[6:4] 1 tn On the phrase אַמּוֹת הַסִּפִּים (’ammot hassippim, “pivots of the frames”) see HALOT 763 s.v. סַף.
[22:6] 2 tn Heb “[with] the chariots of men, horsemen.”
[22:6] 3 sn A distant region in the direction of Mesopotamia; see Amos 1:5; 9:7.
[22:6] 4 tn Heb “Kir uncovers” (so NAB, NIV).
[22:6] 5 sn The Elamites and men of Kir may here symbolize a fierce army from a distant land. If this oracle anticipates a Babylonian conquest of the city (see 39:5-7), then the Elamites and men of Kir are perhaps viewed here as mercenaries in the Babylonian army. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:410.