translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “trembled to meet.”


text: Heb “let not a man know anything about the matter [for] which I am sending you and [about] which I commanded you.”


text: Heb “servants.”


text: The Hebrew expression here refers to a particular, but unnamed, place. It occurs in the OT only here, in 2 Kgs 6:8 , and in Ruth 4:1 , where Boaz uses it to refer to Naomi’s unnamed kinsman-redeemer. A contracted form of the expression appears in Dan 8:13 .


text: Heb “under your hand.”


text: Heb “have kept themselves from women” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “haven’t had sexual relations recently”; NLT “have not slept with any women recently.”


text: Heb “servants’.”


text: Heb “placed these matters in his heart.”


text: Heb “in their eyes.”


text: Heb “in their hand.”