because she was like Queen Jezebel, who opposed the Lord (see 1 Kings 19.1,2; 21.1-26).</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.23" id="Rev.2.23!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.23 </span><span class="fq">her followers: </span><span class="ft">Or “her children.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.27-Rev.2.28" id="Rev.2.27-Rev.2.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.27,28 </span><span class="fq">the morning star: </span><span class="ft">Probably thought of as the star that signals the end of night and the beginning of day. In 22.16 Christ is called the “morning star.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.3.5" id="Rev.3.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.5 </span><span class="fq">book of life: </span><span class="ft">The book in which the names of God's people are written.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.3.7" id="Rev.3.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.7 </span><span class="fq">the keys that belonged to David: </span><span class="ft">The keys stand for authority over David's kingdom.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.3.8" id="Rev.3.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.8 </span><span class="fq">did not deny you are my followers: </span><span class="ft">Or “did not say evil things about me.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.3.14" id="Rev.3.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.14 </span><span class="fq">Amen: </span><span class="ft">Meaning “Trustworthy.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Rev.3.14" id="Rev.3.14!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.14 </span><span class="fq">source: </span><span class="ft">Or “beginning.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.4.3" id="Rev.4.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.3 </span><span class="fq">jasper: </span><span class="ft">Usually green or clear.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Rev.4.3" id="Rev.4.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.3 </span><span class="fq">carnelian: </span><span class="ft">Usually deep-red or reddish-white.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Rev.4.3" id="Rev.4.3!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.3 </span><span class="fq">emerald: </span><span class="ft">A precious stone, usually green.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.5.1" id="Rev.5.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.1 </span><span class="fq">scroll: </span><span class="ft">A roll of paper or special leather used for writing on. Sometimes a scroll would be sealed on the outside with one or more pieces of wax.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.5.5" id="Rev.5.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.5 </span><span class="fq">‘Lion from the Tribe of Judah’: </span><span class="ft">In Genesis 49.9 the tribe of Judah is called a young lion, and King David was from Judah.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Rev.5.5" id="Rev.5.5!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.5 </span><span class="fq">‘King David's Great Descendant’: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “the root of David” which is a title for the Messiah based on Isaiah 11.1,10.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.5.6" id="Rev.5.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.6 </span><span class="fq">the seven spirits: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “the spirits.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.5.8" id="Rev.5.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.8 </span><span class="fq">incense: </span><span class="ft">A material that produces a sweet smell when burned. Sometimes it is a symbol for the prayers of God's people.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.6.12" id="Rev.6.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.12 </span><span class="fq">sackcloth: </span><span class="ft">A rough, dark-colored cloth made from goat or camel hair and used to make grain sacks. It was worn in times of trouble or sorrow.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.6.14" id="Rev.6.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.14 </span><span class="fq">scroll: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 5.1.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.8.3" id="Rev.8.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.3 </span><span class="fq">incense: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 5.8.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.9.1" id="Rev.9.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.1 </span><span class="fq">star: </span><span class="ft">In the ancient world, stars were often thought of as living beings, such as angels.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.9.3" id="Rev.9.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.3 </span><span class="fq">Locusts: </span><span class="ft">A type of grasshopper that comes in swarms and causes great damage to crops.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.9.11" id="Rev.9.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.11 </span><span class="fq">Abaddon … Apollyon: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word “Abaddon” and the Greek word “Apollyon” each mean “destruction.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.10.2" id="Rev.10.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.2 </span><span class="fq">scroll: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 5.1.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.11.3" id="Rev.11.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.3 </span><span class="fq">sackcloth: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 6.12.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.11.19" id="Rev.11.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.19 </span><span class="fq">sacred chest: </span><span class="ft">In Old Testament times the sacred chest was kept in the tent used for worship. It was the symbol of God's presence with his people and also of his agreement with them.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.12.11" id="Rev.12.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.11 </span><span class="fq">blood: </span><span class="ft">Or “death.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.12.18" id="Rev.12.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.18 </span><span class="fq">The dragon: </span><span class="ft">The text has “he,” and some manuscripts have “I.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.13.8" id="Rev.13.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.8 </span><span class="fq">wasn't written … was killed: </span><span class="ft">Or “not written in the book of the Lamb who was killed before the time of creation.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.14.1" id="Rev.14.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.1 </span><span class="fq">Mount Zion: </span><span class="ft">Another name for Jerusalem.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.14.4" id="Rev.14.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.4 </span><span class="fq">the most precious people: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “the first people.” The Law of Moses taught that the first-born of all animals and the first part of the harvest were special and belonged to the Lord.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.14.14" id="Rev.14.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.14 </span><span class="fq">Son of Man: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.13.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Rev.14.14" id="Rev.14.14!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.14 </span><span class="fq">sickle: </span><span class="ft">A knife with a long curved blade, used to cut grain and other crops.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.14.19" id="Rev.14.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.19 </span><span class="fq">pit: </span><span class="ft">It was the custom to put grapes in a pit (called a wine press) and trample on them to make juice that would later turn to wine.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.16.6" id="Rev.16.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.6 </span><span class="fq">They poured out the blood: </span><span class="ft">A way of saying, “They murdered.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.16.16" id="Rev.16.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.16 </span><span class="fq">Armagedon: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew form of the name would be “Har Megiddo,” meaning “Hill of Megiddo,” where many battles were fought in ancient times (see Judges 5.19; 2 Kings 23.29,30).</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.17.8" id="Rev.17.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.8 </span><span class="fq">book of life: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 3.5.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.18.13" id="Rev.18.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.13 </span><span class="fq">myrrh, frankincense: </span><span class="ft">Myrrh was a valuable sweet-smelling powder often used in perfume. Frankincense was a valuable powder that was burned to make a sweet smell.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.19.13" id="Rev.19.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.13 </span><span class="fq">covered with: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “sprinkled with.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.20.5-Rev.20.6" id="Rev.20.5-Rev.20.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.5,6 </span><span class="fq">second death: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.11.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.20.12" id="Rev.20.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.12 </span><span class="fq">book of life: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 3.5.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.20.14" id="Rev.20.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.14 </span><span class="fq">second death: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.11.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.21.6" id="Rev.21.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.6 </span><span class="fq">Alpha and Omega: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.8.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.21.8" id="Rev.21.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.8 </span><span class="fq">second death: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.11.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.21.19" id="Rev.21.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.19 </span><span class="fq">jasper: </span><span class="ft">The precious and semi-precious stones mentioned in verses 19,20 are of different colors. </span><span class="fk">Jasper </span><span class="ft">is usually green or clear; </span><span class="fk">sapphire </span><span class="ft">is blue; </span><span class="fk">agate </span><span class="ft">has circles of brown and white; </span><span class="fk">emerald </span><span class="ft">is green; </span><span class="fk">onyx </span><span class="ft">has different bands of color; </span><span class="fk">carnelian </span><span class="ft">is deep-red or reddish-white; </span><span class="fk">chrysolite </span><span class="ft">is olive-green; </span><span class="fk">beryl </span><span class="ft">is green or bluish-green; </span><span class="fk">topaz </span><span class="ft">is yellow; </span><span class="fk">chrysoprase </span><span class="ft">is apple-green; </span><span class="fk">jacinth </span><span class="ft">is reddish-orange; and </span><span class="fk">amethyst </span><span class="ft">is deep purple.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.21.27" id="Rev.21.27!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.27 </span><span class="fq">book of life: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 3.5.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.22.2" id="Rev.22.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.2 </span><span class="fq">trees: </span><span class="ft">The Greek has “tree,” which is used in a collective sense of trees on both sides of the heavenly river.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.22.13" id="Rev.22.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.13 </span><span class="fq">Alpha and Omega: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.8.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.22.16" id="Rev.22.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.16 </span><span class="fq">David's Great Descendant: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 5.5.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Rev.22.16" id="Rev.22.16!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.16 </span><span class="fq">the bright morning star: </span><span class="ft">Probably thought of as the brightest star (see 2.27,28).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.7.19" id="Judg.7.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.19 </span><span class="fq">a few hours after dark, just … duty: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “at the beginning of the second watch, just … duty.” The night was divided into three periods called “watches,” each about four hours long, and different guards would come on duty at the beginning of each watch. The first watch began at sunset, so the beginning of the second watch would have been shortly after 10:00 </span><span class="sc">p.m.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.7.22" id="Judg.7.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.22 </span><span class="fq">Zeredah: </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts “Zererah”; these may be different names for the town of Zarethan in the Jordan River valley.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.7.22" id="Judg.7.22!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.22 </span><span class="fq">Acacia Tree Town … Zeredah … Abel-Meholah near Tabbath: </span><span class="ft">These were places east of the Jordan River.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.7.23" id="Judg.7.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.23 </span><span class="fq">both halves of Manasseh: </span><span class="ft">Half of Manasseh lived east of the Jordan River, and the other half lived on the west.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.7.25" id="Judg.7.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.25 </span><span class="fq">Raven and Wolf: </span><span class="ft">Or “Oreb and Zeeb.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.7.25" id="Judg.7.25!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.25 </span><span class="fq">Raven Rock … Wolf Wine-Pit: </span><span class="ft">Or “Oreb Rock … Zeeb Wine-Pit.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.8.9" id="Judg.8.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.9 </span><span class="fq">tower: </span><span class="ft">Towers were often part of a town wall.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.8.10" id="Judg.8.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.10 </span><span class="fq">Karkor: </span><span class="ft">About 160 kilometers east of the Dead Sea.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.8.11" id="Judg.8.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.11 </span><span class="fq">Nomad: </span><span class="ft">A person who lives in a tent and moves from place to place.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.8.17" id="Judg.8.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.17 </span><span class="fq">all … officials: </span><span class="ft">Or “every man in town.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.8.20" id="Judg.8.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.20 </span><span class="fq">young: </span><span class="ft">Gideon wanted to insult the kings by having a young boy kill them.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.8.24" id="Judg.8.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.24 </span><span class="fq">Ishmaelites: </span><span class="ft">According to Genesis 25.1,2, 12, both Ishmaelites and Midianites were descendants of Abraham. It is possible that in this passage “Ishmaelites” has the meaning “nomadic traders,” while “Midianites” (verses 22,26-29) refers to their ethnic origin.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.8.27-Judg.8.29" id="Judg.8.27-Judg.8.29!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.27-29 </span><span class="fq">statue … statue: </span><span class="ft">Or “sacred priestly vest … vest.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.8.31" id="Judg.8.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.31 </span><span class="fq">wife: </span><span class="ft">This translates a Hebrew word for a woman who was legally bound to a man, but without the full privileges of a wife.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.8.31" id="Judg.8.31!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.31 </span><span class="fq">who lived at Shechem: </span><span class="ft">Sometimes marriages were arranged so that the wife lived with her parents, and the husband visited her from time to time.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.8.33" id="Judg.8.33!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.33 </span><span class="fq">Baal Berith: </span><span class="ft">Or “Baal of the Agreement” or “the Lord of the Agreement.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.1" id="Judg.9.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.1 </span><span class="fq">Gideon: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Jerubbaal,” another name for Gideon (see 6.32).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.4" id="Judg.9.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.4 </span><span class="fq">70 pieces: </span><span class="ft">Nearly 800 grams.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.9.4" id="Judg.9.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.4 </span><span class="fq">Baal Berith: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.33.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.6" id="Judg.9.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.6 </span><span class="fq">including the priests and the military officers: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “and the Millo house,” another name for the temple of Baal Berith. It probably also served as a military fortress.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.9.6" id="Judg.9.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.6 </span><span class="fq">tree … rock: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “propped-up sacred tree.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.15" id="Judg.9.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.15 </span><span class="fq">cedars of Lebanon: </span><span class="ft">The cedars that grew in the Lebanon mountains were some of the largest trees in that part of the world.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.16-Judg.9.18" id="Judg.9.16-Judg.9.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.16-18 </span><span class="fq">son of … slave girl: </span><span class="ft">See 8.31.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.31" id="Judg.9.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.31 </span><span class="fq">But … Shechem: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.37" id="Judg.9.37!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.37 </span><span class="fq">sacred mountain: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “the navel of the land,” which probably refers to Mount Gerizim as a sacred mountain linking heaven and earth.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.41" id="Judg.9.41!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.41 </span><span class="fq">Arumah: </span><span class="ft">About eight kilometers from Shechem.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.45" id="Judg.9.45!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.45 </span><span class="fq">scattered salt: </span><span class="ft">This may have been part of a ceremony to place a curse on the town.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.46" id="Judg.9.46!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.46 </span><span class="fq">temple of El Berith: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text also calls all or part of this temple the “Fortress of Shechem.” El Berith, “the God of the Agreement,” was also known as Baal Berith, “the Lord of the Agreement” (see also 8.33; 9.4).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.53" id="Judg.9.53!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.53 </span><span class="fq">large rock: </span><span class="ft">One that was used in the grinding of grain.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.9.57" id="Judg.9.57!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.57 </span><span class="fq">helping Abimelech: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “their evil” (see 9.3,4).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.10.2" id="Judg.10.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.2 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">See 2.16 and the note there.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.10.3" id="Judg.10.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.3 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">See 2.16 and the note there.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.10.4" id="Judg.10.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.4 </span><span class="fq">each son had his own mule: </span><span class="ft">A sign that the family was wealthy.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.10.4" id="Judg.10.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.4 </span><span class="fq">The Settlements of Jair: </span><span class="ft">Or “Havvoth-Jair.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.10.11-Judg.10.12" id="Judg.10.11-Judg.10.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.11,12 </span><span class="fq">Maonites: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “Midianites.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.10.17" id="Judg.10.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.17 </span><span class="fq">Mizpah: </span><span class="ft">In chapters 10–12, Mizpah is the name of a town in Gilead (see 11.29), not the same town as the Mizpah of chapters 20,21.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.11.11" id="Judg.11.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.11 </span><span class="fq">Mizpah: </span><span class="ft">In chapters 10–12, Mizpah is the name of a town in Gilead (see 11.29), not the same town as the Mizpah of chapters 20,21.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.11.16" id="Judg.11.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.16 </span><span class="fq">Red Sea: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew <span class="tl">yam suph</span>, here referring to the Gulf of Aqaba, since the term is extended to include the northeastern arm of the Red Sea (see also the note at Exodus 13.18).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.11.24" id="Judg.11.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.24 </span><span class="fq">Chemosh your god: </span><span class="ft">Chemosh was actually the national god of Moab, not Ammon. The land that Ammon was trying to take over had belonged to the Moabites before belonging to the Amorites (see Numbers 21.26). So the Ammonites may have thought that Chemosh controlled it.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.11.40" id="Judg.11.40!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.40 </span><span class="fq">weeping for: </span><span class="ft">Or “remembering.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.12.4" id="Judg.12.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.4 </span><span class="fq">You people of Gilead … Ephraim and Manasseh: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.12.7" id="Judg.12.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.7 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">See 2.16 and the note there.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.12.7" id="Judg.12.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.7 </span><span class="fq">his hometown Mizpah: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.12.8" id="Judg.12.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.8 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">See 2.16 and the note there.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.12.11" id="Judg.12.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.11 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">See 2.16 and the note there.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.12.13-Judg.12.15" id="Judg.12.13-Judg.12.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.13-15 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">See 2.16 and the note there.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.12.13-Judg.12.15" id="Judg.12.13-Judg.12.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.13-15 </span><span class="fq">each … donkey: </span><span class="ft">A sign that the family was wealthy.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.13.3-Judg.13.5" id="Judg.13.3-Judg.13.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.3-5 </span><span class="fq">belong to God: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “be a Nazirite of God.” Nazirites were dedicated to God and had to follow special rules to stay that way (see Numbers 6.1,21).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.13.22" id="Judg.13.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.22 </span><span class="fq">angel: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “god,” which can be used of God or of other supernatural beings.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.13.22" id="Judg.13.22!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.22 </span><span class="fq">We have seen an angel. Now we're going to die: </span><span class="ft">Some people believed that if they saw the LORD or one of the LORD's angels, they would die.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.13.25" id="Judg.13.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.25 </span><span class="fq">Dan's Camp: </span><span class="ft">Or “Mahaneh-Dan.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.14.2" id="Judg.14.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.2 </span><span class="fq">Get her for me: </span><span class="ft">At that time, parents arranged marriages for their children.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.14.8" id="Judg.14.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.8 </span><span class="fq">Later: </span><span class="ft">Or “The following year.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.14.9" id="Judg.14.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.9 </span><span class="fq">But he didn't tell them … skeleton of a lion: </span><span class="ft">To eat anything that had touched a skeleton was against God's laws (see Leviticus 11.27-40).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.14.10" id="Judg.14.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.10 </span><span class="fq">party: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term means a party that involved a lot of drinking.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.14.10" id="Judg.14.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.10 </span><span class="fq">grooms: </span><span class="ft">Or “warriors.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.14.15" id="Judg.14.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.15 </span><span class="fq">Finally, on the seventh: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; three ancient translations “on the fourth.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.14.19" id="Judg.14.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.19 </span><span class="fq">Ashkelon: </span><span class="ft">Another Philistine town.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.14.20" id="Judg.14.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.20 </span><span class="fq">one … at Samson's party: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.15.1" id="Judg.15.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.1 </span><span class="fq">Samson went to visit … his wife: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.31.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.15.2" id="Judg.15.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.2 </span><span class="fq">divorcing: </span><span class="ft">It was often very easy for a husband to divorce his wife.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.15.6" id="Judg.15.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.6 </span><span class="fq">and her father: </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and two ancient translations “and her family.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.15.8" id="Judg.15.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.8 </span><span class="fq">hacking … sword: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.15.9" id="Judg.15.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.9 </span><span class="fq">Judah: </span><span class="ft">Samson belonged to the Dan tribe, but his hideout in the cave at Etam Rock was in Judah, a few kilometers southwest of Bethlehem.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.15.9" id="Judg.15.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.9 </span><span class="fq">Jawbone: </span><span class="ft">Or “Lehi” (see verse 17).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.15.16" id="Judg.15.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.16 </span><span class="fq">I beat … again: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.15.17" id="Judg.15.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.17 </span><span class="fq">Jawbone Hill: </span><span class="ft">Or “Ramath-Lehi.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.15.19" id="Judg.15.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.19 </span><span class="fq">God sent … a rock: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.15.19" id="Judg.15.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.19 </span><span class="fq">Caller Spring: </span><span class="ft">Or “Enhakkore.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.15.20" id="Judg.15.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.20 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">See 2.16 and the note there.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.2" id="Judg.16.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.2 </span><span class="fq">guardrooms … gate: </span><span class="ft">The gate was often in a part of the town wall that was thicker and taller than the rest of the wall, and that had rooms where guards stayed when they were on duty.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.3" id="Judg.16.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.3 </span><span class="fq">Hebron: </span><span class="ft">About 65 kilometers from Gaza.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.5" id="Judg.16.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.5 </span><span class="fq">Philistine rulers: </span><span class="ft">There were five rulers, each one controlling part of Philistia.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.16.5" id="Judg.16.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.5 </span><span class="fq">silver: </span><span class="ft">About 65 kilograms of silver altogether.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.7" id="Judg.16.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.7 </span><span class="fq">new bowstrings … dried: </span><span class="ft">The string for a bow was often made from sinews or internal organs of animals. These strings were made while the animal tissues were still moist, and they became much stronger, once they were dry.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.13" id="Judg.16.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.13 </span><span class="fq">loom: </span><span class="ft">A large wooden frame on which cloth is woven.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.14" id="Judg.16.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.13,14 </span><span class="fq">If you weave … to a wall: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of one ancient translation; Hebrew “Weave my braids into the threads on a loom. She nailed the loom to a wall.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.17" id="Judg.16.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.17 </span><span class="fq">belonged to God: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 13.3-5.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.27" id="Judg.16.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.27 </span><span class="fq">3,000: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some manuscripts of one ancient translation “700.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.16.27" id="Judg.16.27!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.27 </span><span class="fq">They … him: </span><span class="ft">Samson may have been in a courtyard visible from the roof.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.28" id="Judg.16.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.28 </span><span class="fq">one of my eyes: </span><span class="ft">Or “my eyes.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.16.31" id="Judg.16.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.31 </span><span class="fq">buried him in his father's tomb: </span><span class="ft">Several family members were often buried in one tomb.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.16.31" id="Judg.16.31!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.31 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">See 2.16 and the note there.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.17.1" id="Judg.17.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.1 </span><span class="fq">Micah: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew also uses the longer form “Micaiah.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.17.2" id="Judg.17.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.2 </span><span class="fq">1,100 … silver: </span><span class="ft">About 12.5 kilograms.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.17.2" id="Judg.17.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.2 </span><span class="fq">curse … bless: </span><span class="ft">A curse could not be taken back, but it could be made powerless by a blessing.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.17.3-Judg.17.4" id="Judg.17.3-Judg.17.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.3,4 </span><span class="fq">200 pieces: </span><span class="ft">About 2.3 kilograms.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.17.3-Judg.17.4" id="Judg.17.3-Judg.17.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.3,4 </span><span class="fq">idol: </span><span class="ft">Probably carved from wood and covered with the silver.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.17.7-Judg.17.8" id="Judg.17.7-Judg.17.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.7,8 </span><span class="fq">place to live: </span><span class="ft">The people of the Levi tribe did not have a large area of land like the other tribes.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.17.7-Judg.17.8" id="Judg.17.7-Judg.17.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.7,8 </span><span class="fq">to find … priest: </span><span class="ft">Or “and was on his way to find a new place to live.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.18.7" id="Judg.18.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.7 </span><span class="fq">whose people … Sidon: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.18.7" id="Judg.18.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.7 </span><span class="fq">anyone else: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation has “the Arameans,” who were a short distance to the north.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.18.7" id="Judg.18.7!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.7 </span><span class="fq">which … Laish: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.18.11" id="Judg.18.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.11 </span><span class="fq">Eshtaol with their families: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Eshtaol” (see verse 21).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.18.12" id="Judg.18.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.12 </span><span class="fq">Dan's Camp: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 13.25.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.18.24" id="Judg.18.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.24 </span><span class="fq">gods: </span><span class="ft">Or “god.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.18.29" id="Judg.18.29!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.29 </span><span class="fq">Israel's: </span><span class="ft">Israel was another name for Jacob, the father of the twelve ancestors of the tribes of Israel.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.18.30-Judg.18.31" id="Judg.18.30-Judg.18.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.30,31 </span><span class="fq">place of worship: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “house of God,” which at this time was probably the sacred tent.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.18.30-Judg.18.31" id="Judg.18.30-Judg.18.31!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.30,31 </span><span class="fq">Moses: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of two ancient translations; the Standard Hebrew Text has “Manasseh,” but written in a special way that tells the reader “Moses” had been changed to “Manasseh.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.19.1" id="Judg.19.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.1 </span><span class="fq">a Levite: </span><span class="ft">Someone from the Levi tribe, which had no tribal lands of its own.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.19.1" id="Judg.19.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.1 </span><span class="fq">married: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.31.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.19.13" id="Judg.19.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.13 </span><span class="fq">Gibeah … Ramah: </span><span class="ft">It was about five kilometers from Jerusalem to Gibeah, and another five kilometers to Ramah.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.19.18" id="Judg.19.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.18 </span><span class="fq">spend the night: </span><span class="ft">People usually considered it a duty to ask travelers to spend the night in their homes, since there were often no other places to stay.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.19.21" id="Judg.19.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.21 </span><span class="fq">washed their feet: </span><span class="ft">This was a custom, since people wore open sandals and their feet would be dirty after walking on the dirt roads or working in the fields.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.19.24" id="Judg.19.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.24 </span><span class="fq">wife: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.31.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.19.26" id="Judg.19.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.26 </span><span class="fq">husband: </span><span class="ft">Or “owner”; the Hebrew word may mean that she was his slave and had no legal rights.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.19.28" id="Judg.19.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.28 </span><span class="fq">move: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “move. She was dead.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.19.30" id="Judg.19.30!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.29,30 </span><span class="fq">he told some messengers … since the day Israel left Egypt: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “he told some messengers, ‘Take one piece to each tribe of Israel.’ Everyone who saw a piece of the body said, ‘This is horrible! Nothing like this has ever happened since Israel left Egypt. Think of it! Let's talk it over and decide what to do.’ ”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.20.4" id="Judg.20.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.4 </span><span class="fq">wife: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.31.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.20.9-Judg.20.10" id="Judg.20.9-Judg.20.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.9,10 </span><span class="fq">ask God: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “use lots to decide”; small pieces of wood or stone called “lots” were used to find out what God wanted his people to do.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.20.9-Judg.20.10" id="Judg.20.9-Judg.20.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.9,10 </span><span class="fq">those men: </span><span class="ft">One Hebrew manuscript and one ancient translation; The Standard Hebrew text “the men of Geba.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.20.16" id="Judg.20.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.16 </span><span class="fq">sling a rock: </span><span class="ft">By using a sling made from a leather strap.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.20.18" id="Judg.20.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.18 </span><span class="fq">place … Bethel: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “beth-el,” which means “house of God.” This could refer to the town of Bethel, to the place of worship at Mizpah, or to the sacred tent at Shiloh (see 18.30,31).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.20.26-Judg.20.28" id="Judg.20.26-Judg.20.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.26-28 </span><span class="fq">place … Bethel: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “beth-el,” which means “house of God.” This could refer to the town of Bethel, to the place of worship at Mizpah, or to the sacred tent at Shiloh (see 18.30,31).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.20.26-Judg.20.28" id="Judg.20.26-Judg.20.28!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.26-28 </span><span class="fq">sacrifices … blessing: </span><span class="ft">See Leviticus 1–3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.20.26-Judg.20.28" id="Judg.20.26-Judg.20.28!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.26-28 </span><span class="fq">Phinehas: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.20.31-Judg.20.41" id="Judg.20.31-Judg.20.41!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.31-41 </span><span class="fq">west of Gibeah: </span><span class="ft">Three ancient translations; Hebrew “in a field at Geba.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.20.31-Judg.20.41" id="Judg.20.31-Judg.20.41!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.31-41 </span><span class="fq">over 25,000: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “25,100.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.20.43" id="Judg.20.43!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.42,43 </span><span class="fq">Men even came out … their attack: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.20.43" id="Judg.20.43!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.43 </span><span class="fq">Gibeah: </span><span class="ft">Or “Geba.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.20.45" id="Judg.20.45!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.45 </span><span class="fq">until … killed: </span><span class="ft">Or “as far as Gidom, killing.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.21.1" id="Judg.21.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.1 </span><span class="fq">the Israelites … Benjamin: </span><span class="ft">See 20.1-3.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.21.4" id="Judg.21.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.4 </span><span class="fq">sacrifices … blessing: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 20.26-28.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.21.12" id="Judg.21.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.12 </span><span class="fq">in Canaan: </span><span class="ft">Jabesh was in Gilead, across the Jordan River from the land of Canaan.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.21.22" id="Judg.21.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.22 </span><span class="fq">on: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 22.</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.1.1-Ruth.1.2" id="Ruth.1.1-Ruth.1.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1,2 </span><span class="fq">Moab: </span><span class="ft">The people of Moab worshiped idols and were usually enemies of the people of Israel.</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.1.11" id="Ruth.1.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.11 </span><span class="fq">for you to marry: </span><span class="ft">When a married man died and left no children, it was the custom for one of his brothers to marry his widow. Any children they had would then be thought of as those of the dead man, so that his family name would live on.</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.1.13" id="Ruth.1.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.13 </span><span class="fq">Life … me: </span><span class="ft">Or “I'm sorry that the LORD has turned against me and made life so hard for you.”</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.1.17" id="Ruth.1.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.17 </span><span class="fq">even by death: </span><span class="ft">Or “by anything but death.”</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.1.20" id="Ruth.1.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.20 </span><span class="fq">Mara: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew “Naomi” means “pleasant,” and “Mara” means “bitter.”</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.2.1-Ruth.2.3" id="Ruth.2.1-Ruth.2.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.1-3 </span><span class="fq">grain left … workers: </span><span class="ft">It was the custom at harvest time to leave some grain in the field for the poor to pick up (see Leviticus 19.10; 23.22).</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.2.7" id="Ruth.2.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.7 </span><span class="fq">she has … rest: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.2.20" id="Ruth.2.20!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.20 </span><span class="fq">He: </span><span class="ft">Or “The LORD.”</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.3.4" id="Ruth.3.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.4 </span><span class="fq">lift the cover … feet: </span><span class="ft">To ask for protection and possibly for marriage.</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.3.9" id="Ruth.3.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.9 </span><span class="fq">So … me: </span><span class="ft">To show that he would protect and take care of her.</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.3.16" id="Ruth.3.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.15,16 </span><span class="fq">When … her: </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and two ancient translations; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fq">“Boaz went back to town. </span><span class="fv">16</span> Naomi asked Ruth.”</span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.4.6" id="Ruth.4.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.6 </span><span class="fq">property … own: </span><span class="ft">This property would then have to be shared with Ruth and her children as well as with his own family.</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.4.12" id="Ruth.4.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.12 </span><span class="fq">Perez: </span><span class="ft">One of the sons of Judah; he was an ancestor of Boaz and of many others who lived in Bethlehem.</span></span>


bookid: Ruth
contenido:
<span verse_id="Ruth.4.15" id="Ruth.4.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.14,15 </span><span class="fq">We pray that … famous … </span><span class="ft"></span><span class="fv">15</span><span class="ft">He will: </span><span class="ft">Or “We pray that the LORD will be praised everywhere in Israel. </span><span class="fv">15</span> Your grandson will.”</span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.1" id="1Sam.1.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1 </span><span class="fq">Ramah: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has “Ramathaim,” a longer form of “Ramah” (see verse 19).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.2" id="1Sam.1.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.2 </span><span class="fq">two wives: </span><span class="ft">Having more than one wife was allowed in those times.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.3" id="1Sam.1.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.3 </span><span class="fq">Eli … priests: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, served the LORD as priests.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.4" id="1Sam.1.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.4 </span><span class="fq">meat: </span><span class="ft">For some sacrifices, like this one, only part of the meat was burned. Some was given to the priest, and the rest was eaten by the family and guests of the worshiper (see Leviticus 3.1-17; 7.11-18).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.5" id="1Sam.1.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.5 </span><span class="fq">even more, because: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “only one; he.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.7" id="1Sam.1.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.7 </span><span class="fq">house of the LORD: </span><span class="ft">Another name for the place of worship at Shiloh, which still may have been the sacred tent at this time.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.11" id="1Sam.1.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.11 </span><span class="fq">his hair … cut: </span><span class="ft">Never cutting the child's hair would be a sign that he would belong to the LORD (see Numbers 6.1,21, especially verse 5).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.20" id="1Sam.1.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.20 </span><span class="fq">him: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew “Samuel” sounds something like “Someone from God” or “The name of God” or “His name is God.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.23" id="1Sam.1.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.23 </span><span class="fq">the LORD … promised: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and two ancient translations; the Standard Hebrew Text “the LORD will do what he said.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.24-1Sam.1.25" id="1Sam.1.24-1Sam.1.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.24,25 </span><span class="fq">When it was the time of year to go to Shiloh again, Hannah and Elkanah: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation; the Standard Hebrew Text “she.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.1.24-1Sam.1.25" id="1Sam.1.24-1Sam.1.25!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.24,25 </span><span class="fq">a three-year-old bull: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and two ancient translations; the Standard Hebrew Text “three bulls.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.1.28" id="1Sam.1.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.28 </span><span class="fq">Elkanah: </span><span class="ft">Or “They” or “Samuel.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.2.2" id="1Sam.2.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.2 </span><span class="fq">god: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “holy one,” a term for supernatural beings or gods.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.2.2" id="1Sam.2.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.2 </span><span class="fq">mountain: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 2.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.2.15" id="1Sam.2.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.15 </span><span class="fq">sacrificed to the LORD: </span><span class="ft">The fat belonged to the LORD and was supposed to be burned as a sacrifice before the rest of the animal was cooked and eaten (see Leviticus 3.3,4,9,10,14,15).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.2.18" id="1Sam.2.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.18 </span><span class="fq">a special linen garment: </span><span class="ft">Either a loin cloth or a jacket or a vest worn only by priests.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.2.19" id="1Sam.2.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.19 </span><span class="fq">clothes: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word means a sleeveless coat or robe that was worn by priests. Samuel was a small child, but his mother made him clothes just like those worn by priests.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.2.22" id="1Sam.2.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.22 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation; the Standard Hebrew Text adds “He heard that his sons were even sleeping with the women who worked at the entrance to the sacred tent.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.2.28-1Sam.2.29" id="1Sam.2.28-1Sam.2.29!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.28,29 </span><span class="fq">don't respect: </span><span class="ft">The Standard Hebrew Text; the Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation “are greedy for.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.2.32" id="1Sam.2.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.32 </span><span class="fq">Your family: </span><span class="ft">Or “My house of worship.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.2.32" id="1Sam.2.32!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.31,32 </span><span class="fq">Not one … to Israel: </span><span class="ft">The Standard Hebrew Text; the Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation do not have these words.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.2.33" id="1Sam.2.33!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.33 </span><span class="fq">his: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation; the Standard Hebrew Text “your.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.2.33" id="1Sam.2.33!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.33 </span><span class="fq">die a violent death: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation; the Standard Hebrew Text “die.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.3.3" id="1Sam.3.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.3 </span><span class="fq">They … long: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “The lamp of God was still burning.” An olive oil lamp would go out after a few hours if the wick was not adjusted.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.3.13" id="1Sam.3.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.13 </span><span class="fq">refused … me: </span><span class="ft">Or “were insulting everyone.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.4.3" id="1Sam.4.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.3 </span><span class="fq">LORD: </span><span class="ft">Or “chest.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.4.18" id="1Sam.4.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.18 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word means that Eli may have been an army commander, a judge, and a priest.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.4.21-1Sam.4.22" id="1Sam.4.21-1Sam.4.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.21,22 </span><span class="fq">Ichabod: </span><span class="ft">Ichabod means “where is the glory?” or “there is no glory.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.5.6" id="1Sam.5.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.6 </span><span class="fq">sores … bodies: </span><span class="ft">Or “He struck them with bubonic plague.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.5.6" id="1Sam.5.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.6 </span><span class="fq">panic: </span><span class="ft">Two ancient translations add “Rats came from their ships, and people were dying right and left.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.6.1" id="1Sam.6.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.1 </span><span class="fq">months: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation adds “and rats were everywhere” or “and rats ate the crops.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.6.13" id="1Sam.6.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.13 </span><span class="fq">wheat: </span><span class="ft">The wheat harvest took place in May and June.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.6.18" id="1Sam.6.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.18 </span><span class="fq">stone: </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts “meadow” or “stream.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.6.19" id="1Sam.6.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.19 </span><span class="fq">70: </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts “70 men, 50,000 men.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.7.2" id="1Sam.7.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.2 </span><span class="fq">Israel … help: </span><span class="ft">Or “Israel turned to the LORD and begged him for help.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.7.12-1Sam.7.13" id="1Sam.7.12-1Sam.7.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.12,13 </span><span class="fq">Help Monument: </span><span class="ft">Or “Ebenezer.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.7.14" id="1Sam.7.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.14 </span><span class="fq">Amorites: </span><span class="ft">In this verse, the non-Israelite peoples of Canaan.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.7.15" id="1Sam.7.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.15 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word could mean an army commander, a judge, and a religious leader.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.8.11" id="1Sam.8.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.11 </span><span class="fq">others … chariot: </span><span class="ft">These men were probably his bodyguards.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.9.5" id="1Sam.9.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.5 </span><span class="fq">Zuph: </span><span class="ft">Samuel's father Elkanah was from the Zuph clan.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.9.11" id="1Sam.9.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.11 </span><span class="fq">water: </span><span class="ft">Towns were often built on a hill near a source of water, which would often be down in the valley outside of the town. It was usually the job of women to get water for their family.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.9.16" id="1Sam.9.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.16 </span><span class="fq">olive oil: </span><span class="ft">Olive oil was poured on the head of someone who was chosen to be a priest, a prophet, or a king.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.9.20" id="1Sam.9.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.20 </span><span class="fq">Everything … family: </span><span class="ft">Or “You and your family are what all Israel wants.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.9.25" id="1Sam.9.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.25 </span><span class="fq">roof: </span><span class="ft">Guests often slept on the flat roof of their host's house, where it was cool and breezy.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.9.26" id="1Sam.9.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.25,26 </span><span class="fq">A bed was set … morning: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Samuel spoke with Saul on the flat roof of his house. They got up early the next morning, around sunrise, and.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.10.1" id="1Sam.10.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.1 </span><span class="fq">kissed: </span><span class="ft">Relatives or close friends often greeted one another with a kiss. But this may have been a ceremonial kiss after Samuel poured oil on Saul's head to show that he was to be the king.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.10.1" id="1Sam.10.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.1 </span><span class="fq">people: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation adds “You will rule the LORD's people and save them from their enemies who are all around them. These things will prove that what I say is true.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.10.5" id="1Sam.10.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.5 </span><span class="fq">Gibeah: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Gibeah of God,” which may or may not have been the same Gibeah as Saul's hometown.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.10.6" id="1Sam.10.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.6 </span><span class="fq">take … you: </span><span class="ft">Or “will take control of you in a powerful way.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.10.10" id="1Sam.10.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.10 </span><span class="fq">suddenly … him: </span><span class="ft">Or “came over him in a powerful way.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.10.12" id="1Sam.10.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.12 </span><span class="fq">Why not … anyone else: </span><span class="ft">Or “Sure he is! He's probably the leader of the prophets!” or “How can he be? Those prophets are nobodies!”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.11.1" id="1Sam.11.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.27—11.1 </span><span class="fq">But Saul … time: </span><span class="ft">The Standard Hebrew Text; the Dead Sea Scrolls add “King Nahash of Ammon was making the people of Gad and Reuben miserable. He was poking out everyone's right eye, and no one in Israel could stop him. He had poked out the right eye of every Israelite man who lived east of the Jordan River. Only 7,000 men had escaped from the Ammonites, and they had gone into the town of Jabesh in Gilead. About a month later.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.11.7" id="1Sam.11.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.7 </span><span class="fq">the: </span><span class="ft">Or “some other.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.11.8" id="1Sam.11.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.8 </span><span class="fq">300,000 … 30,000: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and some ancient translations have different numbers.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.11.15" id="1Sam.11.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.15 </span><span class="fq">sacrificed … blessing: </span><span class="ft">This kind of sacrifice is described in Leviticus 3; 7.11-36; 19.5-8. People who offered these sacrifices were allowed to eat most of the meat, and they could invite others to share it with them.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.12.11" id="1Sam.12.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.11 </span><span class="fq">Gideon: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Jerubbaal,” another name for “Gideon.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.12.14" id="1Sam.12.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.14 </span><span class="fq">If … him: </span><span class="ft">Or “If you and your king want things to go well for you, then you must worship the LORD.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.12.15" id="1Sam.12.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.15 </span><span class="fq">and your king: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “and your ancestors” or “as he was against your ancestors.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.12.17" id="1Sam.12.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.17 </span><span class="fq">the dry season: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “time for wheat harvest,” which was usually in the spring, the beginning of the dry season.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.1" id="1Sam.13.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.1 </span><span class="fq">a young man: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text; several manuscripts of one ancient translation have “thirty years old.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.2" id="1Sam.13.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.1,2 </span><span class="fq">for … Then: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.13.2" id="1Sam.13.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2 </span><span class="fq">everyone else: </span><span class="ft">People who were not full-time soldiers, but fought together with the army when the nation was in danger.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.13.2" id="1Sam.13.2!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2 </span><span class="fq">Jonathan: </span><span class="ft">Saul's son (see verse 16).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.13.2" id="1Sam.13.2!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2 </span><span class="fq">Michmash … Bethel … Gibeah: </span><span class="ft">These three towns form a triangle, with Bethel to the north.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.3" id="1Sam.13.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.3 </span><span class="fq">Geba: </span><span class="ft">Geba was between Gibeah and Michmash.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.13.3" id="1Sam.13.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.3 </span><span class="fq">led an attack … destroyed, but: </span><span class="ft">Or “killed the Philistine military governor who lived at Geba, and.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.4" id="1Sam.13.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.4 </span><span class="fq">destroyed … Geba: </span><span class="ft">Or “killed the Philistine military governor who lived at Geba.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.5" id="1Sam.13.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.5 </span><span class="fq">3,000: </span><span class="ft">Some ancient translations; Hebrew “30,000.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.13.5" id="1Sam.13.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.5 </span><span class="fq">Beth-Aven: </span><span class="ft">This Beth-Aven was probably located about one and a half kilometers southwest of Michmash, between Michmash and Geba.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.6" id="1Sam.13.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.6 </span><span class="fq">in … bushes: </span><span class="ft">Or “in cracks in the rocks.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.13.6" id="1Sam.13.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.6 </span><span class="fq">tombs: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word may mean a room cut into solid rock and used as a burial place, or it may mean a cellar.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.7" id="1Sam.13.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.7 </span><span class="fq">Still others: </span><span class="ft">This translates a Hebrew word which may be used of wandering groups of people who sometimes became outlaws or hired soldiers (see also 14.21).</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.8" id="1Sam.13.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.8 </span><span class="fq">Samuel … to do: </span><span class="ft">See 10.8.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.15" id="1Sam.13.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.15 </span><span class="fq">Then Samuel … counted them: </span><span class="ft">Two ancient translations; Hebrew “Then Samuel left Gilgal and went to Gibeah in Benjamin. Saul counted his army.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21" id="1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.20,21 </span><span class="fq">cattle prod: </span><span class="ft">A pole used to poke cattle and make them move.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21" id="1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.20,21 </span><span class="fq">sickles: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “plow-blades.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21" id="1Sam.13.20-1Sam.13.21!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.20,21 </span><span class="fq">pitchforks: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.1-1Sam.14.3" id="1Sam.14.1-1Sam.14.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.1-3 </span><span class="fq">Geba: </span><span class="ft">Or “Gibeah.” In 13.16 and 14.4,5 the name “Geba” is used, while 14.1-3,16 have “Gibeah.” In ancient Hebrew writing there is only one letter different between the two words.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.14.1-1Sam.14.3" id="1Sam.14.1-1Sam.14.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.1-3 </span><span class="fq">fruit tree: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “pomegranate tree.” A pomegranate is a bright red fruit that looks like an apple.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Sam.14.1-1Sam.14.3" id="1Sam.14.1-1Sam.14.3!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.1-3 </span><span class="fq">threshing place: </span><span class="ft">Or “in Migron.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.4-1Sam.14.5" id="1Sam.14.4-1Sam.14.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.4,5 </span><span class="fq">Shiny Cliff … Thornbush Cliff: </span><span class="ft">Or “Bozez Cliff … Seneh Cliff.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Sam
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Sam.14.13" id="1Sam.14.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.13 </span><span class="fq">Jonathan killed … from behind: </span><span class="ft">Or “Jonathan attacked the Philistines with his sword, and the soldier killed those who fell to the ground wounded.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.52.15" id="Isa.52.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.15 </span><span class="fq">My … me: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “The nations will be amazed at him.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.52.15" id="Isa.52.15!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">52.15 </span><span class="fq">kings … wonder: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.53.8" id="Isa.53.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">53.8 </span><span class="fq">my people: </span><span class="ft">Or “his people.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.53.9" id="Isa.53.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">53.9 </span><span class="fq">but he … people: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.53.10" id="Isa.53.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">53.10 </span><span class="fq">The LORD … descendants: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.54.11" id="Isa.54.11!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">54.11 </span><span class="fq">with precious stones: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.54.12" id="Isa.54.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">54.12 </span><span class="fq">fortresses: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.57.2" id="Isa.57.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">57.1,2 </span><span class="fq">Evil … God: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.57.6" id="Isa.57.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">57.6 </span><span class="fq">You have … stone: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.57.8" id="Isa.57.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">57.8 </span><span class="fq">them: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 8.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.57.9" id="Isa.57.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">57.9 </span><span class="fq">the god Molech: </span><span class="ft">Or “the king.” In Hebrew “Molech” and “king” sound alike.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.57.11" id="Isa.57.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">57.11 </span><span class="fq">so long: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.57.19" id="Isa.57.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">57.18,19 </span><span class="fq">until … praises: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.57.19" id="Isa.57.19!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">57.19 </span><span class="fq">heal you: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.58.3" id="Isa.58.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">58.3 </span><span class="fq">you think … yourselves: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.58.8" id="Isa.58.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">58.8 </span><span class="fq">honesty: </span><span class="ft">Or “honest leader.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.59.10" id="Isa.59.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">59.10 </span><span class="fq">We can … dead: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.60.5" id="Isa.60.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">60.5 </span><span class="fq">swell with pride: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.60.6" id="Isa.60.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">60.6 </span><span class="fq">Midian … Ephah: </span><span class="ft">Midian was the ancestor of a nomadic tribe of the Arabian desert, east of the Gulf of Aqaba. Ephah was a clan within the tribe of Midian.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.60.6" id="Isa.60.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">60.6 </span><span class="fq">Sheba: </span><span class="ft">Perhaps a place in what is now southwest Arabia. The Queen of Sheba brought gifts to Solomon (1 Kings 10.1-13).</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.60.7" id="Isa.60.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">60.7 </span><span class="fq">Kedar … Nebaioth: </span><span class="ft">Regions in northern Arabia.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.60.9" id="Isa.60.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">60.9 </span><span class="fq">On … LORD: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.60.9" id="Isa.60.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">60.9 </span><span class="fq">Seagoing ships: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.16.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.61.6" id="Isa.61.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">61.6 </span><span class="fq">and … famous: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.61.8" id="Isa.61.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">61.8 </span><span class="fq">But … injustice: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.62.5" id="Isa.62.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">62.5 </span><span class="fq">Your … land: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.63.1" id="Isa.63.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">63.1 </span><span class="fq">Bozrah: </span><span class="ft">The main city of Edom.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.63.2" id="Isa.63.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">63.2 </span><span class="fq">trampling on grapes: </span><span class="ft">This is one way that grapes were crushed to make them into juice.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.63.9" id="Isa.63.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">63.9 </span><span class="fq">It … them: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.63.11" id="Isa.63.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">63.11 </span><span class="fq">But … Moses: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.63.11" id="Isa.63.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">63.11 </span><span class="fq">the LORD: </span><span class="ft">Or “Moses.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.63.11" id="Isa.63.11!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">63.11 </span><span class="fq">he: </span><span class="ft">Or “Moses.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.63.14" id="Isa.63.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">63.14 </span><span class="fq">His … valley: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.63.15" id="Isa.63.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">63.15 </span><span class="fq">us: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “me.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.63.18" id="Isa.63.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">63.18 </span><span class="fq">For … us: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.64.2" id="Isa.64.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">64.2 </span><span class="fq">Be … boil: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.64.5" id="Isa.64.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">64.5 </span><span class="fq">saved: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 5.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.64.7" id="Isa.64.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">64.7 </span><span class="fq">and let … away: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.65.1" id="Isa.65.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">65.1 </span><span class="fq">refused … me: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.65.4" id="Isa.65.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">65.4 </span><span class="fq">burial … pigs: </span><span class="ft">Coming in contact with the dead or eating the meat of pigs made a person unacceptable to God.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.65.10" id="Isa.65.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">65.10 </span><span class="fq">coastlands of Sharon … Achor Valley: </span><span class="ft">Sharon is the coastal plain on the west, and Achor Valley is in the east near Jericho. These two places stand for the whole country.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.65.15" id="Isa.65.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">65.15 </span><span class="fq">new names: </span><span class="ft">The giving of a new name suggests the beginning of a new life.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.65.15" id="Isa.65.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">65.15 </span><span class="fq">But I … servants: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.65.23" id="Isa.65.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">65.23 </span><span class="fq">their children … diseases: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.66.2" id="Isa.66.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.2 </span><span class="fq">that's … be: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.66.3" id="Isa.66.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.3 </span><span class="fq">You sacrifice oxen … idols: </span><span class="ft">Or “Sacrificing oxen to me is the same as murder; sacrificing lambs to me is the same as sacrificing dogs to other gods; offering grain to me is the same as offering pigs' blood to idols; and burning incense to me is the same as praising idols.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.66.4" id="Isa.66.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.4 </span><span class="fq">punish: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.66.5" id="Isa.66.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.5 </span><span class="fq">Some … happy: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.66.17" id="Isa.66.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.17 </span><span class="fq">Some … goddess: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.66.18" id="Isa.66.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.18 </span><span class="fq">I … come: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.66.19" id="Isa.66.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.19 </span><span class="fq">by … do: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.66.19" id="Isa.66.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.19 </span><span class="fq">Pul: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “Put,” a country in Africa, but neither the location of Pul or Put is known for certain.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.66.19" id="Isa.66.19!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.19 </span><span class="fq">Meshech: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “those who use bows and arrows.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.66.19" id="Isa.66.19!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.19 </span><span class="fq">Tarshish … Javan: </span><span class="ft">Tarshish may have been a Phoenician city in Spain; Put (see note on Pul) and Lud were African people; Meshech and Tubal were regions south or southeast of the Black Sea; the Javan were people of Asia Minor and the Greek islands.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.66.20" id="Isa.66.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">66.20 </span><span class="fq">camels: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.1.2" id="Jer.1.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.2 </span><span class="fq">Josiah: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 640–609 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.1.3" id="Jer.1.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.3 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 609–598 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.1.3" id="Jer.1.3!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.3 </span><span class="fq">fifth month: </span><span class="ft">Ab, the fifth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-July to mid-August.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.1.3" id="Jer.1.3!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.3 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 598–586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.1.12" id="Jer.1.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.11,12 </span><span class="fq">almonds … rise early: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew “almonds that ripen early” sounds like “always rise early.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.2.4" id="Jer.2.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.4 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">After the nation was divided, the northern kingdom was called “Israel,” and the southern kingdom was called “Judah” (see 1 Kings 12.1-20). In 722 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span> the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom, and Judah was all that was left. And so in the book of Jeremiah the name “Israel” is most often used of the southern kingdom.</span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.2.18" id="Jer.2.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.18 </span><span class="fq">trusted … Assyria: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “went to Egypt and drank from the Shihor River, and you went to Assyria and drank from the Euphrates River.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.2.20" id="Jer.2.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.20 </span><span class="fq">having sex … trees: </span><span class="ft">In some Canaanite religions, worshipers had sex with temple prostitutes, who represented their gods; many of the Canaanite places of worship were on hilltops or under large trees.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.2.23" id="Jer.2.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.23 </span><span class="fq">Baal: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “the Baals,” probably because the god Baal was believed to be present in different forms at different places of worship.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.2.23" id="Jer.2.23!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.23 </span><span class="fq">Hinnom Valley: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “the valley” (see 7.31-32; 19.1-6).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.2.37" id="Jer.2.37!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.37 </span><span class="fq">in great sadness: </span><span class="ft">Or “as prisoners.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.3.2" id="Jer.3.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.2 </span><span class="fq">hilltop … sex: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.20.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.3.6" id="Jer.3.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.6 </span><span class="fq">Josiah: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 640–609 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.3.6" id="Jer.3.6!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.6 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">The northern kingdom (see the note at 2.4).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.3.6" id="Jer.3.6!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.6 </span><span class="fq">prostitute … trees: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.20.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.3.16" id="Jer.3.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.16 </span><span class="fq">make a new one: </span><span class="ft">The sacred chest was probably destroyed or taken away by the Babylonians when they captured Jerusalem in 586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.3.17" id="Jer.3.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.16,17 </span><span class="fq">sacred chest … throne: </span><span class="ft">The sacred chest was thought to be God's throne on earth.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.3.24" id="Jer.3.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.24 </span><span class="fq">that shameful god Baal: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “The Shame,” which was sometimes used as a way of making fun of the Canaanite god Baal.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.4.5" id="Jer.4.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.5 </span><span class="fq">Judah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Judah and Jerusalem.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.4.8" id="Jer.4.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.8 </span><span class="fq">sackcloth: </span><span class="ft">A rough, dark-colored cloth made from goat or camel hair and used to make grain sacks. It was worn in times of trouble or sorrow.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.4.11-Jer.4.12" id="Jer.4.11-Jer.4.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.11,12 </span><span class="fq">a welcome breeze: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “a wind to blow away the husks.” Farmers used a special shovel to pitch grain and husks into the air. Wind would blow away the light husks, and the grain would fall back to the ground, where it could be gathered up.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.4.15" id="Jer.4.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.15 </span><span class="fq">Ephraim … Dan: </span><span class="ft">The hills of Ephraim were to the north of Jerusalem, and Dan was even farther north. They would be reached by the invading army first.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.5.28" id="Jer.5.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.28 </span><span class="fq">refuse to help: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.5.31" id="Jer.5.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.31 </span><span class="fq">give … god: </span><span class="ft">Or “tell lies.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.5.31" id="Jer.5.31!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.31 </span><span class="fq">don't … me: </span><span class="ft">Or “don't care what I want.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.6.3" id="Jer.6.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.2,3 </span><span class="fq">Jerusalem … grass: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.6.26" id="Jer.6.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.26 </span><span class="fq">sackcloth: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 4.8.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.7.1-Jer.7.3" id="Jer.7.1-Jer.7.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.1-3 </span><span class="fq">temple: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” another name for the temple.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.7.1-Jer.7.3" id="Jer.7.1-Jer.7.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.1-3 </span><span class="fq">let you … own country: </span><span class="ft">Or “live here with you.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.7.18" id="Jer.7.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.18 </span><span class="fq">Queen of Heaven: </span><span class="ft">Probably another name for the goddess Astarte.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.8.4" id="Jer.8.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.4 </span><span class="fq">if you take … go back: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.8.6" id="Jer.8.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.6 </span><span class="fq">you run down the wrong road: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.8.13" id="Jer.8.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.13 </span><span class="fq">I will wipe them out: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.8.13" id="Jer.8.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.13 </span><span class="fq">They have not … them: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.9.11" id="Jer.9.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.11 </span><span class="fq">jackals: </span><span class="ft">Desert animals related to wolves, but smaller.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.9.14" id="Jer.9.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.14 </span><span class="fq">Baal: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.23.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.9.15" id="Jer.9.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.15 </span><span class="fq">poison to eat and drink: </span><span class="ft">Or “bitter disappointment to eat, and tears to drink.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.9.17" id="Jer.9.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.17 </span><span class="fq">women … weep at funerals: </span><span class="ft">Or “the women who weep for Baal”; the god Baal was believed to have died and come back to life, and some women would go to places of worship and weep over the death of Baal.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.9.25-Jer.9.26" id="Jer.9.25-Jer.9.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.25,26 </span><span class="fq">the tribes of the desert: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.10.18" id="Jer.10.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.18 </span><span class="fq">like a rock from a sling: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.10.22" id="Jer.10.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.22 </span><span class="fq">jackals: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 9.11.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.11.10" id="Jer.11.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.10 </span><span class="fq">Israel … Judah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.4.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.11.15" id="Jer.11.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.15 </span><span class="fq">celebrating: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 15.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.11.21" id="Jer.11.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.21 </span><span class="fq">Anathoth: </span><span class="ft">Jeremiah's hometown (see 1.1).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.12.4" id="Jer.12.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.4 </span><span class="fq">God can't see the sins we commit: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “He won't live to see what happens to us.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.12.9" id="Jer.12.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.9 </span><span class="fq">My people … other hawks: </span><span class="ft">Or “My land has become a hyena's den with vultures circling above.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.13.4" id="Jer.13.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.4 </span><span class="fq">Parah: </span><span class="ft">Or “the Euphrates River.” Parah was a village about nine kilometers northeast of Jerusalem.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.13.9" id="Jer.13.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.9 </span><span class="fq">I will use Babylonia to: </span><span class="ft">Or “that's how I'm going to.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.13.18" id="Jer.13.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.18 </span><span class="fq">mother: </span><span class="ft">The king's mother usually had an important position in the royal court.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.13.18" id="Jer.13.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.18 </span><span class="fq">and remove their crowns: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.13.21" id="Jer.13.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.21 </span><span class="fq">You once … rule you: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.13.26" id="Jer.13.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.26 </span><span class="fq">prostitute: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.20.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.14.3" id="Jer.14.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.3 </span><span class="fq">storage pits for water: </span><span class="ft">Since water was scarce, pits were dug into solid rock for collecting and storing rainwater. These pits were called “cisterns.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.14.4" id="Jer.14.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.4 </span><span class="fq">cracks … ground: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.14.6" id="Jer.14.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.6 </span><span class="fq">sniff the air: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “sniff the air, like jackals” (see the note at 9.11).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.14.12" id="Jer.14.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.12 </span><span class="fq">go without eating: </span><span class="ft">The people of Israel sometimes went without eating to show sorrow for their sins.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.14.12" id="Jer.14.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.12 </span><span class="fq">sacrifices to please me: </span><span class="ft">These sacrifices have traditionally been called “whole burnt offerings” because the whole animal was burned on the altar. A main purpose of such sacrifices was to please the LORD with the smell of the sacrifice, and so in the CEV they are sometimes called “sacrifices to please the LORD.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.14.12" id="Jer.14.12!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.12 </span><span class="fq">sacrifices … to give thanks: </span><span class="ft">These sacrifices have traditionally been called “grain offerings.” A main purpose of such sacrifices was to thank the LORD with a gift of grain, and so in the CEV they are sometimes called “sacrifices to give thanks to the LORD.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.14.16" id="Jer.14.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.16 </span><span class="fq">dead bodies … bury them: </span><span class="ft">A proper burial was considered very important.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.14.18" id="Jer.14.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.18 </span><span class="fq">go about … has happened: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.15.4" id="Jer.15.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.4 </span><span class="fq">the horrible things: </span><span class="ft">See 2 Kings 21.1-16.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.15.4" id="Jer.15.4!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.4 </span><span class="fq">Manasseh: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Manasseh son of Hezekiah”; he ruled 687–642 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.15.11" id="Jer.15.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.11 </span><span class="fq">help: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 11.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.15.14" id="Jer.15.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.14 </span><span class="fq">that cannot be put out: </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts “against you.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.15.14" id="Jer.15.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.14 </span><span class="fq">I will make … land: </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts “I will make your enemies go through to a land you don't know about.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.16.6" id="Jer.16.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.6 </span><span class="fq">mourn and show their sorrow by cutting themselves or shaving their heads: </span><span class="ft">A custom in some Canaanite religions.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.17.1" id="Jer.17.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.1 </span><span class="fq">carved on the corners of your altars: </span><span class="ft">When sacrifices were offered to the LORD to ask him to forgive sins, some of the blood was smeared on the corners of the altar (see Leviticus 4.7,18-20,25, 26,30, 31,34, 35; 16.18). But now the LORD refuses to accept these sacrifices.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.17.3" id="Jer.17.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.3 </span><span class="fq">enemies: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verses 2,3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.17.4" id="Jer.17.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.4 </span><span class="fq">You will lose: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.17.13" id="Jer.17.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.13 </span><span class="fq">reject … dust: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.17.16" id="Jer.17.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.16 </span><span class="fq">you chose … punish them: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.17.26" id="Jer.17.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.26 </span><span class="fq">Judah and Benjamin: </span><span class="ft">These two tribes made up the southern kingdom of Judah.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.17.26" id="Jer.17.26!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.26 </span><span class="fq">sacrifices to please me and to give me thanks: </span><span class="ft">See the notes at 14.12.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.18.14" id="Jer.18.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.14 </span><span class="fq">dry: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 14.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.19.2" id="Jer.19.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.2 </span><span class="fq">Potsherd: </span><span class="ft">A piece of broken pottery.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.19.7" id="Jer.19.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.7 </span><span class="fq">ruin: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew “ruin” sounds like “jar” (see verse 1).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.20.2" id="Jer.20.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.2 </span><span class="fq">hit me: </span><span class="ft">Or “beat me up” or “had me beaten up.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.20.2" id="Jer.20.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.2 </span><span class="fq">in chains: </span><span class="ft">Or “in the stocks” (a wooden frame with holes for the hands, neck, or feet of a prisoner) or “in a prison cell.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.20.2" id="Jer.20.2!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.2 </span><span class="fq">the Benjamin Gate in the LORD's temple: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “the upper Benjamin Gate in the temple”; the lower Benjamin Gate may have been the city gate of that name.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.20.3" id="Jer.20.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.3 </span><span class="fq">Afraid-of-Everything: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Magor-Missabib.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.21.1" id="Jer.21.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.1 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.21.2" id="Jer.21.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.2 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 605–562 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.21.13" id="Jer.21.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.13 </span><span class="fq">Jerusalem … valleys: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.21.14" id="Jer.21.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.14 </span><span class="fq">your palace: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “the forest”; the largest room in the king's palace was known as Forest Hall (see 1 Kings 7.2,3).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.22.10" id="Jer.22.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.10 </span><span class="fq">King Josiah … him: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “don't mourn for the dead one,” meaning King Josiah, who ruled 640–609 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.22.10" id="Jer.22.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.10 </span><span class="fq">his son King Jehoahaz … country: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “the one who was dragged off to another country,” meaning King Jehoahaz, who ruled for three months in 609 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.22.11-Jer.22.12" id="Jer.22.11-Jer.22.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.11,12 </span><span class="fq">Jehoahaz: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Shallum,” another name for Jehoahaz.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.22.13" id="Jer.22.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.13 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.22.20" id="Jer.22.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.20 </span><span class="fq">nations: </span><span class="ft">Or “gods.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.22.23" id="Jer.22.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.23 </span><span class="fq">who live in the palace paneled with cedar: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “who live in Lebanon and who nest among the cedars,” which probably means Forest Hall in the royal palace at Jerusalem, which was paneled with cedar and had cedar columns and a cedar ceiling, all from Lebanon (see 1 Kings 7.2,3).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.22.24" id="Jer.22.24!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.24 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Coniah,” another form of Jehoiachin's name; he ruled for three months in 598 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.22.24" id="Jer.22.24!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.24 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.22.25" id="Jer.22.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.25 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.22.26" id="Jer.22.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.26 </span><span class="fq">mother: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 13.18.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.23.9" id="Jer.23.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.9 </span><span class="fq">tremble: </span><span class="ft">Or “become weak.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.23.10" id="Jer.23.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.10 </span><span class="fq">deserts: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 10.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.23.14" id="Jer.23.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.14 </span><span class="fq">in marriage: </span><span class="ft">Or “to me.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.23.14" id="Jer.23.14!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.14 </span><span class="fq">never tell the truth: </span><span class="ft">Or “worship other gods.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.23.14" id="Jer.23.14!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.14 </span><span class="fq">Sodom and Gomorrah: </span><span class="ft">Two cities that the LORD destroyed because their people were so evil (see Genesis 18.16—19.29).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.23.18" id="Jer.23.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.18 </span><span class="fq">a meeting of my council in heaven: </span><span class="ft">Sometimes, prophets had visions of the LORD meeting with his angels (see 1 Kings 22.19-23).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.23.33" id="Jer.23.33!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.33 </span><span class="fq">news … nuisance: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for “news” in verses 33-38 is the same as “nuisance” and is related to “pick up” in verse 39.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.23.33" id="Jer.23.33!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.33 </span><span class="fq">You people are a nuisance to the LORD, and he: </span><span class="ft">Two ancient translations; Hebrew “Does the LORD have news for us? He.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.23.39" id="Jer.23.39!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.39 </span><span class="fq">pick you up: </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts and three ancient translations; most Hebrew manuscripts “forget you completely.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.24.1" id="Jer.24.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.1 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.24.1" id="Jer.24.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.1 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Jeconiah,” another form of Jehoiachin's name; he ruled for three months in 598 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.24.8" id="Jer.24.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.8 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 598–586 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.25.1-Jer.25.2" id="Jer.25.1-Jer.25.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.1,2 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim … Judah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.25.1-Jer.25.2" id="Jer.25.1-Jer.25.2!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.1,2 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.25.3" id="Jer.25.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.3 </span><span class="fq">Josiah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Josiah son of Amon”; Josiah ruled 640–609 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.25.20" id="Jer.25.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.20 </span><span class="fq">what was left of Ashdod: </span><span class="ft">It was defeated by the king of Egypt after being surrounded for 29 years.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.25.23-Jer.25.24" id="Jer.25.23-Jer.25.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.23,24 </span><span class="fq">the tribes of the Arabian Desert: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.25.26" id="Jer.25.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.26 </span><span class="fq">Babylonia: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Sheshach,” a secret way of writing “Babylonia.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.25.34" id="Jer.25.34!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.34 </span><span class="fq">You'll shatter … floor: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.25.36-Jer.25.37" id="Jer.25.36-Jer.25.37!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">25.36,37 </span><span class="fq">anger turns: </span><span class="ft">Or “anger and enemy armies turn.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.26.1" id="Jer.26.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.1 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.26.6" id="Jer.26.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.6 </span><span class="fq">Shiloh: </span><span class="ft">The sacred tent had once stood at Shiloh.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.26.10" id="Jer.26.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.10 </span><span class="fq">new gate … trial: </span><span class="ft">Public trials were often held in an open area at a gate of a city, palace, or temple.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.26.18" id="Jer.26.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.18 </span><span class="fq">Hezekiah: </span><span class="ft">Ruled 716–687 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.26.18" id="Jer.26.18!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.18 </span><span class="fq">Jerusalem … stands: </span><span class="ft">See Micah 3.12.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.26.20-Jer.26.24" id="Jer.26.20-Jer.26.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">26.20-24 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.27.1-Jer.27.2" id="Jer.27.1-Jer.27.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">27.1,2 </span><span class="fq">Not long after Zedekiah became king of Judah: </span><span class="ft">A few manuscripts and one ancient translation; most Hebrew manuscripts “Not long after Jehoiakim became king of Judah”; most manuscripts of another ancient translation do not have these words. Jehoiakim ruled 609–598 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span>, and Zedekiah ruled 598–586 <span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.27.1-Jer.27.2" id="Jer.27.1-Jer.27.2!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">27.1,2 </span><span class="fq">yoke: </span><span class="ft">A wooden collar that fits around the neck of an ox, so the ox can be made to pull a plow or a cart.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.27.3" id="Jer.27.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">27.3 </span><span class="fq">a message: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “them.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.27.6-Jer.27.7" id="Jer.27.6-Jer.27.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">27.6,7 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.27.19-Jer.27.21" id="Jer.27.19-Jer.27.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">27.19-21 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Jeconiah” (see the note at 24.1).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.28.1" id="Jer.28.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">28.1 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.28.1" id="Jer.28.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">28.1 </span><span class="fq">Later … king: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.28.2" id="Jer.28.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">28.2 </span><span class="fq">yoke: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 27.1,2.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.28.2" id="Jer.28.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">28.2 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.28.4" id="Jer.28.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">28.4 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Jeconiah” (see the note at 24.1).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.28.9" id="Jer.28.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">28.9 </span><span class="fq">We will … said: </span><span class="ft">See Deuteronomy 18.21,22.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.29.1-Jer.29.2" id="Jer.29.1-Jer.29.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.1,2 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.29.1-Jer.29.2" id="Jer.29.1-Jer.29.2!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.1,2 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiachin: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Jeconiah” (see the note at 24.1).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.29.3" id="Jer.29.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.3 </span><span class="fq">Elasah and Gemariah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.29.3" id="Jer.29.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.3 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.29.8-Jer.29.9" id="Jer.29.8-Jer.29.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.8,9 </span><span class="fq">their dreams: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “your dreams.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.29.24-Jer.29.25" id="Jer.29.24-Jer.29.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.24,25 </span><span class="fq">Shemaiah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Shemaiah, who came from the town of Nehelam.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.29.26" id="Jer.29.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">29.26 </span><span class="fq">in chains: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 20.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.30.1-Jer.30.2" id="Jer.30.1-Jer.30.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">30.1,2 </span><span class="fq">scroll: </span><span class="ft">A roll of paper or special leather used for writing on.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.30.3" id="Jer.30.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">30.3 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">The northern kingdom.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.30.8" id="Jer.30.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">30.8 </span><span class="fq">yokes: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 27.1,2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.30.10" id="Jer.30.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">30.10 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">The people of the northern and southern kingdoms.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.30.18" id="Jer.30.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">30.18 </span><span class="fq">Jerusalem … palace: </span><span class="ft">Or “Your towns lie in ruins, but you will rebuild them, and your homes will be where they were before.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.31.2" id="Jer.31.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.2 </span><span class="fq">In the desert … same for you: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.31.3" id="Jer.31.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.3 </span><span class="fq">Some time … me: </span><span class="ft">Or “The LORD appeared to me from far away.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.31.8" id="Jer.31.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.8 </span><span class="fq">Babylonia: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “that country in the north,” referring to Babylonia.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.31.9" id="Jer.31.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.9 </span><span class="fq">level: </span><span class="ft">Or “straight.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.31.9" id="Jer.31.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.9 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text also has “Ephraim,” the leading tribe of the northern kingdom of Israel, which sometimes stands for the whole northern kingdom.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.31.15" id="Jer.31.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.15 </span><span class="fq">In Ramah: </span><span class="ft">Or “In the hills.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.31.15" id="Jer.31.15!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.15 </span><span class="fq">Rachel … children: </span><span class="ft">Rachel was one of the wives of Jacob, the ancestor of the nation of Israel. She was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin. Joseph's two sons Ephraim and Manasseh were the ancestors of the leading tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.31.18" id="Jer.31.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.18 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Ephraim” (see the note at 31.9).</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.31.22" id="Jer.31.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.22 </span><span class="fq">I will make sure … a woman protecting a man: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.31.26" id="Jer.31.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.26 </span><span class="fq">and when they sleep … refreshed: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.31.40" id="Jer.31.40!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">31.40 </span><span class="fq">that disgusting Hinnom Valley: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the fatty ashes,” which probably refers to Hinnom Valley, just southwest of Jerusalem, where human sacrifices had been offered to foreign gods.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.32.1" id="Jer.32.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">32.1 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.32.1" id="Jer.32.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">32.1 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.32.7" id="Jer.32.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">32.7 </span><span class="fq">you have the right … in the family: </span><span class="ft">See Leviticus 25.25-32.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.32.10-Jer.32.11" id="Jer.32.10-Jer.32.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">32.10,11 </span><span class="fq">signed the official copy, which was folded and tied, before being sealed shut with hot wax: </span><span class="ft">The signing was actually done by pressing a carved clay stamp (called a “seal”) into the hot wax, leaving the design in the wax.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.32.12" id="Jer.32.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">32.12 </span><span class="fq">Baruch son of Neriah: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Baruch son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.32.18" id="Jer.32.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">32.18 </span><span class="fq">for a thousand generations: </span><span class="ft">Or “to thousands of people.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.32.28" id="Jer.32.28!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">32.28 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.33.1-Jer.33.2" id="Jer.33.1-Jer.33.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">33.1,2 </span><span class="fq">the whole world: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “it.”</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.33.4-Jer.33.5" id="Jer.33.4-Jer.33.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">33.4,5 </span><span class="fq">have been torn down … Babylonian attackers: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.33.6" id="Jer.33.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">33.6 </span><span class="fq">let them enjoy unending peace: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.33.14" id="Jer.33.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">33.14 </span><span class="fq">Israel and Judah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.4.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.33.18" id="Jer.33.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">33.18 </span><span class="fq">sacrifices to please me and to give thanks: </span><span class="ft">See the notes at 14.12.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.34.1" id="Jer.34.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">34.1 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.34.2" id="Jer.34.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">34.2 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.34.8-Jer.34.10" id="Jer.34.8-Jer.34.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">34.8-10 </span><span class="fq">Zedekiah: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jer.34.8-Jer.34.10" id="Jer.34.8-Jer.34.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">34.8-10 </span><span class="fq">Hebrew: </span><span class="ft">An earlier term for Israelite and Jewish.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.34.21-Jer.34.22" id="Jer.34.21-Jer.34.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">34.21,22 </span><span class="fq">Nebuchadnezzar: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 21.2.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.35.1" id="Jer.35.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">35.1 </span><span class="fq">Jehoiakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.35.2" id="Jer.35.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">35.2 </span><span class="fq">side rooms: </span><span class="ft">Probably a room with walls on three sides, and open to the courtyard on the fourth side.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.35.3" id="Jer.35.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">35.3 </span><span class="fq">Jaazaniah: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah son of Habazziniah”; this is a different Jeremiah than the author of the book.</span></span>


bookid: Jer
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jer.35.4" id="Jer.35.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">35.4 </span><span class="fq">Maaseiah … temple: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Maaseiah son of Shallum, the keeper of the temple door.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Cor.7.8" id="2Cor.7.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.8 </span><span class="fq">my letter: </span><span class="ft">There is no copy of this letter that Paul wrote to the church at Corinth.</span></span>


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Cor.8.1" id="2Cor.8.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.1 </span><span class="fq">churches in Macedonia: </span><span class="ft">The churches that Paul had started in Philippi and Thessalonica. The church in Berea is probably also meant.</span></span>


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Cor.8.7" id="2Cor.8.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.7 </span><span class="fq">you love us better: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “we love you better.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Cor.10.7" id="2Cor.10.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.7 </span><span class="fq">You judge by appearances: </span><span class="ft">Or “Take a close look at yourselves.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Cor.10.15" id="2Cor.10.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.15 </span><span class="fq">we will be able to reach many more of the people around you: </span><span class="ft">Or “you will praise us even more because of our work among you.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Cor.11.29" id="2Cor.11.29!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.29 </span><span class="fq">When others are tricked into sin, I get angry: </span><span class="ft">Or “When others stumble into sin, I hurt for them.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Cor.12.4" id="2Cor.12.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.4 </span><span class="fq">paradise: </span><span class="ft">In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, this word is used for the Garden of Eden. In New Testament times it was sometimes used for the place where God's people are happy and at rest, as they wait for the final judgment.</span></span>


bookid: 2Cor
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Cor.12.7" id="2Cor.12.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.7 </span><span class="fq">Of course … too proud: </span><span class="ft">Or “Because of the wonderful things I saw, one of Satan's angels was sent to make me suffer terribly, so I would not feel too proud.”</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.1.6" id="Gal.1.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.6 </span><span class="fq">his gift of undeserved grace: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “the gift of Christ's undeserved grace.”</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.1.18" id="Gal.1.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.18 </span><span class="fq">Peter: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “Cephas,” which is an Aramaic name meaning “rock.” Peter is the Greek name with the same meaning.</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.2.9" id="Gal.2.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.9 </span><span class="fq">Peter: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.18.</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.3.7" id="Gal.3.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.7 </span><span class="fq">a child of Abraham: </span><span class="ft">God chose Abraham, and so it was believed that anyone who was a child of Abraham was also a child of God (see the note at 3.29).</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.3.11" id="Gal.3.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.11 </span><span class="fq">The people God accepts because of their faith will live: </span><span class="ft">Or “The people God accepts will live because of their faith.”</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.3.15" id="Gal.3.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.15 </span><span class="fq">Once someone … cancel the agreement: </span><span class="ft">Or “Once a person makes out a will, no one can change or cancel it.”</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.3.16" id="Gal.3.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.16 </span><span class="fq">descendant: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “seed,” which may mean one or many descendants. In this verse Paul says it means Christ.</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.3.19" id="Gal.3.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.19 </span><span class="fq">that descendant: </span><span class="ft">Jesus.</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.3.29" id="Gal.3.29!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.29 </span><span class="fq">you are now part of Abraham's family: </span><span class="ft">Paul tells the Galatians that faith in Jesus Christ is what makes someone a true child of Abraham and of God (see the note at 3.7).</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.4.9" id="Gal.4.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.9 </span><span class="fq">powers: </span><span class="ft">Spirits were thought to control human lives and were believed to be connected with the movements of the stars.</span></span>


bookid: Gal
contenido:
<span verse_id="Gal.4.25" id="Gal.4.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.25 </span><span class="fq">Hagar also stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “Sinai is a mountain in Arabia.” This sentence would then be translated: “Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, and Hagar stands for the present city of Jerusalem.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Gal.4.25" id="Gal.4.25!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.25 </span><span class="fq">She: </span><span class="ft">“Hagar” or “Jerusalem.”</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.1.1" id="Eph.1.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1 </span><span class="fq">live in Ephesus and: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have these words.</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.1.5" id="Eph.1.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.4,5 </span><span class="fq">holy and innocent and loving people. </span><span class="fv">5</span><span class="fk">God was kind: </span><span class="ft">Or “holy and innocent people. God was loving </span><span class="fv">5 </span> and kind.”</span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.1.20" id="Eph.1.20!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.20 </span><span class="fq">right side: </span><span class="ft">The place of power and honor.</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.1.23" id="Eph.1.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.23 </span><span class="fq">and is filled with Christ who completely fills everything: </span><span class="ft">Or “which completely fills Christ and fully completes his work.”</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.2.8" id="Eph.2.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.8 </span><span class="fq">treats us much better than we deserve: </span><span class="ft">The Greek word </span><span class="fk">charis</span><span class="ft">, traditionally rendered “grace,” is translated here and other places in the CEV to express the overwhelming kindness of God.</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.2.16" id="Eph.2.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.16 </span><span class="fq">He also made peace: </span><span class="ft">Or “The cross also made peace.”</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.3.15" id="Eph.3.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.15 </span><span class="fq">receive their life from him: </span><span class="ft">Or “know who they really are because of him.”</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.3.18" id="Eph.3.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.18 </span><span class="fq">what is called wide or long or high or deep: </span><span class="ft">This may refer to the heavenly Jerusalem or to God's love or wisdom or to the meaning of the cross.</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.4.13" id="Eph.4.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.13 </span><span class="fq">and we will be completely like him: </span><span class="ft">Or “and he is completely perfect.”</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.5.2" id="Eph.5.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.2 </span><span class="fq">us: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “you.”</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.5.6" id="Eph.5.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.6 </span><span class="fq">says: </span><span class="ft">Or “does.”</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.5.14" id="Eph.5.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.14 </span><span class="fq">Light shows up everything: </span><span class="ft">Or “Everything that is seen in the light becomes light itself.”</span></span>


bookid: Eph
contenido:
<span verse_id="Eph.6.13" id="Eph.6.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.13 </span><span class="fq">that evil day: </span><span class="ft">Either the present (see 5.16) or “the day of death” or “the day of judgment.”</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.1.14" id="Phil.1.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.14 </span><span class="fq">the message: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “the Lord's message,” and others have “God's message.”</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.1.26" id="Phil.1.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.26 </span><span class="fq">take great pride in Christ Jesus because of me: </span><span class="ft">Or “take great pride in me because of Christ Jesus.”</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.2.5" id="Phil.2.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.5 </span><span class="fq">think the same way that Christ Jesus thought: </span><span class="ft">Or “think the way you should because you belong to Christ Jesus.”</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.2.6" id="Phil.2.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.6 </span><span class="fq">remain: </span><span class="ft">Or “become.”</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.2.7" id="Phil.2.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.7 </span><span class="fq">he gave up everything: </span><span class="ft">Greek, “he emptied himself.”</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.2.16" id="Phil.2.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.16 </span><span class="fq">hold firmly to: </span><span class="ft">Or “offer them.”</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.2.17" id="Phil.2.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.17 </span><span class="fq">my own blood may have to be poured out with the sacrifice: </span><span class="ft">Offerings of water or wine were sometimes poured out when animals were sacrificed on the altar.</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.3.3" id="Phil.3.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.3 </span><span class="fq">by the power of God's Spirit: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “sincerely.”</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.3.5" id="Phil.3.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.5 </span><span class="fq">when I was eight days old: </span><span class="ft">Jewish boys are circumcised eight days after birth.</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.4.3" id="Phil.4.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.3 </span><span class="fq">partner: </span><span class="ft">Or “Syzygus,” a person's name.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Phil.4.3" id="Phil.4.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.3 </span><span class="fq">the book of life: </span><span class="ft">A book in which the names of God's people are written.</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.4.11" id="Phil.4.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.11 </span><span class="fq">be satisfied with: </span><span class="ft">Or “get by on.”</span></span>


bookid: Phil
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phil.4.15" id="Phil.4.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.15 </span><span class="fq">when I started preaching the good news in Macedonia: </span><span class="ft">Paul is talking about his first visit to Philippi (see Acts 16.12-40).</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.1.7" id="Col.1.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.7 </span><span class="fq">you: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “us.”</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.1.12" id="Col.1.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.12 </span><span class="fq">you: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “us.”</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.1.24" id="Col.1.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.24 </span><span class="fq">continue: </span><span class="ft">Or “complete.”</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.2.8" id="Col.2.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.8 </span><span class="fq">powers of this world: </span><span class="ft">Spirits and unseen forces were thought to control human lives and were believed to be connected with the movements of the stars.</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.2.13" id="Col.2.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">you: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.7.</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.2.18" id="Col.2.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.18 </span><span class="fq">worship angels: </span><span class="ft">Or “worship with angels (in visions of heaven).”</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.2.20" id="Col.2.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.20 </span><span class="fq">forces of the universe: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.8.</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.3.1" id="Col.3.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.1 </span><span class="fq">right side: </span><span class="ft">The place of power and honor.</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.3.4" id="Col.3.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.4 </span><span class="fq">your: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “our.”</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.3.6" id="Col.3.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.6 </span><span class="fq">people who disobey him by doing: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have these words.</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.3.11" id="Col.3.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.11 </span><span class="fq">a barbarian or a Scythian: </span><span class="ft">Barbarians were people who could not speak Greek and would be in the lower class of society. Scythians were people who were known for their cruelty.</span></span>


bookid: Col
contenido:
<span verse_id="Col.4.16" id="Col.4.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.16 </span><span class="fq">the letter that I have sent to them: </span><span class="ft">This is the only mention of the letter to the church at Laodicea.</span></span>


bookid: 1Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Thess.1.1" id="1Thess.1.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1 </span><span class="fq">Silas: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “Silvanus,” another form of the name Silas.</span></span>


bookid: 1Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Thess.2.7" id="1Thess.2.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.7 </span><span class="fq">like children or like a mother: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “as gentle as a mother.” </span></span>


bookid: 1Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Thess.4.4" id="1Thess.4.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.4 </span><span class="fq">your wife: </span><span class="ft">Or “your body.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Thess.4.6" id="1Thess.4.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.6 </span><span class="fq">in matters of sex: </span><span class="ft">Or “in business.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Thess.5.2" id="1Thess.5.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.2 </span><span class="fq">the Lord's return: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “the day of the Lord.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Thess.1.1" id="2Thess.1.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1 </span><span class="fq">Silas: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “Silvanus,” which is another form of the name Silas.</span></span>


bookid: 2Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Thess.2.2" id="2Thess.2.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.2 </span><span class="fq">Lord: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “day of the Lord.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Thess.2.3" id="2Thess.2.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.3 </span><span class="fq">wicked: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “sinful.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Thess.2.13" id="2Thess.2.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">God chose you to be the first ones to be saved: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “From the beginning God chose you to be saved.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Thess
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Thess.3.6" id="2Thess.3.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.6 </span><span class="fq">in the name of: </span><span class="ft">Or “as a follower of.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.1.18" id="1Tim.1.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.18 </span><span class="fq">prophets: </span><span class="ft">Probably the Christian prophets referred to in 4.14.</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.2.15" id="1Tim.2.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.15 </span><span class="fq">saved by having children: </span><span class="ft">Or “brought safely through childbirth” or “saved by the birth of a child” (that is, by the birth of Jesus) or “saved by being good mothers.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.3.1" id="1Tim.3.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.1 </span><span class="fq">It is true that: </span><span class="ft">These words may be taken with 2.15. If so, that verse would be translated: “It is true that women will be saved … holy, and modest.” And 3.1 would be translated, “Anyone who desires … something worthwhile.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Tim.3.1" id="1Tim.3.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.1 </span><span class="fq">church official: </span><span class="ft">Or “bishop.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.3.2" id="1Tim.3.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.2 </span><span class="fq">be faithful in marriage: </span><span class="ft">Or “be the husband of only one wife.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.3.8" id="1Tim.3.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.8 </span><span class="fq">Church officers: </span><span class="ft">Or “Deacons.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.3.11" id="1Tim.3.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.11 </span><span class="fq">Women: </span><span class="ft">Either church officers or the wives of church officers.</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.3.12" id="1Tim.3.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.12 </span><span class="fq">be faithful in marriage: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 3.2.</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.3.16" id="1Tim.3.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.16 </span><span class="fq">Christ: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “he,” probably meaning “Christ.” Some manuscripts have “God.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.4.10" id="1Tim.4.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.10 </span><span class="fq">struggle so hard: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “are treated so badly.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.4.14" id="1Tim.4.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.14 </span><span class="fq">group of church leaders: </span><span class="ft">Or “group of elders” or “group of presbyters.” This translates one Greek word, and it is related to the one used in 5.17,19.</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.5.9" id="1Tim.5.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.9 </span><span class="fq">been faithful in marriage: </span><span class="ft">Or “been the wife of only one husband.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.5.10" id="1Tim.5.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.10 </span><span class="fq">welcoming God's people into her home: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “washing the feet of God's people.” In New Testament times most people either went barefoot or wore sandals, and a host would often wash the feet of special guests.</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.5.16" id="1Tim.5.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.16 </span><span class="fq">woman … she: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “man or woman … that person.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.5.17" id="1Tim.5.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.17 </span><span class="fq">church leaders: </span><span class="ft">Or “elders” or “presbyters.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1Tim.5.17" id="1Tim.5.17!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.17 </span><span class="fq">paid: </span><span class="ft">Or “honored” or “respected.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.5.22" id="1Tim.5.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.22 </span><span class="fq">to accept people into the service of the Lord: </span><span class="ft">Or “to forgive people.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Tim.6.7" id="1Tim.6.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.7 </span><span class="fq">we won't: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “we surely won't.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Tim.1.6" id="2Tim.1.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.6 </span><span class="fq">when I placed my hands on you: </span><span class="ft">Church leaders placed their hands on people who were being appointed to preach or teach (see 2 Timothy 4.14).</span></span>


bookid: 2Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Tim.1.7" id="2Tim.1.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.7 </span><span class="fq">God's Spirit: </span><span class="ft">Or “God.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Tim.1.11" id="2Tim.1.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.11 </span><span class="fq">teacher: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add “of the Gentiles.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Tim.1.12" id="2Tim.1.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.12 </span><span class="fq">what he has trusted me with: </span><span class="ft">Or “what I have trusted him with.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Tim.2.14" id="2Tim.2.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.14 </span><span class="fq">God: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “the Lord,” and others have “Christ.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Tim.3.8" id="2Tim.3.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.8 </span><span class="fq">Jannes and Jambres: </span><span class="ft">These names are not found in the Old Testament. But many believe these were the names of the two Egyptian magicians who opposed Moses when he wanted to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt (see Exodus 7.11,22).</span></span>


bookid: 2Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Tim.4.6" id="2Tim.4.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.6 </span><span class="fq">drink offering: </span><span class="ft">Water or wine was sometimes poured out as an offering when an animal sacrifice was made.</span></span>


bookid: 2Tim
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Tim.4.13" id="2Tim.4.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.13 </span><span class="fq">the ones made of leather: </span><span class="ft">A scroll was a kind of rolled up book, and it could be made out of paper (called “papyrus”) or leather (that is, animal skin) or even copper.</span></span>


bookid: Titus
contenido:
<span verse_id="Titus.1.5" id="Titus.1.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.5 </span><span class="fq">leaders: </span><span class="ft">Or “elders” or “presbyters” or “priests.”</span></span>


bookid: Titus
contenido:
<span verse_id="Titus.1.6" id="Titus.1.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.6 </span><span class="fq">be faithful in marriage: </span><span class="ft">Or “be the husband of only one wife.”</span></span>


bookid: Titus
contenido:
<span verse_id="Titus.1.7" id="Titus.1.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.7 </span><span class="fq">Church officials: </span><span class="ft">Or “Bishops.”</span></span>


bookid: Titus
contenido:
<span verse_id="Titus.2.13" id="Titus.2.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">the glorious return of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ: </span><span class="ft">Or “the glorious return of our great God and our Savior Jesus Christ” or “the return of Jesus Christ, who is the glory of our great God and Savior.”</span></span>


bookid: Phlm
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phlm.1.9" id="Phlm.1.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9 </span><span class="fq">someone: </span><span class="ft">Greek “a messenger” or “an old man.”</span></span>


bookid: Phlm
contenido:
<span verse_id="Phlm.1.10" id="Phlm.1.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10 </span><span class="fq">Onesimus: </span><span class="ft">In Greek this name means “useful.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.1.3" id="Heb.1.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.3 </span><span class="fq">right side: </span><span class="ft">The place of honor and power.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.1.6" id="Heb.1.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.6 </span><span class="fq">first-born Son: </span><span class="ft">The first son born into a family had certain privileges that the other children did not have. In 12.23 (see note) “first-born” refers to God's special people.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.1.8" id="Heb.1.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.8 </span><span class="fq">Your: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “His.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.2.7" id="Heb.2.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.7 </span><span class="fq">and honor: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add “and you have placed us in charge of all you created.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.3.2" id="Heb.3.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.2 </span><span class="fq">all: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have “all.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.3.9" id="Heb.3.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.9 </span><span class="ft">When an asterisk (*) occurs before a verse number, it indicates that this verse and the following have been combined.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.5.6" id="Heb.5.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.6 </span><span class="fq">Melchizedek: </span><span class="ft">When Melchizedek is mentioned in the Old Testament, he is described as a priest who lived before Aaron. Nothing is said about his ancestors or his death (see 7.3 and Genesis 14.17-20).</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.6.2" id="Heb.6.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.2 </span><span class="fq">baptisms: </span><span class="ft">Or “ceremonies of washing.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Heb.6.2" id="Heb.6.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.2 </span><span class="fq">laying on of hands: </span><span class="ft">This was a ceremony in which church leaders and others put their hands on people to show that those people were chosen to do some special kind of work.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.6.19" id="Heb.6.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.19 </span><span class="fq">behind the curtain: </span><span class="ft">In the tent that was used for worship, a curtain separated the “holy place” from the “most holy place,” which only the high priest could enter.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.6.20" id="Heb.6.20!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.20 </span><span class="fq">Melchizedek: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 5.6.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.7.3" id="Heb.7.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.3 </span><span class="fq">will be a priest forever: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 5.6.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.7.11" id="Heb.7.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.11 </span><span class="fq">descendants of Levi … from the priestly family of Aaron: </span><span class="ft">Levi was the ancestor of the tribe from which priests and their helpers (called “Levites”) were chosen. Aaron was the first high priest.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.7.25" id="Heb.7.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.25 </span><span class="fq">forever able to save: </span><span class="ft">Or “able to save forever.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.8.1" id="Heb.8.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.1 </span><span class="fq">right side: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.8.2" id="Heb.8.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.2 </span><span class="fq">most holy place: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 6.19.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.9.4" id="Heb.9.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.4 </span><span class="fq">manna: </span><span class="ft">When the people of Israel were wandering through the desert, the Lord provided them with food that could be made into thin wafers. This food was called manna, which in Hebrew means “What is it?”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Heb.9.4" id="Heb.9.4!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.4 </span><span class="fq">Aaron's walking stick that sprouted: </span><span class="ft">According to Numbers 17.1-11, Aaron's walking stick sprouted and produced almonds to show that the Lord was pleased with him and Moses.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.9.5" id="Heb.9.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.5 </span><span class="fq">glorious creatures with wings: </span><span class="ft">Two of these creatures (called “cherubim” in Hebrew and Greek) with outspread wings were on top of the sacred chest and were symbols of God's throne.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Heb.9.5" id="Heb.9.5!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.5 </span><span class="fq">place of mercy: </span><span class="ft">The lid of the sacred chest, which was thought to be God's throne on earth.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.9.11" id="Heb.9.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.11 </span><span class="fq">that are now here: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “that were coming.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.9.14" id="Heb.9.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.14 </span><span class="fq">our: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “your,” and others have “their.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.9.18" id="Heb.9.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.18 </span><span class="fq">Blood was also used: </span><span class="ft">Or “There also had to be a death.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.9.19" id="Heb.9.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.19 </span><span class="fq">blood of bulls and goats: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have “and goats.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.10.12" id="Heb.10.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.12 </span><span class="fq">right side: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.10.38" id="Heb.10.38!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.38 </span><span class="fq">The people God accepts will live because of their faith: </span><span class="ft">Or “The people God accepts because of their faith will live.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.11.17-Heb.11.18" id="Heb.11.17-Heb.11.18!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.17,18 </span><span class="fq">his only son: </span><span class="ft">Although Abraham had a son by a slave woman, his son Isaac was considered his only son, because he was born as a result of God's promise to Abraham.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.11.23" id="Heb.11.23!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.23 </span><span class="fq">the king's orders: </span><span class="ft">The king of Egypt ordered all Israelite baby boys to be left outside of their homes, so they would die or be killed.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.11.26" id="Heb.11.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.26 </span><span class="fq">the Messiah: </span><span class="ft">Or “Christ.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.11.29" id="Heb.11.29!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.29 </span><span class="fq">Red Sea: </span><span class="ft">This name comes from the Bible of the early Christians, a translation made into Greek about 200 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span> It refers to the body of water that the Israelites crossed and was one of the marshes or fresh water lakes near the eastern part of the Nile Delta, where they lived and where the towns of Exodus 13.17—14.9 were located.</span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.11.37" id="Heb.11.37!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.37 </span><span class="fq">sawed in two: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “tested” or “tempted.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.12.2" id="Heb.12.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.2 </span><span class="fq">right side: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.3.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.12.4" id="Heb.12.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.4 </span><span class="fq">hurt: </span><span class="ft">Or “killed.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.12.16" id="Heb.12.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.16 </span><span class="fq">sold his future blessing: </span><span class="ft">As the first-born son, Esau had certain privileges that were known as a “birthright.”</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.12.18" id="Heb.12.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.18 </span><span class="fq">a place like Mount Sinai: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “a place,” but the writer is referring to the time that the Lord spoke to the people of Israel from Mount Sinai (see Exodus 19.16-25).</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.12.23" id="Heb.12.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.23 </span><span class="fq">all of God's dearest children: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “the gathering of the first-born children” (see the note at 1.6).</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.12.24" id="Heb.12.24!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.24 </span><span class="fq">blood of Abel: </span><span class="ft">Cain and Abel were the two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain murdered Abel (see Genesis 4.1-16).</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.13.20" id="Heb.13.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.20 </span><span class="fq">whose blood was used to make God's eternal agreement with his flock: </span><span class="ft">See 9.18-22.</span></span>


bookid: Heb
contenido:
<span verse_id="Heb.13.25" id="Heb.13.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.25 </span><span class="fq">to all of you: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add “Amen.”</span></span>


bookid: Jas
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jas.1.1" id="Jas.1.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1 </span><span class="fq">twelve tribes scattered all over the world: </span><span class="ft">James is saying that the Lord's followers are like the tribes of Israel that were scattered everywhere by their enemies.</span></span>


bookid: Jas
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jas.1.12" id="Jas.1.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.12 </span><span class="fq">a glorious life: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “the crown of life.” In ancient times an athlete who had won a contest was rewarded with a crown of flowers as a sign of victory.</span></span>


bookid: Jas
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jas.1.18" id="Jas.1.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.18 </span><span class="fq">his own special people: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “the first of his creatures.” The Law of Moses taught that the first-born of all animals and the first part of the harvest were special and belonged to the Lord.</span></span>


bookid: Jas
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jas.2.8" id="Jas.2.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.8 </span><span class="fq">most important law: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “royal law,” meaning the one given by the king (that is, God).</span></span>


bookid: Jas
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jas.2.13" id="Jas.2.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">But even in judgment, God is merciful: </span><span class="ft">Or “So be merciful, and you will be shown mercy on the day of judgment.”</span></span>


bookid: Jas
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jas.4.5" id="Jas.4.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.5 </span><span class="fq">God truly cares about the Spirit he has put in us: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Greek text; other translations are possible, such as, “the Spirit that God put in us truly cares.”</span></span>


bookid: Jas
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jas.5.14" id="Jas.5.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.14 </span><span class="fq">church leaders: </span><span class="ft">Or “elders” or “presbyters.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jas.5.14" id="Jas.5.14!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.14 </span><span class="fq">olive oil: </span><span class="ft">The Jewish people used olive oil for healing.</span></span>


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Pet.1.2" id="1Pet.1.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.2 </span><span class="fq">sprinkled with his blood: </span><span class="ft">According to Exodus 24.3-8 the people of Israel were sprinkled with the blood of cows to show they would keep their agreement with God. Peter says that it is the blood of Jesus that seals the agreement between God and his people (see Hebrews 9.18-21).</span></span>


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Pet.1.5" id="1Pet.1.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.5 </span><span class="fq">the last day: </span><span class="ft">When God will judge all people.</span></span>


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Pet.1.18" id="1Pet.1.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.18 </span><span class="fq">rescued: </span><span class="ft">The Greek word often, though not always, means payment of a price to free a slave or prisoner.</span></span>


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Pet.1.22" id="1Pet.1.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.22 </span><span class="fq">You obeyed the truth: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add “by the power of the Spirit.”</span></span>


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Pet.3.22" id="1Pet.3.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.22 </span><span class="fq">right side: </span><span class="ft">The place of honor and power.</span></span>


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Pet.4.6" id="1Pet.4.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.6 </span><span class="fq">the dead: </span><span class="ft">Either people who died after becoming followers of Christ or the people of Noah's day (see 3.19).</span></span>


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Pet.5.13" id="1Pet.5.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.13 </span><span class="fq">Babylon: </span><span class="ft">This may be a secret name for the city of Rome.</span></span>


bookid: 1Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="1Pet.5.14" id="1Pet.5.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.14 </span><span class="fq">Christ: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add “Amen.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Pet.1.1" id="2Pet.1.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1 </span><span class="fq">To everyone who … just and fair: </span><span class="ft">Or “To everyone whose faith in the justice and fairness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ is as precious as our own faith.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Pet.2.6" id="2Pet.2.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.6 </span><span class="fq">Sodom and Gomorrah: </span><span class="ft">During the time of Abraham the Lord destroyed these cities because the people there were so evil (see Genesis 19.24).</span></span>


bookid: 2Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Pet.2.11" id="2Pet.2.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.11 </span><span class="fq">evil beings: </span><span class="ft">Or “evil teachers.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Pet.2.13" id="2Pet.2.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">and the meals they eat with you are spoiled by the shameful and selfish way they carry on: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “and the meals they eat with you are spoiled by the shameful way they carry on during your feasts of Christian love.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Pet.3.10" id="2Pet.3.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.10 </span><span class="fq">the whole universe: </span><span class="ft">Probably the sun, moon, and stars, or the elements that everything in the universe is made of.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2Pet.3.10" id="2Pet.3.10!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.10 </span><span class="fq">will be seen for what they are: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “will go up in flames.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Pet.3.12" id="2Pet.3.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.12 </span><span class="fq">and you should try to make it come soon: </span><span class="ft">Or “and you should eagerly desire for that day to come.”</span></span>


bookid: 2Pet
contenido:
<span verse_id="2Pet.3.18" id="2Pet.3.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.18 </span><span class="fq">Amen: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have “Amen.”</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.1.4" id="1John.1.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.4 </span><span class="fq">us: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “you.”</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.1.10" id="1John.1.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.10 </span><span class="fq">and his message isn't in our hearts: </span><span class="ft">Or “because we have not accepted his message.”</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.2.10" id="1John.2.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.10 </span><span class="fq">and we don't cause problems for them: </span><span class="ft">Or “and we can see anything that might make us fall.”</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.2.20" id="1John.2.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.20 </span><span class="fq">Christ, the Holy One: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “the Holy One” which may refer either to Christ or to God the Father.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1John.2.20" id="1John.2.20!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.20 </span><span class="fq">blessed: </span><span class="ft">This translates a word which means “to pour olive oil on (someone's head).” In Old Testament times it was the custom to pour olive oil on a person's head when that person was chosen to be a priest or a king. Here the meaning is not clear. It may refer to the ceremony of pouring olive oil on the followers of the Lord right before they were baptized or it may refer to the gift of the Holy Spirit which they were given at baptism (see verse 27).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1John.2.20" id="1John.2.20!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.20 </span><span class="fq">now all of you understand: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “you understand all things.”</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.2.25" id="1John.2.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.25 </span><span class="fq">The Son: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “he” and may refer to God the Father.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="1John.2.25" id="1John.2.25!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.25 </span><span class="fq">us: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “you.”</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.2.27" id="1John.2.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.27 </span><span class="fq">Christ has blessed you with the Holy Spirit: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “You received a pouring on of olive oil from him” (see verse 20). The “pouring on of olive oil” is here taken to refer to the gift of the Holy Spirit, and “he” may refer either to Christ or to the Father.</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.3.1" id="1John.3.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.1 </span><span class="fq">Christ: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “he” and may refer to God.</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.3.3" id="1John.3.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.3 </span><span class="fq">Christ: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “that one” and may refer to God.</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.3.9" id="1John.3.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.9 </span><span class="fq">His life-giving power: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “his seed.”</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.4.4" id="1John.4.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.4 </span><span class="fq">God's Spirit: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “he” and may refer to the Spirit or to God or to Jesus.</span></span>


bookid: 1John
contenido:
<span verse_id="1John.5.6" id="1John.5.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.6 </span><span class="fq">Water and blood came out from the side of Jesus Christ. It wasn't just water, but water and blood: </span><span class="ft">See John 19.34. It is also possible to translate, “Jesus Christ came by the water of baptism and by the blood of his death! He was not only baptized, but he bled and died.” The purpose of the verse is to tell that Jesus was truly human and that he really died.</span></span>


bookid: 2John
contenido:
<span verse_id="2John.1.1" id="2John.1.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1 </span><span class="fq">church leader: </span><span class="ft">Or “elder” or “presbyter.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="2John.1.1" id="2John.1.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1 </span><span class="fq">very special woman and her children: </span><span class="ft">A group of the Lord's followers who met together for worship. “The children of your … sister” (see verse 13) is another group of followers. “Very special” (here and verse 13) probably means “chosen (by the Lord).”</span></span>


bookid: 2John
contenido:
<span verse_id="2John.1.8" id="2John.1.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8 </span><span class="fq">we: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “you.”</span></span>


bookid: 2John
contenido:
<span verse_id="2John.1.12" id="2John.1.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12 </span><span class="fq">us: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “you.”</span></span>


bookid: 2John
contenido:
<span verse_id="2John.1.13" id="2John.1.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13 </span><span class="fq">sister: </span><span class="ft">See the note at verse 1.</span></span>


bookid: 3John
contenido:
<span verse_id="3John.1.1" id="3John.1.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1 </span><span class="fq">church leader: </span><span class="ft">Or “elder” or “presbyter.”</span></span>


bookid: 3John
contenido:
<span verse_id="3John.1.4" id="3John.1.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4 </span><span class="fq">children: </span><span class="ft">Probably persons that the leader had led to be followers of the Lord.</span></span>


bookid: Jude
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jude.1.6" id="Jude.1.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6 </span><span class="fq">angels: </span><span class="ft">This may refer to the angels who liked the women on earth so much that they came down and married them (see Genesis 6.2).</span></span>


bookid: Jude
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jude.1.7" id="Jude.1.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7 </span><span class="fq">Sodom and Gomorrah: </span><span class="ft">During the time of Abraham the Lord destroyed these cities because the people there were so evil.</span></span>


bookid: Jude
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jude.1.9" id="Jude.1.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9 </span><span class="fq">Michael … the body of Moses: </span><span class="ft">This refers to what was said in an ancient Jewish book about Moses.</span></span>


bookid: Jude
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jude.1.11" id="Jude.1.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11 </span><span class="fq">Cain's example: </span><span class="ft">Cain murdered his brother Abel.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jude.1.11" id="Jude.1.11!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">11 </span><span class="fq">Balaam: </span><span class="ft">According to the biblical account, Balaam refused to curse the people of Israel for profit (see Numbers 22.18; 24.13), though he led them to be unfaithful to the Lord (see Numbers 25.1-3; 31.16). But by New Testament times, some Jewish teachers taught that Balaam was greedy and did accept money to curse them.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Jude.1.11" id="Jude.1.11!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">11 </span><span class="fq">just as Korah did: </span><span class="ft">Together with Dathan and Abiram, Korah led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron (see Numbers 16.1-35; 26.9,10).</span></span>


bookid: Jude
contenido:
<span verse_id="Jude.1.22" id="Jude.1.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22 </span><span class="fq">Be helpful to: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have “Correct.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.1.3" id="Rev.1.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.3 </span><span class="fq">who reads this prophecy to others: </span><span class="ft">A public reading, in a worship service.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.1.4" id="Rev.1.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.4 </span><span class="fq">Asia: </span><span class="ft">The section 1.4-3.22 is in the form of a letter. Asia was in the eastern part of the Roman Empire and is present day Turkey.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.1.8" id="Rev.1.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.8 </span><span class="fq">Alpha and Omega: </span><span class="ft">The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, which sometimes mean “first” and “last.”</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.1.9" id="Rev.1.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.9 </span><span class="fq">Patmos Island: </span><span class="ft">A small island where prisoners were sometimes kept by the Romans.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.1.11" id="Rev.1.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.11 </span><span class="fq">Ephesus … Laodicea: </span><span class="ft">Ephesus was in the center with the six other cities forming a half-circle around it.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.1.13" id="Rev.1.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.13 </span><span class="fq">Son of Man: </span><span class="ft">That is, Jesus.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.1.18" id="Rev.1.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.18 </span><span class="fq">keys to death and the world of the dead: </span><span class="ft">That is, power over death and the world of the dead.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.1.20" id="Rev.1.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.20 </span><span class="fq">angels: </span><span class="ft">Perhaps guardian angels that represent the churches, or they may be church leaders or messengers sent to the churches.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.6" id="Rev.2.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.6 </span><span class="fq">Nicolaitans: </span><span class="ft">Nothing else is known about these people, though it is possible that they claimed to be followers of Nicolaus from Antioch (see Acts 6.5).</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.10" id="Rev.2.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.10 </span><span class="fq">a glorious life: </span><span class="ft">The Greek text has “a crown of life.” In ancient times an athlete who had won a contest was rewarded with a crown of flowers as a sign of victory.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.11" id="Rev.2.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.11 </span><span class="fq">second death: </span><span class="ft">The first death is physical death, and the “second death” is eternal death.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.13" id="Rev.2.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">where Satan has his throne: </span><span class="ft">The meaning is uncertain, but it may refer to the city as a center of pagan worship or of Emperor worship.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Rev.2.13" id="Rev.2.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.13 </span><span class="fq">Antipas: </span><span class="ft">Nothing else is known about this man, who is mentioned only here in the New Testament.</span></span>


bookid: Rev
contenido:
<span verse_id="Rev.2.14" id="Rev.2.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.14 </span><span class="fq">Balaam: </span><span class="ft">According to Numbers 22–24, Balaam refused to disobey the Lord. But in other books of the Old Testament, he is spoken of as evil (see Deuteronomy 23.4,5; Joshua 13.22; 24.9,10; Nehemiah 13.2).</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.11.21" id="Josh.11.21!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.21 </span><span class="fq">Anakim: </span><span class="ft">Perhaps a group of very large people that lived in Palestine before the Israelites (see Numbers 13.33 and Deuteronomy 2.10,11, 20,21).</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.11.22" id="Josh.11.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.22 </span><span class="fq">Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod: </span><span class="ft">Towns in Philistia.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.12.2" id="Josh.12.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.2 </span><span class="fq">King Sihon of Heshbon: </span><span class="ft">See Numbers 21.21-31.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.12.3" id="Josh.12.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.3 </span><span class="fq">Lake Galilee: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 11.2.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.12.3" id="Josh.12.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.3 </span><span class="fq">the town called Slopes of Mount Pisgah: </span><span class="ft">Or “the slopes of Mount Pisgah.”</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.12.4" id="Josh.12.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.4 </span><span class="fq">King Og of Bashan: </span><span class="ft">See Numbers 21.33-35.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.12.4" id="Josh.12.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.4 </span><span class="fq">Rephaim: </span><span class="ft">Perhaps a group of very large people that lived in Palestine before the Israelites (see Deuteronomy 2.10,11, 20,21).</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.12.9-Josh.12.24" id="Josh.12.9-Josh.12.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.9-24 </span><span class="fq">Aphek, Lasharon: </span><span class="ft">Or “Aphek in the Sharon Plain.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.12.9-Josh.12.24" id="Josh.12.9-Josh.12.24!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.9-24 </span><span class="fq">Galilee: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Gilgal.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.12.9-Josh.12.24" id="Josh.12.9-Josh.12.24!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.9-24 </span><span class="fq">Jericho … Tirzah: </span><span class="ft">There are some differences in this list between the Hebrew and several ancient translations.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7" id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2-7 </span><span class="fq">Geshurites: </span><span class="ft">Not the same Geshur as in 12.5 and 13.11. One ancient translation has “Gezerites.” Gezer was a town north of Ekron that the Israelites did not capture (see Judges 1.29).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7" id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2-7 </span><span class="fq">Aphek: </span><span class="ft">Not the same Aphek as in 12.9-24.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7" id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2-7 </span><span class="fq">Amorite border: </span><span class="ft">What had been the southern border of the old Amorite kingdom of Amurru.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7" id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7!f.5" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2-7 </span><span class="fq">Hamath Pass: </span><span class="ft">Or “Lebo-Hamath.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7" id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7!f.6" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2-7 </span><span class="fq">Misrephoth-Maim: </span><span class="ft">Or “Misrephoth” or “the Misrephoth River.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7" id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7!f.7" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2-7 </span><span class="fq">Gebalites: </span><span class="ft">Gebal was another name for Byblos.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7" id="Josh.13.2-Josh.13.7!f.8" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.2-7 </span><span class="fq">from … Sea: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; the Hebrew text does not have these words.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.13.11-Josh.13.12" id="Josh.13.11-Josh.13.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.11,12 </span><span class="fq">Rephaim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 12.4.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.13.11-Josh.13.12" id="Josh.13.11-Josh.13.12!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.11,12 </span><span class="fq">Sihon … people: </span><span class="ft">Or “the Rephaim.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.13.25" id="Josh.13.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.25 </span><span class="fq">Aroer: </span><span class="ft">Not the same town as the Aroer in verse 16.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.13.25" id="Josh.13.25!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.25 </span><span class="fq">Rabbah: </span><span class="ft">The capital city of Ammon.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.13.26" id="Josh.13.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.26 </span><span class="fq">Lidebor: </span><span class="ft">This may be another name for Lo-Debar, a town a few kilometers east of the Jordan River and about 16 kilometers south of Lake Galilee.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.13.27" id="Josh.13.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.27 </span><span class="fq">Lake Galilee: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 11.2.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.14.1-Josh.14.5" id="Josh.14.1-Josh.14.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.1-5 </span><span class="fq">he would show those tribes: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “those tribes must cast lots to find out.” Pieces of wood or stone (called “lots”) were used to find out what God wanted his people to do.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.14.12" id="Josh.14.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.12 </span><span class="fq">Anakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 11.21.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.14.15" id="Josh.14.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.15 </span><span class="fq">Arba's Town: </span><span class="ft">Or “Kiriath-Arba.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.14.15" id="Josh.14.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.15 </span><span class="fq">Arba's Town, because … greatest: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “Arba's Town. It was one of the main towns.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.3" id="Josh.15.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.3 </span><span class="fq">Scorpion Pass: </span><span class="ft">Or “Akrabbim Pass.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.5" id="Josh.15.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.5 </span><span class="fq">at … Dead Sea: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.6" id="Josh.15.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.6 </span><span class="fq">Monument of Bohan: </span><span class="ft">Or “Bohan Rock,” possibly a natural rock formation.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.7" id="Josh.15.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.7 </span><span class="fq">Trouble Valley: </span><span class="ft">Or “Achor Valley.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.7" id="Josh.15.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.7 </span><span class="fq">Debir: </span><span class="ft">Not the same town as in 10.38,39.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.7" id="Josh.15.7!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.7 </span><span class="fq">Gilgal: </span><span class="ft">Not the same “Gilgal” as in 4.19.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.9" id="Josh.15.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.9 </span><span class="fq">ruins: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “towns.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.10" id="Josh.15.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.10 </span><span class="fq">Beth-Shemesh: </span><span class="ft">Probably the same town as the Ir-Shemesh of 19.41-46. Two other towns were also named Beth-Shemesh (see 19.17-23 and 19.35-39).</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.13" id="Josh.15.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.13 </span><span class="fq">Arba's Town: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 14.15.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.13" id="Josh.15.13!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.13 </span><span class="fq">Anakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 11.21.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.14" id="Josh.15.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.14 </span><span class="fq">clans of: </span><span class="ft">Or “warriors.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.17" id="Josh.15.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.17 </span><span class="fq">Caleb's nephew Othniel: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Othniel the son of Caleb's brother Kenaz.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.18" id="Josh.15.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.18 </span><span class="fq">Achsah … Othniel … he: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one manuscript of one ancient translation and two ancient translations of the parallel in Judges 1.14 “Othniel … Achsah … she.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.18" id="Josh.15.18!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.18 </span><span class="fq">getting down from: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.19" id="Josh.15.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.19 </span><span class="fq">spring-fed ponds: </span><span class="ft">Or “wells.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.19" id="Josh.15.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.19 </span><span class="fq">small ponds … Pond … Pond: </span><span class="ft">Or “wells … Well … Well.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.21-Josh.15.32" id="Josh.15.21-Josh.15.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.21-32 </span><span class="fq">Aradah: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.21-Josh.15.32" id="Josh.15.21-Josh.15.32!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.21-32 </span><span class="fq">Hazor of Ithnan: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Hazor and Ithnan.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.21-Josh.15.32" id="Josh.15.21-Josh.15.32!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.21-32 </span><span class="fq">its … villages: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Biziothiah.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.21-Josh.15.32" id="Josh.15.21-Josh.15.32!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.21-32 </span><span class="fq">Enrimmon: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Ain and Rimmon.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.37-Josh.15.41" id="Josh.15.37-Josh.15.41!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.37-41 </span><span class="fq">Lahmas: </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; many other Hebrew manuscripts and one manuscript of one ancient translation “Lahmam.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.48-Josh.15.51" id="Josh.15.48-Josh.15.51!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.48-51 </span><span class="fq">Eshtemoh: </span><span class="ft">Another spelling for the name Eshtemoa (see 21.9-19).</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.52-Josh.15.54" id="Josh.15.52-Josh.15.54!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.52-54 </span><span class="fq">Dumah: </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts and one ancient translation “Rumah.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.55-Josh.15.57" id="Josh.15.55-Josh.15.57!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.55-57 </span><span class="fq">Jezreel: </span><span class="ft">Not the same Jezreel as in 19.17-23.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.55-Josh.15.57" id="Josh.15.55-Josh.15.57!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.55-57 </span><span class="fq">Jokdeam: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “Jorkeam.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.15.55-Josh.15.57" id="Josh.15.55-Josh.15.57!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.55-57 </span><span class="fq">Gibeah: </span><span class="ft">Not the same Gibeah as in 18.25-28.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.58-Josh.15.59" id="Josh.15.58-Josh.15.59!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.58,59 </span><span class="fq">The tenth region … Manahath: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; the Hebrew text does not have these words.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.15.63" id="Josh.15.63!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.63 </span><span class="fq">Jebusites … Judah: </span><span class="ft">Israel captured Jerusalem in King David's time, but even then the Jebusites were not forced to leave.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.16.1-Josh.16.4" id="Josh.16.1-Josh.16.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.1-4 </span><span class="fq">it … then: </span><span class="ft">Or “which is also called Luz, it went.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.16.1-Josh.16.4" id="Josh.16.1-Josh.16.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.1-4 </span><span class="fq">Ataroth: </span><span class="ft">This is the same Ataroth as Ataroth-Addar in verse 5, but a different Ataroth from the one in verses 6-8.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.17.1-Josh.17.6" id="Josh.17.1-Josh.17.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.1-6 </span><span class="fq">The LORD told Moses … relatives: </span><span class="ft">See Numbers 27.1-11; 36.1-12.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.17.1-Josh.17.6" id="Josh.17.1-Josh.17.6!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.1-6 </span><span class="fq">the clans that were descendants of Zelophehad's five daughters … Hepher's brothers: </span><span class="ft">Or “Zelophehad's five daughters went to the priest Eleazar, Joshua, and the leaders of Israel. The five sisters said, ‘The LORD told Moses to give us land just as he gave land to our relatives.’ Joshua followed the LORD's instructions and gave land to these five sisters, as he had given land to Hepher's brothers.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.17.7" id="Josh.17.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.7 </span><span class="fq">to include … Tappuah Spring: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “to Jassiben-Tappuah” or “and turns toward Tappuah Spring.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.17.11" id="Josh.17.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.11 </span><span class="fq">Dor … Naphath: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.17.14" id="Josh.17.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.14 </span><span class="fq">Joseph tribes: </span><span class="ft">Ephraim and the half of Manasseh that lived west of the Jordan River.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.17.15" id="Josh.17.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.15 </span><span class="fq">Rephaim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 12.4.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.1" id="Josh.18.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.1 </span><span class="fq">sacred tent: </span><span class="ft">Or “meeting tent.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.3-Josh.18.7" id="Josh.18.3-Josh.18.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.3-7 </span><span class="fq">Joseph tribes: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 17.14.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.18.3-Josh.18.7" id="Josh.18.3-Josh.18.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.3-7 </span><span class="fq">find out: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “cast lots to find out” (see the note at 14.1-5).</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.11" id="Josh.18.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.11 </span><span class="fq">Joseph tribes: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 17.14.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.13-Josh.18.14" id="Josh.18.13-Josh.18.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.13,14 </span><span class="fq">Ataroth-Orech: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Ataroth-Addar.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.15" id="Josh.18.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.15 </span><span class="fq">the ruins: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.16" id="Josh.18.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.16 </span><span class="fq">Jerusalem: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “the Jebusite town.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.17" id="Josh.18.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.17 </span><span class="fq">Geliloth: </span><span class="ft">Probably another name for Gilgal.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.18.17" id="Josh.18.17!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.17 </span><span class="fq">Monument of Bohan: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 15.6.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.18" id="Josh.18.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.18 </span><span class="fq">hillside north of Beth-Arabah: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation (see also the border description in 15.6); Hebrew “the northern hillside overlooking the Jordan River valley.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.19" id="Josh.18.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.19 </span><span class="fq">northern … Dead Sea: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.18.25-Josh.18.28" id="Josh.18.25-Josh.18.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.25-28 </span><span class="fq">Kiriath-Jearim: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Kiriath.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.2-Josh.19.6" id="Josh.19.2-Josh.19.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.2-6 </span><span class="fq">Shema: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation and some manuscripts of another ancient translation (see also the list at 15.21-32); Hebrew and some manuscripts of one ancient translation “Sheba.” The list in 1 Chronicles 4.28 does not have either “Shema” or “Sheba.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.7" id="Josh.19.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.7 </span><span class="fq">Enrimmon: </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and one ancient translation; most Hebrew manuscripts “Ain, Rimmon.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.7" id="Josh.19.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.7 </span><span class="fq">Tachan: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of one ancient translation; the Hebrew text does not have this word.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.13" id="Josh.19.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.13 </span><span class="fq">Rimmonah: </span><span class="ft">Or “Rimmon.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.13" id="Josh.19.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.13 </span><span class="fq">Rimmonah … curved: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.15" id="Josh.19.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.15 </span><span class="fq">Jiralah: </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and two ancient translations; most Hebrew manuscripts “Idalah.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.15" id="Josh.19.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.15 </span><span class="fq">Bethlehem: </span><span class="ft">This town is different from the Bethlehem in 15.58,59.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.17-Josh.19.23" id="Josh.19.17-Josh.19.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.17-23 </span><span class="fq">Debirath: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Rabbith.” Debirath is probably the same place as Daberath in verse 12.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.17-Josh.19.23" id="Josh.19.17-Josh.19.23!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.17-23 </span><span class="fq">Mount Tabor … Tabor: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew the name “Tabor” is used only once. It was probably intended as the name of a town located at the foot of Mount Tabor and which formed one point on the northern border of Issachar.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.17-Josh.19.23" id="Josh.19.17-Josh.19.23!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.17-23 </span><span class="fq">Beth-Shemesh: </span><span class="ft">Not the same Beth-Shemesh as in 15.10 or 19.35-39.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.28" id="Josh.19.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.28 </span><span class="fq">Abdon: </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts and one ancient translation; most Hebrew manuscripts “Ebron.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.29-Josh.19.31" id="Josh.19.29-Josh.19.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.29-31 </span><span class="fq">Ramah: </span><span class="ft">Not the same “Ramah” as in 18.25-28 or 19.35-39.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.29-Josh.19.31" id="Josh.19.29-Josh.19.31!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.29-31 </span><span class="fq">fortress-city of Tyre: </span><span class="ft">Tyre was a walled city built on an island about a kilometer from shore.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.29-Josh.19.31" id="Josh.19.29-Josh.19.31!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.29-31 </span><span class="fq">Mahalab: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.29-Josh.19.31" id="Josh.19.29-Josh.19.31!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.29-31 </span><span class="fq">Acco: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Ummah.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.32-Josh.19.34" id="Josh.19.32-Josh.19.34!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.32-34 </span><span class="fq">Jabneel: </span><span class="ft">This town is not the same Jabneel as in 15.11.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.32-Josh.19.34" id="Josh.19.32-Josh.19.34!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.32-34 </span><span class="fq">the town … Zaanannim: </span><span class="ft">Or “the oak tree in the town of Zaanannim.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.32-Josh.19.34" id="Josh.19.32-Josh.19.34!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.32-34 </span><span class="fq">at … Jehudah: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.35-Josh.19.39" id="Josh.19.35-Josh.19.39!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.35-39 </span><span class="fq">Ramah: </span><span class="ft">Not the same “Ramah” as in 18.25-28 or 19.29-31.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.35-Josh.19.39" id="Josh.19.35-Josh.19.39!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.35-39 </span><span class="fq">Edrei: </span><span class="ft">Not the same Edrei as the town in Bashan east of the Jordan River where King Og had lived (see 12.4; 13.11,12, 30,31).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.35-Josh.19.39" id="Josh.19.35-Josh.19.39!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.35-39 </span><span class="fq">Beth-Shemesh: </span><span class="ft">Not the same Beth-Shemesh as in 15.10 or 19.17-23.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.40-Josh.19.46" id="Josh.19.40-Josh.19.46!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.40-46 </span><span class="fq">Ir-Shemesh: </span><span class="ft">Possibly the same town as the Beth-Shemesh of 15.10.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.40-Josh.19.46" id="Josh.19.40-Josh.19.46!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.40-46 </span><span class="fq">Azor: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of one ancient translation; the Hebrew text does not have this word.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.19.40-Josh.19.46" id="Josh.19.40-Josh.19.46!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.40-46 </span><span class="fq">Gath-Rimmon, Mejarkon, and Rakkon. Dan's tribal land: </span><span class="ft">Or “Gath-Rimmon, and Rakkon. Dan's tribal land also included the Yarkon River and.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Josh.19.47-Josh.19.48" id="Josh.19.47-Josh.19.48!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.47,48 </span><span class="fq">enemies: </span><span class="ft">Probably the Philistines.</span></span>


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contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.19.49-Josh.19.51" id="Josh.19.49-Josh.19.51!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.49-51 </span><span class="fq">sacred tent: </span><span class="ft">Or “meeting tent.”</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.20.3-Josh.20.4" id="Josh.20.3-Josh.20.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.3,4 </span><span class="fq">revenge: </span><span class="ft">At this time in Israel's history, the clan could appoint a close male relative to find and kill a person who had killed a member of their clan.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.20.6" id="Josh.20.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.6 </span><span class="fq">not guilty: </span><span class="ft">If the person was found to be guilty of murder, the citizens of the Safe Town were to let the victim's relatives kill the murderer (see Deuteronomy 19.11-13).</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.21.1-Josh.21.2" id="Josh.21.1-Josh.21.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.1,2 </span><span class="fq">The LORD told Moses … animals: </span><span class="ft">See Numbers 35.1-8.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.21.4" id="Josh.21.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.4 </span><span class="fq">asked the LORD to show them: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “cast lots to find out.” See the note at 14.1-5.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.21.4" id="Josh.21.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.4 </span><span class="fq">The descendants … priest: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew text; three ancient translations “The priests, the descendants of Aaron.” The male descendants of Aaron would also be priests.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.21.7" id="Josh.21.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.4-7 </span><span class="fq">Kohath … Gershon … Merari: </span><span class="ft">Sons of Levi, the ancestor of the tribe of Levi.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.21.9-Josh.21.19" id="Josh.21.9-Josh.21.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.9-19 </span><span class="fq">Ashan: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation and the parallel in 1 Chronicles 6.59; Hebrew “Ain.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.21.9-Josh.21.19" id="Josh.21.9-Josh.21.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.9-19 </span><span class="fq">Arba's Town: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 14.15.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.21.9-Josh.21.19" id="Josh.21.9-Josh.21.19!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.9-19 </span><span class="fq">Anakim: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 11.21.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.21.9-Josh.21.19" id="Josh.21.9-Josh.21.19!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.9-19 </span><span class="fq">Caleb: </span><span class="ft">See 14.6-14.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.21.20-Josh.21.26" id="Josh.21.20-Josh.21.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.20-26 </span><span class="fq">Jibleam: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation and the parallel in 1 Chronicles 6.70; Hebrew “Gath-Rimmon.”</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.21.34-Josh.21.40" id="Josh.21.34-Josh.21.40!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.34-40 </span><span class="fq">Rimmonah: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.21.34-Josh.21.40" id="Josh.21.34-Josh.21.40!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.34-40 </span><span class="fq">Bezer … Jericho: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.21.34-Josh.21.40" id="Josh.21.34-Josh.21.40!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.34-40 </span><span class="fq">Bezer and Ramoth in Gilead were Safe Towns: </span><span class="ft">One ancient translation; Hebrew “Ramoth in Gilead was a Safe Town.”</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.22.10-Josh.22.11" id="Josh.22.10-Josh.22.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.10,11 </span><span class="fq">western … valley: </span><span class="ft">Or “the town of Geliloth, which is in the land of Canaan near the Jordan River.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.22.10-Josh.22.11" id="Josh.22.10-Josh.22.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.10,11 </span><span class="fq">built a huge altar … tribes had done: </span><span class="ft">According to Deuteronomy 12.5-14, the LORD wanted the Israelites to have only one altar for offering sacrifices. To build another altar would be to disobey the LORD.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.22.17" id="Josh.22.17!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.17 </span><span class="fq">our people's sin at Peor: </span><span class="ft">See Numbers 25.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.22.17" id="Josh.22.17!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.17 </span><span class="fq">we still … sin: </span><span class="ft">Or “There are still people in Israel who want to worship other gods.”</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.22.19" id="Josh.22.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.19 </span><span class="fq">or against … altar: </span><span class="ft">Or “by building another altar besides the LORD's own altar. That would even make us into rebels along with you.”</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.22.20" id="Josh.22.20!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.20 </span><span class="fq">Achan was unfaithful: </span><span class="ft">See 7.1,26.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.22.26" id="Josh.22.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.26 </span><span class="fq">sacrifices to please the LORD: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.30-32.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.22.34" id="Josh.22.34!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.34 </span><span class="fq">named … God: </span><span class="ft">Or “gave a name to the altar. They explained, ‘This altar is here to remind us all that the LORD is our God’ ”; most Hebrew manuscripts. A few Hebrew manuscripts and one ancient translation “named the altar ‘Reminder.’ They explained, ‘This altar is here to remind us all that the LORD is our God.’ ”</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.23.6" id="Josh.23.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.6 </span><span class="fq">Law: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.30-32.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.24.1" id="Josh.24.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.1 </span><span class="fq">near … tent: </span><span class="ft">Or “in front of the sacred chest”; Hebrew “in the presence of God.”</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.24.5-Josh.24.6" id="Josh.24.5-Josh.24.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.5,6 </span><span class="fq">Red Sea: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.10.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.24.9" id="Josh.24.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.9 </span><span class="fq">King Balak … Balaam: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “King Balak the son of Zippor … Balaam the son of Beor.”</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.24.26" id="Josh.24.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.26 </span><span class="fq">Law: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 8.30-32.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.24.32" id="Josh.24.32!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.32 </span><span class="fq">pieces of silver: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew word.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Josh.24.32" id="Josh.24.32!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.32 </span><span class="fq">town … both: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Josh
contenido:
<span verse_id="Josh.24.33" id="Josh.24.33!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">24.33 </span><span class="fq">Eleazar the priest: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Eleazar the son of Aaron.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.4-Judg.1.5" id="Judg.1.4-Judg.1.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.4,5 </span><span class="fq">king of Bezek: </span><span class="ft">Or “Adoni-Bezek.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.8" id="Judg.1.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.8 </span><span class="fq">Jerusalem: </span><span class="ft">This probably refers to towns and villages belonging to Jerusalem but lying in Judah's territory south of the city wall. Jerusalem itself was just inside Benjamin's territory, but was not captured by Israel at this time (see verse 21; Joshua 15.5-9; 18.15-18).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.10" id="Judg.1.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.10 </span><span class="fq">clans called: </span><span class="ft">Or “warriors.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.12" id="Judg.1.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.12 </span><span class="fq">Caleb: </span><span class="ft">One of the leaders of Judah; see Joshua 14.6-14 and Numbers 13.6,30; 14.6,10, 20-24. For verses 12-15, see Joshua 15.13-19.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.13" id="Judg.1.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.13 </span><span class="fq">Othniel was the son of … Kenaz: </span><span class="ft">Or “Othniel and Caleb both belonged to the Kenaz clan, but Othniel was younger than Caleb.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.14" id="Judg.1.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.14 </span><span class="fq">Achsah … Othniel … he: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; two ancient translations “Othniel … Achsah … she.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.1.14" id="Judg.1.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.14 </span><span class="fq">getting down from: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.15" id="Judg.1.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.15 </span><span class="fq">spring-fed ponds … small ponds … Higher Pond and Lower Pond: </span><span class="ft">Or “wells … wells … Higher Well and Lower Well.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.16" id="Judg.1.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.16 </span><span class="fq">Jericho: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Town of Palm Trees,” another name for Jericho.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.1.16" id="Judg.1.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.16 </span><span class="fq">not far … Amalekites: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.17" id="Judg.1.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.17 </span><span class="fq">completely destroyed: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word means that the town was given completely to the LORD, and since it could not be used for normal purposes anymore, it had to be destroyed.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.1.17" id="Judg.1.17!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.17 </span><span class="fq">Hormah: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew “Hormah” sounds like “completely destroyed.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.20" id="Judg.1.20!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.20 </span><span class="fq">Anakim: </span><span class="ft">Perhaps a group of very tall people that lived in Palestine before the Israelites (see Numbers 13.33 and Deuteronomy 2.10,11, 20,21).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.1.20" id="Judg.1.20!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.20 </span><span class="fq">clans: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.10.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.22-Judg.1.23" id="Judg.1.22-Judg.1.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.22,23 </span><span class="fq">The Ephraim and Manasseh tribes: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “The Joseph family,” which was divided into these two tribes named after Joseph's sons.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.24" id="Judg.1.24!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.24 </span><span class="fq">If you … town: </span><span class="ft">Sometimes there were small doors in the town wall that could be opened from the inside even when the main town gates were shut and locked.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.26" id="Judg.1.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.26 </span><span class="fq">land of the Hittites: </span><span class="ft">The Hittites had an empire centered in what is now Turkey. At one time their empire reached south into Syria, north of Israel.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.34" id="Judg.1.34!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.34 </span><span class="fq">Amorites: </span><span class="ft">Used in the general sense of nations that lived in Canaan before the Israelites.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.1.36" id="Judg.1.36!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.36 </span><span class="fq">Scorpion Pass: </span><span class="ft">Or “Akrabbim Pass.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.1.36" id="Judg.1.36!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.36 </span><span class="fq">country: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 36.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.2.1" id="Judg.2.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.1 </span><span class="fq">Bochim: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew “Bochim” means “crying” (see verse 5).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.2.3" id="Judg.2.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.3 </span><span class="fq">trap: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.2.5" id="Judg.2.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.5 </span><span class="fq">Crying: </span><span class="ft">Or “Bochim.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.2.16" id="Judg.2.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.16 </span><span class="fq">special leaders known as judges: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “judges.” In addition to leading Israelites in battle, these special leaders also decided legal cases and sometimes performed religious duties.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.3.3" id="Judg.3.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.3 </span><span class="fq">Hamath Pass: </span><span class="ft">Or “Lebo-Hamath.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.3.8" id="Judg.3.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.8 </span><span class="fq">northern Syria: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Aram-Naharaim,” probably referring to the land around the city of Haran (see Genesis 24.10; 25.20; 28.2,6; 31.18,20; 33.18; 35.23-26; 46.8-15; 48.7).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.3.9" id="Judg.3.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.9 </span><span class="fq">Othniel was the son of … Kenaz: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.13.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.3.13" id="Judg.3.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.13 </span><span class="fq">Jericho: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.16.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.3.15-Judg.3.16" id="Judg.3.15-Judg.3.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.15,16 </span><span class="fq">Ehud: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Ehud the son of Gera.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.3.19-Judg.3.20" id="Judg.3.19-Judg.3.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.19,20 </span><span class="fq">statues: </span><span class="ft">Or “stone idols” or “stone monuments.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.3.19-Judg.3.20" id="Judg.3.19-Judg.3.20!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.19,20 </span><span class="fq">Gilgal: </span><span class="ft">About two and a half kilometers from Jericho, where Eglon probably was (see verse 13).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.3.19-Judg.3.20" id="Judg.3.19-Judg.3.20!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.19,20 </span><span class="fq">upstairs … room: </span><span class="ft">Houses usually had flat roofs, and sometimes a room was built on one corner of the roof where it could best catch the breeze and be kept cooler than the rest of the house.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.3.22-Judg.3.23" id="Judg.3.22-Judg.3.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.22,23 </span><span class="fq">he climbed … porch: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.3.26" id="Judg.3.26!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.26 </span><span class="fq">statues: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 3.19,20.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.3.31" id="Judg.3.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.31 </span><span class="fq">sharp wooden pole: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “cattle prod,” a pole with a sharpened tip or metal point at one end.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.4.4" id="Judg.4.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.4 </span><span class="fq">leader: </span><span class="ft">See 2.16 and the note there.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.4.11" id="Judg.4.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.11 </span><span class="fq">the village … Zaanannim: </span><span class="ft">Or “the oak tree in the town of Zaanannim.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.7" id="Judg.5.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.7 </span><span class="fq">villagers … fields: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.5.7" id="Judg.5.7!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.7 </span><span class="fq">Deborah: </span><span class="ft">Or “I, Deborah.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.8" id="Judg.5.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.8 </span><span class="fq">The Israelites … attacked: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.11" id="Judg.5.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.11 </span><span class="fq">Even … water: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.13" id="Judg.5.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.13 </span><span class="fq">side: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 13.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.15" id="Judg.5.15!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.15 </span><span class="fq">But … at all: </span><span class="ft">Or “But the people of Reuben couldn't make up their minds.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.16" id="Judg.5.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.16 </span><span class="fq">sheep pens: </span><span class="ft">Or “campfires.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.5.16" id="Judg.5.16!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.16 </span><span class="fq">No … come: </span><span class="ft">Or “The people of Reuben couldn't make up their minds.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.18" id="Judg.5.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.18 </span><span class="fq">to attack the enemy: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.19" id="Judg.5.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.19 </span><span class="fq">stream near Megiddo: </span><span class="ft">Probably refers to one of the streams that flow into the Kishon River.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.5.19" id="Judg.5.19!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.19 </span><span class="fq">rob us of our silver: </span><span class="ft">The army that won a battle would take everything of value from the dead enemy soldiers.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.20" id="Judg.5.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.20 </span><span class="fq">stars: </span><span class="ft">In ancient times, the stars were sometimes regarded as supernatural beings.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.5.30" id="Judg.5.30!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.30 </span><span class="fq">and beautiful … wear: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.6.4-Judg.6.5" id="Judg.6.4-Judg.6.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.4,5 </span><span class="fq">locusts: </span><span class="ft">Insects like grasshoppers that travel in swarms and cause great damage to crops.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.6.19" id="Judg.6.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.19 </span><span class="fq">thin bread: </span><span class="ft">Bread made without yeast, since there was no time for the dough to rise.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.6.22" id="Judg.6.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.22 </span><span class="fq">Now I'm going to die: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face.” Some people believed that if they saw one of the LORD's angels, they would die (see 13.22).</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.6.25" id="Judg.6.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.25 </span><span class="fq">sacred pole: </span><span class="ft">Or “sacred tree,” used as a symbol of Asherah, the Canaanite goddess of fertility.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.6.32" id="Judg.6.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.32 </span><span class="fq">Jerubbaal … take revenge himself: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew, “Jerubbaal” means “Let Baal take revenge.”</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.7.1" id="Judg.7.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.1 </span><span class="fq">Fear Spring: </span><span class="ft">Or “Harod Spring.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.7.1" id="Judg.7.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.1 </span><span class="fq">Moreh Hill: </span><span class="ft">About eight kilometers north of Fear Spring.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.7.3" id="Judg.7.3!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.3 </span><span class="fq">Mount Gilead: </span><span class="ft">Usually “Gilead” refers to an area east of the Jordan River, but in this verse it refers to a place near Jezreel Valley west of the Jordan.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.7.12" id="Judg.7.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.12 </span><span class="fq">locusts: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 6.4,5.</span></span>


bookid: Judg
contenido:
<span verse_id="Judg.7.13" id="Judg.7.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.13 </span><span class="fq">flat: </span><span class="ft">Or “moldy.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Judg.7.13" id="Judg.7.13!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.13 </span><span class="fq">the headquarters tent: </span><span class="ft">Or “a tent.”</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.5.12" id="Song.5.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.12 </span><span class="fq">milk: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 12.</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.5.14" id="Song.5.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.14 </span><span class="fq">his … ivory: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.6.4" id="Song.6.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.4 </span><span class="fq">all … heavens: </span><span class="ft">Or “a mighty army ready for war.”</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.6.7" id="Song.6.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.7 </span><span class="fq">cheeks: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 7.</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.6.10" id="Song.6.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.10 </span><span class="fq">all … above: </span><span class="ft">Or “a mighty army ready for war.”</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.6.12" id="Song.6.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.12 </span><span class="fq">chariot: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 12.</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.6.13" id="Song.6.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.13 </span><span class="fq">dancing … others: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.7.5" id="Song.7.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.5 </span><span class="fq">it … prisoner: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.7.9" id="Song.7.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.9 </span><span class="fq">How … tasty: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.7.13" id="Song.7.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.13 </span><span class="fq">magic flower: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “mandrake,” a plant that was thought to give sexual powers.</span></span>


bookid: Song
contenido:
<span verse_id="Song.8.2" id="Song.8.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.2 </span><span class="fq">who … know: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.1.1" id="Isa.1.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1 </span><span class="fq">message: </span><span class="ft">Or “vision.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.1.1" id="Isa.1.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.1 </span><span class="fq">kings of Judah: </span><span class="ft">Uzziah (783–742 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span>); Jotham (742–735 <span class="sc">b.c.</span>); Ahaz (735–715 <span class="sc">b.c.</span>); Hezekiah (715–687 <span class="sc">b.c.</span>).</span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.1.8" id="Isa.1.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.8 </span><span class="fq">a hut in a vineyard: </span><span class="ft">When it was almost time for grapes to ripen, farmers would put up a temporary shelter or hut in the field or vineyard and stay there to keep thieves and wild animals away.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.1.9" id="Isa.1.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.9 </span><span class="fq">Sodom and Gomorrah: </span><span class="ft">Two ancient cities of Palestine that God destroyed because the people were so wicked (see Genesis 19.1-29).</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.1.17" id="Isa.1.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.17 </span><span class="fq">and help the oppressed: </span><span class="ft">Or “and punish cruel people.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.1.27" id="Isa.1.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.27 </span><span class="fq">by showing justice: </span><span class="ft">Or “by my saving power.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.1.31" id="Isa.1.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">1.31 </span><span class="fq">Your … idols: </span><span class="ft">Or “Your wealth will be like dry wood, set on fire by its owners.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.2.1" id="Isa.2.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.1 </span><span class="fq">message: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.1.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.2.6" id="Isa.2.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.6 </span><span class="fq">because … foreigners: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.2.16" id="Isa.2.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">2.16 </span><span class="fq">seagoing ships: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “ships of Tarshish,” which may have been a Phoenician city in Spain. “Ships of Tarshish” probably means large, seagoing ships.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.3.4" id="Isa.3.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.4 </span><span class="fq">babies: </span><span class="ft">Or “worthless nobodies.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.3.14" id="Isa.3.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">3.14 </span><span class="fq">his vineyard: </span><span class="ft">The nation Israel (see 5.1-7).</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.4.1" id="Isa.4.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.1 </span><span class="fq">take away my disgrace: </span><span class="ft">If a woman did not have a husband or children, it was thought that God was punishing her.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.4.5" id="Isa.4.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">4.5 </span><span class="fq">thick … fire: </span><span class="ft">This is how the LORD led the people of Israel during the 40 years they were in the desert (see Exodus 13.20-22; 40.36-38).</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.5.17" id="Isa.5.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.17 </span><span class="fq">and they … others: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.5.25" id="Isa.5.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">5.25 </span><span class="fq">is ready … again: </span><span class="ft">Or “hasn't given up on you yet.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.6.1" id="Isa.6.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.1 </span><span class="fq">the year that King Uzziah died: </span><span class="ft">Probably 742 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.6.13" id="Isa.6.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">6.13 </span><span class="fq">But just … down: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.7.1" id="Isa.7.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.1 </span><span class="fq">went … had planned: </span><span class="ft">Or “attacked Jerusalem, but could not capture it.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.7.3" id="Isa.7.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.3 </span><span class="fq">Shearjashub: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew “Shearjashub” means “a few will return.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.7.14" id="Isa.7.14!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.14 </span><span class="fq">virgin: </span><span class="ft">Or “young woman.” In this context the difficult Hebrew word did not imply a virgin birth. However, in the Greek translation made about 200 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span> and used by the early Christians, the word <span class="fq">parthenos </span><span class="ft">had a double meaning. While the translator took it to mean “young woman,” Matthew understood it to mean “virgin” and quoted the passage (Matthew 1.23) because it was the appropriate description of Mary, the mother of Jesus.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.7.14" id="Isa.7.14!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.14 </span><span class="fk">Immanuel: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew “Immanuel” means “God is with us.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.7.15-Isa.7.16" id="Isa.7.15-Isa.7.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.15,16 </span><span class="fq">yogurt and honey: </span><span class="ft">This may refer either to expensive foods eaten in a time of plenty or to a limited diet eaten in times of a food shortage.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.7.20" id="Isa.7.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.20 </span><span class="fq">shave … head … body … beard: </span><span class="ft">This would have been a terrible insult.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.7.22" id="Isa.7.22!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">7.22 </span><span class="fq">yogurt and honey: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 7.15,16.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.8.1" id="Isa.8.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.1 </span><span class="fq">in big clear letters: </span><span class="ft">Or “in letters everyone can understand.”</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.8.1" id="Isa.8.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.1 </span><span class="fq">MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ: </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew “Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz” means “suddenly attacked, quickly taken.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.8.6" id="Isa.8.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.6 </span><span class="fq">Shiloah: </span><span class="ft">The canal that brought water from Gihon Spring to Jerusalem.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.8.8" id="Isa.8.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.8 </span><span class="fq">God is with us: </span><span class="ft">Here and in verse 10 this translates the Hebrew word “Immanuel” (see 7.14).</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.8.8" id="Isa.8.8!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">8.8 </span><span class="fq">But … land: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.9.1" id="Isa.9.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.1 </span><span class="fq">will … pain: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.9.3" id="Isa.9.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.3 </span><span class="fq">stronger: </span><span class="ft">Or “happy” or “larger.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.9.4" id="Isa.9.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.4 </span><span class="fq">rescued … from Midian: </span><span class="ft">The time when Gideon defeated the people of Midian in Jezreel Valley (see Judges 6–8).</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.9.11" id="Isa.9.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.11 </span><span class="fq">their enemies: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “the enemies of Rezin.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.9.12" id="Isa.9.12!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.12 </span><span class="fq">so … them: </span><span class="ft">Or “but he hasn't given up on them yet.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.9.17" id="Isa.9.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.17 </span><span class="fq">and kept … against him: </span><span class="ft">Or “but even though they had turned against him, he still had not given up on them.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.9.20" id="Isa.9.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">9.20 </span><span class="fq">their own relatives: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.4" id="Isa.10.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.4 </span><span class="fq">escape being captured: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.10.4" id="Isa.10.4!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.4 </span><span class="fq">and he … yet: </span><span class="ft">Or “but he hasn't given up on you yet!”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.5" id="Isa.10.5!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.5 </span><span class="fq">king of Assyria: </span><span class="ft">Probably King Sennacherib who invaded Israel in 701 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.9" id="Isa.10.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.9 </span><span class="fq">already captured: </span><span class="ft">Calno (in northern Syria), Carchemish (on the Euphrates River), Hamath (on the Orontes River), Arpad (near Aleppo in northern Syria), Samaria, and Damascus had already been captured by Assyrian kings (738–717 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span>).</span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.20" id="Isa.10.20!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.20 </span><span class="fq">nation: </span><span class="ft">That is, Assyria.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.23" id="Isa.10.23!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.23 </span><span class="fq">on this earth: </span><span class="ft">Or “in this land.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.25" id="Isa.10.25!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.25 </span><span class="fq">punish … crimes: </span><span class="ft">Or “completely destroy them.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.27" id="Isa.10.27!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.27 </span><span class="fq">All … you: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.28" id="Isa.10.28!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.28 </span><span class="fq">Aiath: </span><span class="ft">Probably Ai (Joshua 7.2).</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.29" id="Isa.10.29!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.29 </span><span class="fq">Geba: </span><span class="ft">Only nine kilometers from Jerusalem.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.32" id="Isa.10.32!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.32 </span><span class="fq">Nob: </span><span class="ft">Perhaps within three kilometers of Jerusalem.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.10.34" id="Isa.10.34!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">10.34 </span><span class="fq">Lebanon: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 34.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.11.1" id="Isa.11.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.1 </span><span class="fq">David's family: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Jesse's family.” Jesse was the father of King David.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.11.10" id="Isa.11.10!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.10 </span><span class="fq">David's descendants: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew “Jesse's descendants” (see the note at 11.1).</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.11.11" id="Isa.11.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.11 </span><span class="fq">Ethiopia: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Cush,” which was a region south of Egypt that included parts of the present countries of Ethiopia and Sudan.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.11.11" id="Isa.11.11!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.11 </span><span class="fq">land along the coast: </span><span class="ft">Or “islands.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.11.15" id="Isa.11.15!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">11.15 </span><span class="fq">arm of the Red Sea near Egypt: </span><span class="ft">Gulf of Suez.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.12.2" id="Isa.12.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">12.2 </span><span class="fq">strength: </span><span class="ft">Or “song.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.13.1" id="Isa.13.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.1 </span><span class="fq">message: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 1.1.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.13.17" id="Isa.13.17!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.17 </span><span class="fq">Medes: </span><span class="ft">People of a nation northeast of Babylonia, which became part of the Persian Empire.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.13.21" id="Isa.13.21!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">13.21 </span><span class="fq">goats: </span><span class="ft">Or “demons.”</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.14.4" id="Isa.14.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.4 </span><span class="fq">He … again: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.14.19" id="Isa.14.19!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.19 </span><span class="fq">deep rocky pit: </span><span class="ft">The world of the dead.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.14.28" id="Isa.14.28!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.28 </span><span class="fq">King Ahaz died: </span><span class="ft">715 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.14.31" id="Isa.14.31!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">14.31 </span><span class="fq">north: </span><span class="ft">The Assyrian and Babylonian attacks came from the north.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.15.2" id="Isa.15.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.2 </span><span class="fq">Everyone … temple: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.15.2" id="Isa.15.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.2 </span><span class="fq">Heads … shaved: </span><span class="ft">As a sign of sorrow and mourning.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.15.9" id="Isa.15.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.9 </span><span class="fq">Dimon … Dimon: </span><span class="ft">The Standard Hebrew Text; the Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation have </span><span class="fk">Dibon … Dibon.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.15.9" id="Isa.15.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">15.9 </span><span class="fq">lions: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 9.</span></span>


bookid: Isa
contenido:
<span verse_id="Isa.16.1" id="Isa.16.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.1 </span><span class="fq">lambs: </span><span class="ft">The main product of Moab.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.16.1" id="Isa.16.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.1 </span><span class="fq">Sela: </span><span class="ft">A town in Edom.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.16.7" id="Isa.16.7!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.7 </span><span class="fq">fancy raisins: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “raisin-cakes,” which could mean either the rich produce or the prosperous farmers.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.16.8" id="Isa.16.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">16.8 </span><span class="fq">The rulers … vineyards: </span><span class="ft">Or “The rulers of nations have destroyed those vineyards.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.17.2" id="Isa.17.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.2 </span><span class="fq">Aroer: </span><span class="ft">Either a city near Damascus with the same name as the Moabite city or the Moabite city itself, here used as an example of what will happen to Damascus.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.17.3" id="Isa.17.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.3 </span><span class="fq">Israel: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “Ephraim,” another name for the northern kingdom.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.17.8" id="Isa.17.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.8 </span><span class="fq">sacred poles: </span><span class="ft">Or “trees,” used as symbols of Asherah, the goddess of fertility.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.17.9" id="Isa.17.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.9 </span><span class="fq">covered … underbrush: </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; one ancient translation “like the cities of the Hivites and the Amorites.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.17.10" id="Isa.17.10!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">17.10 </span><span class="fq">mighty rock: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “rock,” which is sometimes used in poetry to compare the Lord to a mountain where his people can run for protection from their enemies.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.18.1" id="Isa.18.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.1 </span><span class="fq">Ethiopia: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 11.11.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.18.1" id="Isa.18.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.1 </span><span class="fq">insects: </span><span class="ft">Or “sailing ships.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.18.2" id="Isa.18.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.2 </span><span class="fq">reeds: </span><span class="ft">Ancient Egypt was famous for the papyrus reeds that grew in the Nile Delta.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.18.2" id="Isa.18.2!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">18.2 </span><span class="fq">world: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 2.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.19.9" id="Isa.19.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.9 </span><span class="fq">cloth makers: </span><span class="ft">Cloth was made from several kinds of plants that grew in the fields along the Nile.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.19.9" id="Isa.19.9!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.9 </span><span class="fq">turn pale: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.19.11" id="Isa.19.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.11 </span><span class="fq">Zoan: </span><span class="ft">The city of Tanis in the Nile delta.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.19.18" id="Isa.19.18!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">19.18 </span><span class="fq">City of the Sun: </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of the Standard Hebrew Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and one ancient translation; most manuscripts of the Standard Hebrew Text have “City of Destruction.” This probably refers to Heliopolis which means “City of the Sun” (see Jeremiah 43.13).</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.20.1" id="Isa.20.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.1 </span><span class="fq">Ashdod: </span><span class="ft">King Sargon II of Assyria captured this Philistine city in 711 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.20.3" id="Isa.20.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.3 </span><span class="fq">Ethiopia: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 11.11.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.20.6" id="Isa.20.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">20.6 </span><span class="fq">people … coast: </span><span class="ft">Probably the Philistines.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.21.1" id="Isa.21.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.1 </span><span class="fq">Babylonia: </span><span class="ft">King Cyrus and his army of Medes and Persians captured the city of Babylon in 539 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.21.1" id="Isa.21.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.1 </span><span class="fq">This … sea: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. The prophet may be speaking of Babylonia as a desert, because of the terrible punishment God will bring on it. The southern part of Babylonia on the Persian Gulf was sometimes called “the land beside the sea.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.21.2" id="Isa.21.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.2 </span><span class="fq">Elam and Media: </span><span class="ft">People from the Iranian highlands; the capital of Elam was Susa, in the hill country east of Babylon.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.21.8" id="Isa.21.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.8 </span><span class="fq">guard: </span><span class="ft">The Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation; the Standard Hebrew Text has “lion.”</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.21.11" id="Isa.21.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.11 </span><span class="fq">Dumah … Seir: </span><span class="ft">Dumah was an oasis in the Arabian desert. One ancient translation has “Edom,” which may be what is meant. Seir is a mountainous region of Edom southwest of the Dead Sea.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.21.13" id="Isa.21.13!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.13 </span><span class="fq">Dedan: </span><span class="ft">A region in northwest Arabia.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.21.14" id="Isa.21.14!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.14 </span><span class="fq">Tema: </span><span class="ft">A region in north Arabia.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.21.16" id="Isa.21.16!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">21.16 </span><span class="fq">Kedar: </span><span class="ft">A region in the Arabian desert.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.22.1" id="Isa.22.1!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.1 </span><span class="fq">Vision Valley: </span><span class="ft">The exact location is not known. In Hebrew the name sounds something like “Hinnom Valley,” where the people of Jerusalem sometimes offered human sacrifices to the gods of Canaan.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.22.1" id="Isa.22.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.1 </span><span class="fq">flat roofs: </span><span class="ft">In Palestine the houses usually had a flat roof. Stairs on the outside led up to the roof, which was made of beams and boards covered with packed earth.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.22.3" id="Isa.22.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.3 </span><span class="fq">No matter … caught: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.22.5" id="Isa.22.5!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.5 </span><span class="fq">and for … help: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.22.6" id="Isa.22.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.6 </span><span class="fq">Elam and Kir: </span><span class="ft">Regions in the Iranian highlands.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.22.6" id="Isa.22.6!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.6 </span><span class="fq">chariots: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.22.8" id="Isa.22.8!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.8 </span><span class="fq">Forest Palace: </span><span class="ft">Built by Solomon (1 Kings 7.2) and used as a place for storing weapons.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.22.9" id="Isa.22.9!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.9 </span><span class="fq">the lower pool: </span><span class="ft">Mentioned only here; probably in the southern part of the Central Valley (Tyropoean Valley) of Jerusalem.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.22.11" id="Isa.22.11!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">22.11 </span><span class="fq">between the walls: </span><span class="ft">Some cities had two walls with a space between them. If the enemy broke through the outer wall, the city was still protected by the inner wall. The houses that were torn down to repair the outer wall were probably squatters' huts that had been built between the two walls.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.23.1" id="Isa.23.1!f.2" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.1 </span><span class="fq">Tyre: </span><span class="ft">A fortress city built on an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of what is now Lebanon.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.23.1" id="Isa.23.1!f.3" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.1 </span><span class="fq">seagoing ships: </span><span class="ft">See the note at 2.16.</span></span> <br><br> <span verse_id="Isa.23.1" id="Isa.23.1!f.4" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.1 </span><span class="fq">Tyre … ruins: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.23.2" id="Isa.23.2!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.2 </span><span class="fq">Sidon: </span><span class="ft">A coastal city just north of Tyre.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.23.3" id="Isa.23.3!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.3 </span><span class="fq">along the Nile: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile,” but Shihor is probably a name for a region near the lower part of the Nile.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.23.4" id="Isa.23.4!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.4 </span><span class="fq">children: </span><span class="ft">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</span></span>


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<span verse_id="Isa.23.6" id="Isa.23.6!f.1" class="note f"><span class="fr">23.6 </span><span class="fq">far across the ocean: </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew text has “to Tarshish,” probably meaning a long distance.</span></span>


