translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he wanted to do.”


text: Heb “I have heard.”


text: Heb “by placing my name there perpetually” (or perhaps, “forever”).


text: Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”


text: Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” Verse 4 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 5 .


text: Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever.”


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


text: Heb “which I placed before you.”


text: Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”


text: Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”


text: Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.” sn Instead of “I will send away,” the parallel text in 2 Chr 7:20 has “I will throw away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.


text: Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.


text: Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”


text: Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.


text: Heb “and they will say.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”


text: Heb “the two houses, the house of the Lord and the house of the king.”


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


text: Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”


text: Heb “and he said.”


text: Heb “my brother.” Kings allied through a parity treaty would sometimes address each other as “my brother.” See 1 Kgs 20:32-33 .


text: Heb “he called them the land of Cabul to this day.” The significance of the name is unclear, though it appears to be disparaging. The name may be derived from a root, attested in Akkadian and Arabic, meaning “bound” or “restricted.” Some propose a wordplay, pointing out that the name “Cabul” sounds like a Hebrew phrase meaning, “like not,” or “as good as nothing.”


text: The Hebrew term כִּכָּר ( kikkar , “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 9,000 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “five tons”; TEV “4,000 kilogrammes.”


text: Heb “raised up.”


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


text: The words “the cities of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: For location see Map1-D2 ; Map2-D3 ; Map3-A2 ; Map4-C1 .


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


text: The Hebrew text has “in the wilderness, in the land.”


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


text: Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”


text: Heb “and the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”


text: Heb “all the people who were left from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from the sons of Israel.”


text: Heb “their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel were unable to wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a crew of labor to this day.”


text: Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”


text: Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who were over the work belonging to Solomon, five hundred fifty, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”


text: Heb “As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her house which he built for her, then he built the terrace.”


text: Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”


text: Heb “and he made complete the house.”


text: Or “a fleet” (in which case “ships” would be implied).


text: Heb “and Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, men of ships, [who] know the sea, [to be] with the servants of Solomon.”


text: Heb “went.”


text: The Hebrew term כִּכָּר ( kikkar , “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 31,500 pounds of gold (cf. NCV); CEV, NLT “sixteen tons”; TEV “more than 14,000 kilogrammes.”