19:1 The second lot belonged to the tribe of Simeon by its clans. 4
28:1 In those days the Philistines gathered their troops 5 for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, “You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.” 6
1 tn Heb “Call for this Shunammite woman.”
2 tn Heb “and he called for her and she stood before him.”
3 tn Or “their inheritance.”
4 tn Heb “and the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon by their clans.”
5 tn Heb “their camps.”
6 tc The translation follows the LXX (εἰς πόλεμον, eis polemon) and a Qumran
7 tn Grk “to them”; the referent (the apostles) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 sn After his suffering is a reference to Jesus’ crucifixion and the abuse which preceded it.
9 tn Grk “during forty days.” The phrase “over a forty-day period” is used rather than “during forty days” because (as the other NT accounts of Jesus’ appearances make clear) Jesus was not continually visible to the apostles during the forty days, but appeared to them on various occasions.