[2:11] tn Heb “has married the daughter of a foreign god.” Marriage is used here as a metaphor to describe Judah's idolatry, that is, her unfaithfulness to the ...

11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh's daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh's daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

[11:6] tn Heb “do not let your hand rest.” The Hebrew phrase “do not let your hand rest” is an idiom that means “do not stop working” or “do not be idle” (e.g., ...

2:13 When he went out the next day, there were two Hebrew men fighting. ... 11 to describe the ease with which God and Moses conversed. ... [16:1] sn Exod 16 plays ...

The term “toil” is used in a pejorative sense to emphasize that the only thing that man obtains ultimately from all his efforts is weariness and exhaustion. Due ...

[8:9] sn This small horn is Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who controlled the Seleucid kingdom from ca. 175-164 B.C . Antiochus was extremely hostile toward the Jews ...

2:11 Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. ... For Judah has profaned the holy things that the Lord loves ...

[1:3] tn Heb “the man.” The Hebrew term could be used here in a generic sense, referring to the typical man (hence, “a man”). However, it is more likely that ...

[1:26] tn The Hebrew word is אָדָם ('adam), which can sometimes refer to man, as opposed to woman. The term refers here to humankind, comprised of male and female ...