1 Raja-raja 2:7

2:7 “Treat fairly ¹  the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and provide for their needs, ²  because they helped me ³  when I had to flee from your brother Absalom.

1 Raja-raja 20:27

20:27 When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks ⁴  of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

[2:7]  ¹ tn Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”

[2:7]  ² tn Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”

[2:7]  ³ tn Heb “drew near to.”

[20:27]  ⁴ tn The noun translated “small flocks” occurs only here. The common interpretation derives the word from the verbal root חשׂף, “to strip off; to make bare.” In this case the noun refers to something “stripped off” or “made bare.” HALOT 359 s.v. II חשׂף derives the noun from a proposed homonymic verbal root (which occurs only in Ps 29:9) meaning “cause a premature birth.” In this case the derived noun could refer to goats that are undersized because they are born prematurely.