ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS COMMENTARY
| AB | Anchor Bible Commentaries, ed. William Foxwell Albright and David Noel Freedman |
| ABD | Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols.), ed. David Noel Freedman |
| ABPS | American Baptist Publication Society |
| AKOT | Analytical Key to the Old Testament by John Joseph Owens |
| ANE | Ancient Near East |
| ANET | Ancient Near Eastern Texts, James B. Pritchard |
| ASV | American Standard Version |
| AV | Authorized Version |
| BAGD | A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Walter Bauer, 2nd ed. by F. W. Gingrich and Fredrick Danker |
| BDB | A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by F. Brown, S. R. Driver and C. A. Briggs |
| BHS | Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, GBS, 1997 |
| DSS | Dead Sea Scrolls |
| EJ | Encyclopedia Judaica |
| IDB | The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (4 vols.), ed. George A. Buttrick |
| ISBE | International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (5 vols.), ed. James Orr |
| JB | Jerusalem Bible |
| JPSOA | The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text: A New Translation (The Jewish Publication Society of America) |
| KB | The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament by Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner |
| KJV | King James Version |
| LAM | The Holy Bible From Ancient Eastern Manuscripts (the Peshitta) by George M. Lamsa |
| LUCIAN | A Second Century Recension of the LXX from Antioch, Syria |
| LXX | Septuagint (Greek-English) by Zondervan, 1970 |
| MOF | A New Translation of the Bible by James Moffatt |
| MT | Masoretic Hebrew Text |
| NAB | New American Bible Text |
| NASB | New American Standard Bible |
| NCV | New Century Version by Thomas Nelson, published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing, 2005 |
| NEB | New English Bible |
| NET |
NET Bible: New English Translation, Second Beta Edition |
| NIDNTT | New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (4 vol.s), by Colin Brown |
| NIDOTTE | New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis (5 vols.), ed. Willem VanGemeren |
| NIV | New International Version |
| NJB | New Jerusalem Bible |
| NKJV | New King James Version |
| NRSV | New Revised Standard Bible |
| OTPG | Old Testament Passing Guide by Todd S. Beall, William A. Banks and Colin Smith |
| REB | Revised English Bible |
| RSV | Revised Standard Version |
| SEPT | A New English Translation of the Septuagint by Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| TCNT | The Twentieth Century New Testament |
| TEV | Today's English Version from United Bible Societies |
| UBS4 | United Bible Societies' The Greek New Testament, fourth revised edition |
| YLT | Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible by Robert Young |
| Williams | C. B. Williams, The NT in the Language of the People |
| ZPEB | Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible (5 vols.), ed. Merrill C. Tenney |
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