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the food in his banquet hall,[a] his servants and attendants[b] in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple,[c] she was amazed.[d]

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  1. 2 Chronicles 9:4 tn Heb “the food on his table.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:4 tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 9:4 tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (ʿaliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (ʿolato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.
  4. 2 Chronicles 9:4 tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”