translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “and the days of David approached to die.”


text: Or “commanded.”


text: Heb “going the way of all the earth.”


text: Heb “keep the charge of the Lord your God.”


text: Heb “by walking in his ways.”


text: Or “keeping.”


text: Heb “then you will cause to succeed all which you do and all which you turn there.”


text: Heb “then the Lord will establish his word which he spoke to me, saying.”


text: Heb “guard their way.”


text: Heb “by walking before me in faithfulness.”


text: Or “soul.”


text: Heb “saying.”


text: Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from upon the throne of Israel.”


text: Heb “what he did to the two commanders…and he killed them.”


text: Heb “he shed the blood of battle in peace.”


text: Heb “and he shed the blood of battle when he killed which is on his waist and on his sandal[s] which are on his feet.” That is, he covered himself with guilt and his guilt was obvious to all who saw him.


text: Heb “according to your wisdom.”


text: Heb “and do not bring down his grey hair in peace [to] Sheol.”


text: Heb “do loyalty with”; or “act faithfully toward.”


text: Heb “and let them be among the ones who eat [at] your table.”


text: Heb “drew near to.”


text: Heb “Look, with you is Shimei….”


text: Heb “and he cursed me with a horrible curse on the day I went to Mahanaim.”


text: Or “swore an oath to.”


text: Heb “kill you.”


label: NET textual note

text: The Lucianic recension of the Old Greek and the Vulgate have here “you” rather than “now.” The two words are homonyms in Hebrew.


text: Heb “what you should do to him.”


text: Heb “bring his grey hair down in blood [to] Sheol.”


text: Heb “and David lay down with his fathers.”


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


text: Or “kingship.”


text: Heb “[in] peace.”


text: Heb “and he said.”


text: Heb “set their face to me to be king.”


text: Heb “and the kingdom turned about and became my brother’s, for from the Lord it became his.”


text: Heb “Do not turn back my face.”


text: Heb “She said, ‘Speak!’”


text: Heb “Say to Solomon the king, for he will not turn back your face, that he might give to me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.”


text: Heb “[It is] good!”


text: Or “meet.”


text: Heb “he set up a throne for the mother of the king.”


text: Or “I’d like to make just one request of you.”


text: Heb “and the king said to her.”


text: Heb “for Adonijah.”


text: Heb “So may God do to me, and so may he add.”


text: Heb “if with his life Adonijah has not spoken this word.”


text: Heb “house.”


text: The Hebrew text adds, “by the hand of.”


text: Heb “and he struck him and he died.”


text: Or “field.”


text: Heb “you are a man of death.”


text: Heb “and because you suffered through all which my father suffered.”


text: Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).


text: Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”


text: Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”


text: Heb “saying, “In this way Joab spoke and in this way he answered me.”


text: Heb “take away the undeserved bloodshed which Joab spilled from upon me and from upon the house of my father.”


text: Heb “The Lord will cause his blood to return upon his head.”


text: Heb “because he struck down two men more innocent and better than he and he killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know.”


text: Heb “his throne.”


text: Heb “struck him and killed him.” The referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “over.”


text: The Old Greek translation includes after v. 35 some fourteen verses that are absent from the MT.


text: Heb “sent and summoned.”


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


text: Heb “and you may not go out from there here or there.”


text: Heb “your blood will be upon your head.”


text: Heb “Good is the word, as my master the king has spoken.”


text: Heb “so your servant will do.”


text: Heb “many days.”


text: Heb “Is it not [true]…?” In the Hebrew text the statement is interrogative; the rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course it is.”


text: Heb “here or there.”


text: Heb “good is the word; I have heard.”


text: Heb “Why have you not kept the oath [to] the Lord and the commandment I commanded you?”


text: Heb “You know all the evil, for your heart knows, which you did to David my father.”


text: Heb “The Lord will cause your evil to return upon your head.”


text: Or “blessed.”


text: Heb “throne.”


text: “The king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada and he went out and struck him down and he died.”


text: “And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.”