translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “he summoned the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men, accomplished in war.”


text: Heb “and the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying.”


text: Heb “for his thing is from me.”


text: Heb “and they heard the words of the Lord and returned from going against Jeroboam.”


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


text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-E2 ; Map10-B4 .


text: Heb “he strengthened them greatly, very much.”


text: Heb “and the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel supported him from all their territory.”


text: Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “for the high places.”


text: Heb “and for the goats and for the calves he had made.”


text: Heb “and after them from all the tribes of Israel, the ones giving their heart[s] to seek the Lord God of Israel came [to] Jerusalem.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Or “strengthened.”


text: Heb “they walked in the way of.”


text: Heb “took for himself a wife.”


text: The words “and of” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “and Rehoboam appointed for a head Abijah son of Maacah for ruler among his brothers, indeed to make him king.”


text: Heb “and he was discerning and broke up from all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities.”


text: “and he asked for a multitude of wives.”