translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET textual note

text: The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”


text: Heb “only Dagon was left.” We should probably read the word גֵּו ( gev , “back”) before Dagon, understanding it to have the sense of the similar word גְּוִיָּה ( gÿviyyah , “body”). This variant is supported by the following evidence: The LXX has ἡ ῥάχις ( Jh rJacis , “the back” or “trunk”); the Syriac Peshitta has wegusmeh (“and the body of”); the Targum has gupyeh (“the body of”); the Vulgate has truncus (“the trunk of,” cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV, NLT). On the strength of this evidence the present translation employs the phrase “Dagon’s body.”


label: NET translator note

text: Heb “the hand of the Lord was heavy upon.”


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


text: The LXX and Vulgate add the following: “And mice multiplied in their land, and the terror of death was throughout the entire city.” tn Or “tumors” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NCV “growths on their skin”; KJV “emerods”; NAB “hemorrhoids.”


text: Heb “men.”


text: Heb “for his hand is severe upon.”


text: Heb “and they sent and gathered.”


text: Heb “the hand of the Lord was against the city.”


text: Heb “and he struck the men of the city from small and to great.”


text: See the note on this term in v. 6 . Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”


text: Heb “to me.”


text: Heb “my.”


text: Heb “me.”


text: Or “panic.”


text: Heb “the hand of God was very heavy there.”