Footnote 2 – The ‘Daughters of Judah’ Are Really Rural Satellites of an Urban Center

I have used the translation of the King James Version. Banot is also translated “daughters” in the Revised Standard Version, Jerusalem Bible and the New American Standard Bible. It is rendered as ‘villages’ by the New International Version. This interpretation, while losing something of the poetry of the traditional rendering, is, as we shall see, more accurate.