translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “and not to be listed in the genealogical records as (having) the right of the firstborn.”


text: Heb “and [one] for a leader [was] from him.” This probably refers to the Davidic king.


text: Heb “Tilgath-pilneser,” a variant spelling of Tiglath-pileser (also in v. 26 ).


text: Heb “he”; the referent (Beerah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “and in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagrites and they fell by their hand and they lived in their tents unto all the face of the east of Gilead.”


text: Heb “and their brothers by the house of their fathers.”


text: Heb “was the head of the house of their fathers.”


text: Heb “unto their extremities.”


text: Heb “the sons of Reuben and the Gadites and half of the tribe of Manasseh, from the sons of bravery, men carrying a shield and sword and treading a bow and trained for war, 44,760 going out for warfare.”


text: Heb “made war with.”


text: Heb “and they were helped against them and they were given over into their hand, the Hagrites and all who were with them, for to God they cried out in the battle and he was entreated [or “allowed himself to be entreated”] by them for they trusted in him.”


text: Heb “their”; the referent (the Hagrites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “from God [was] the battle.”


text: Heb “many slain fell.”


text: Heb “and they lived in place of them until the exile.” The referent of “them” (the Hagrites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “and these [were] the heads of the house of their fathers.”


text: Heb “men of names.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Heb “prostituted themselves after.”


text: Heb “the peoples of the land.”


text: Heb “stirred up the spirit of.”


text: Heb “and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria.” “Pul” and “Tilgath-pilneser” were names of the same Assyrian ruler, more commonly known as Tiglath-pileser (cf. 2 Kgs 15:29 ).