¹tn Heb “and the sons of Israel according to their number, heads of the fathers and the commanders of the thousands and the hundreds and their officers who served the king with respect to every matter of the divisions, [that which] comes and goes out month by month according to all the months of the year, one division [was] twenty-four thousand.”
²tn Heb “the leader.”
³tn Heb “That [was the] Benaiah [who was] a warrior of the thirty and over the thirty, and his division, Ammizabad his son.”
⁴tn Heb “[was] after him.”
⁵tn Heb “anger was on Israel.”
⁶tc The Hebrew text has “in the number,” but rpsm is probably dittographic—note that the same word appears immediately before this. The form should be emended to rpsb, “in the scroll.”
⁷tn Heb “with respect to the work of the land.” The phrase refers to agricultural labor; see HALOT 776.
⁸tn Heb “and over [that] which is in the vineyards, with respect to the storehouses of the wine, [was] Zabdi the Shiphmite.”
⁹tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”
¹⁰tn Heb “was an adviser, a man of insight, and a scribe.”
¹¹tn Heb “[was] with.”
¹²tn Heb “friend.”