1 Chronicles 18:2-4

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 1 Chronicles 18:2 tn Heb “carriers of tribute,” i.e., tribute payers.
2. 1 Chronicles 18:3 tn Heb “hand.”
3. 1 Chronicles 18:3 tn Heb “when he went to set up his hand at the Euphrates River.” The Hebrew word יָד (yad, “hand”) is usually understood to mean “control” or “dominion” here. However, since יָד does occasionally refer to a monument, perhaps one could translate, “to set up his monument at the Euphrates River” (i.e., as a visible marker of the limits of his dominion). For another example of the Hiphil of נָצַב (natsav) used with יָד (“monument”), see 1 Sam 15:12.
4. 1 Chronicles 18:4 tn Or “horsemen.”
5. 1 Chronicles 18:4 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Hadadezer) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6. 1 Chronicles 18:4 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them one hundred chariot horses.”