translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “were scribes”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “secretaries”; TEV, NLT “court secretaries.”


text: Heb “was over.”


text: Heb “close associate of”; KJV, ASV, NASB “the king’s friend” (a title for an adviser, not just an acquaintance).


text: Heb “over the house.”


text: For location see Map1-D4 ; Map2-C1 ; Map4-C2 ; Map5-F2 ; Map7-B1 .


text: Heb “the River” (also in v. 24 ). This is the standard designation for the Euphrates River in biblical Hebrew.


text: Heb “[They] were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life.”


text: Heb “the food of Solomon for each day was.”


text: As a unit of dry measure a cor was roughly equivalent to six bushels.


text: The words “in the stall” are added for clarification; note the immediately following reference to cattle from the pasture.


text: Heb “because.” The words “his royal court was so large” are added to facilitate the logical connection with the preceding verse.


text: Heb “for he was ruling over all [the region] beyond the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kingdoms beyond the River, and he had peace on every side all around.”


text: Heb “Judah and Israel lived securely, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan to Beer Sheba, all the days of Solomon.”


text: The Hebrew text has “40,000,” but this is probably an inflated number (nevertheless it is followed by KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV). Some Greek mss of the OT and the parallel in 2 Chr 9:25 read “4,000” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).


text: Heb “everyone who drew near to the table of King Solomon.”


text: Heb “barley and straw for the horses and the steeds they brought to the place which was there, each according to his measure.”


text: Heb “heart,” i.e., mind. (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)


text: Heb “the wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.”


text: Heb “his name was in all the surrounding nations.”


text: Heb “spoke.”


text: Heb “he spoke about plants.”


text: Heb “he spoke about.”


text: Heb “the wisdom of Solomon.”