translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: For location see Map1-A2 ; Map2-G2 ; Map4-A1 ; JP3-F3 ; JP4-F3 .


text: Heb “his servants.”


text: Heb “a house for the name of the Lord. ” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.


text: Heb “because of the battles which surrounded him until the Lord placed them under the soles of his feet.”


text: Heb “Look, I am saying.”


text: Heb “a house for my name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor. The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.


text: Or “Blessed be the Lord today, who….”


text: Heb “heard.”


text: Heb “I will satisfy all your desire with respect to cedar wood and with respect to the wood of evergreens.”


text: Heb “I will place them [on? as?] rafts in the sea to the place where you designate to me.” This may mean he would send them by raft, or that he would tie them in raft-like bundles, and have ships tow them down to an Israelite port.


text: Heb “smash them,” i.e., untie the bundles.


text: Heb “as for you, you will satisfy my desire by giving food for my house.”


text: Heb “and Hiram gave to Solomon cedar wood and the wood of evergreens, all his desire.”


text: Heb “his house.”


label: NET textual note

text: The Hebrew text has “twenty cors,” but the ancient Greek version and the parallel text in 2 Chr 2:10 read “twenty thousand baths.” sn A bath was a liquid measure equivalent to almost six gallons.


text: Or “pressed.”


text: Heb “and Solomon supplied Hiram with twenty thousand cors of wheat…pure olive oil. So Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.”


text: Heb “a covenant,” referring to a formal peace treaty or alliance.


text: Heb “raised up.”


text: Heb “was over.”


text: Heb “carriers of loads.”


text: Heb “cutters” (probably of stones).


text: Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.


text: Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”


text: Heb “and the king commanded.”


text: Heb “builders.”


text: Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”


text: The LXX includes the words “for three years.”