translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “also I have rejected you into the hand of Shishak.”


text: Or “fair,” meaning the Lord ’s punishment of them was just or fair.


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


text: Heb “and I will give to them soon deliverance.”


text: Heb “so they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.”


text: Heb “runners” (also in v. 11 ).


text: Heb “to the chamber of the runners.”


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


text: Heb “the anger of the Lord turned from him and did not destroy completely.”


text: Heb “and also in Judah there were good things.”


text: Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”


text: Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.


text: Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”


text: Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord .”


text: Heb “As for the events of Rehoboam, the former and the latter, are they not written?”


text: Heb “lay down with his fathers.”