translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: 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.”


text: Heb “the leader.”


text: Heb “That [was the] Benaiah [who was] a warrior of the thirty and over the thirty, and his division, Ammizabad his son.”


text: Heb “[was] after him.”


text: Heb “anger was on Israel.”


label: NET textual note

text: The Hebrew text has “in the number,” but מִסְפַּר ( mispar ) is probably dittographic – note that the same word appears immediately before this. The form should be emended to בְּסֵפֶר ( bÿsefar , “in the scroll”).


text: Heb “with respect to the work of the land.” The phrase refers to agricultural labor; see HALOT 776-77 s.v. עֲבֹדָה .


text: Heb “and over [that] which is in the vineyards, with respect to the storehouses of the wine, [was] Zabdi the Shiphmite.”


text: Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”


text: Heb “was an adviser, a man of insight, and a scribe.”


text: Heb “[was] with” (so KJV, ASV); NASB “tutored”; NRSV “attended”; NLT “was responsible to teach.’


text: Heb “friend.”