translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “saying.”


text: Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”


text: Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”


label: NET textual note

text: The MT has “and he saw,” but some medieval Hebrew mss as well as several ancient versions support the reading “he was afraid.” The consonantal text ( וַיַּרְא , vayyar ’) is ambiguous and can be vocalized וַיַּרְא (from רָאָה , ra ’ ah , “to see”) or וַיִּרָא ( vayyira ’, from יָרֵא , yare ’, “to fear”).


text: Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5 ).


text: Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Or “lay down.”


text: Heb “Look, a messenger.”


text: Heb “and again lay down”


text: Heb “for the journey is too great for you.”


text: Or “very zealous.” The infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb emphasizes the degree of his zeal and allegiance.


text: Traditionally, “the God of hosts.”


text: Heb “abandoned your covenant.”


text: Heb “and they are seeking my life to take it.”


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


text: Heb “tearing away the mountains and breaking the cliffs” (or perhaps, “breaking the stones”).


text: Heb “a voice, calm, soft.”


text: Heb “look.”


text: Heb “I have kept in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and all the mouths that have not kissed him.”


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


text: Heb “and with the equipment of the oxen he cooked them, the flesh.”