translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “you must not go into them, and they must not go into you.”


text: Heb “Surely they will bend your heart after their gods.” The words “if you do” are supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “Solomon clung to them for love.” The pronominal suffix, translated “them,” is masculine here, even though it appears the foreign women are in view. Perhaps this is due to attraction to the masculine forms used of the nations earlier in the verse.


text: Heb “wives, princesses.”


text: Heb “his wives bent his heart.”


text: Heb “bent his heart after.”


text: Heb “his heart was not complete with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.”


text: Heb “walked after.”


text: Heb “Milcom, the detestable thing of the Ammonites.”


text: Heb “in the eyes of the Lord .”


text: The idiomatic statement reads in Hebrew, “he did not fill up after.”


text: Heb “then.”


text: Heb “Chemosh, the detestable thing of Moab.”


label: NET textual note

text: The MT reads “Molech,” but Milcom must be intended (see vv. 5, 33 ).


text: Heb “and the same thing he did for all his foreign wives, [who] were burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.”


text: Heb “bent his heart.”


text: Heb “and had commanded him concerning this thing not to walk after other gods.”


text: Or “keep.”


text: Heb “Because this is with you, and you have not kept my covenant and my rules which I commanded you.”


text: Heb “give.”


text: Or “raised up.”


text: Heb “when David was [fighting (?)] with Edom.”


text: Heb “and all Israel.”


text: Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”


text: The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.


text: Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”


text: Heb “and they arose from Midian and went to Paran and they took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and he gave to him a house and food and he said to him, and a land he gave to him.” Something seems to be accidentally omitted after “and he said to him.”


text: Heb “and Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh.”


text: Heb “and he gave to him a wife, the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”


text: Heb “bore him Genubath his son.”


text: The Hebrew text reads וַתִּגְמְלֵהוּ ( vattigmÿlehu , “weaned him”) but a slight alteration of the consonantal text yields וַתִּגְדְלֵהוּ ( vattigdÿlehu , “raised him”), which seems to make better sense.


text: Heb “lay down with his fathers.”


text: Heb “send me away.”


text: Heb “Indeed what do you lack with me, that now you are seeking to go to your land?”


text: Heb “and he said.”


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


text: Heb “and he was the officer of a raiding band.”


text: The Hebrew text reads “when David killed them.” This phrase is traditionally joined with what precedes. The ancient Greek version does not reflect the phrase and some suggest that it has been misplaced from the end of v. 23 .


text: The construction (Qal of קוּץ + בְּ [ quts + bet ] preposition) is rare, but not without parallel (see Lev 20:23 ).


text: Heb “raised a hand against.”


text: Heb “Ephrathite,” which here refers to an Ephraimite (see HALOT 81 s.v. אֶפְרַיִם ).


text: Heb “this is the matter concerning which he raised a hand against the king.”


text: Heb “man of strength.”


text: Heb “house.”


text: The Hebrew text has simply “he,” making it a bit unclear whether Jeroboam or Ahijah is the subject, but in the Hebrew word order Ahijah is the nearer antecedent, and this is followed by the present translation.


text: Heb “and Ahijah grabbed the new robe that was on him.”


text: The words “I am taking the kingdom from him” are supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: This is the reading of the MT; the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate read “he has.”


text: Heb “walked in my ways.”


text: Heb “by doing what is right in my eyes, my rules and my regulations, like David his father.”


text: Heb “and I will give it to you, ten tribes.”


text: Heb “give.”


text: Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem.” The metaphorical “lamp” symbolizes the Davidic dynasty. Because this imagery is unfamiliar to the modern reader, the translation “so my servant David’s dynasty may continue to serve me” has been used.


text: Heb “so there might be a lamp for David my servant all the days before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.”


text: Heb “take.”


text: Heb “If you obey.” In the Hebrew text v. 38 is actually one long conditional sentence, which has been broken into two parts in the translation for stylistic purposes.


text: Heb “walk in my ways.”


text: Heb “do what is right in my eyes.”


text: Heb “I will build for you a permanent house, like I built for David.”


text: Heb “but not all the days.”


text: Heb “but Jeroboam arose and ran away to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt.”


text: Heb “As for the rest of the events of Solomon, and all which he did, and his wisdom, are they not written on the scroll of the events of Solomon?”


text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Heb “lay down with his fathers.”


text: Before this sentence the Old Greek translation includes the following words: “And it so happened that when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard – now he was in Egypt where he had fled from before Solomon and was residing in Egypt – he came straight to his city in the land of Sarira which is on mount Ephraim. And king Solomon slept with his fathers.”