translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “men.”


text: Heb “house” (also in the following verse).


text: Heb “mourned after”; NIV “mourned and sought after”; KJV, NRSV “lamented after”; NAB “turned to”; NCV “began to follow…again.”


text: Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural; also in the following verse). The words “images of” are supplied for clarity. sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. The presence of Ashtarot in Israel is a sign of pervasive pagan and idolatrous influences; hence Samuel calls for their removal. See 1 Sam 31:10 , where the Philistines deposit the armor of the deceased Saul in the temple of the Ashtarot, and 1 Kgs 11:5, 33 ; 2 Kgs 23:13 , where Solomon is faulted for worshiping the Ashtarot.


text: Following imperatives, the jussive verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.


text: Heb “the sons of Israel.”


text: Heb “said.”


text: Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”


text: Heb “don’t stop.”


label: NET textual note

text: The LXX reads “your God” rather than the MT’s “our God.”


text: After the negated jussive, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.


text: Heb “a lamb of milk”; NAB “an unweaned lamb”; NIV “a suckling lamb”; NCV “a baby lamb.”


text: Heb “approached for battle against Israel.”


text: Heb “before.”


text: Cf. NAB, NRSV, NLT “Jeshanah.”


text: Heb “hand.”


text: Heb “judged” (also in v. 17 ).


text: For location see Map4-G4 ; Map5-C1 ; Map6-E3 ; Map7-D1 ; Map8-G3 .


text: Or perhaps “settled disputes for” (cf. NLT “would hear cases there”; NRSV “administered justice there”).