translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

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


text: The parallel text in 1 Kgs 15:1 identifies his mother as “Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom” [=Absalom, 2 Chr 11:20 ). Although most English versions identify the mother’s father as Uriel of Gibeah, a number of English versions substitute the name “Maacah” here for the mother (e.g., NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT).


text: Heb “and Abijah bound [i.e., began] the battle with a force of warriors, four hundred thousand chosen men.”


text: Heb “and Jeroboam arranged with him [for] battle with eight hundred thousand chosen men, strong warrior[s].”


text: Heb “Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel has given kingship to David over Israel permanently, to him and to his sons [by] a covenant of salt?” sn For other references to a “covenant of salt,” see Lev 2:13 and Num 18:19 .


text: Heb “empty men, sons of wickedness.”


text: Heb “strengthened themselves.”


text: Heb “a young man and tender of heart.”


text: Heb “the kingdom of the Lord by the hand of the sons of David.”


text: Or “horde”; or “multitude.”


text: In the Hebrew text this is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Did you not banish?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you did,” the force of which is reflected in the translation “But you banished.”


text: Heb “whoever comes to fill his hand with a bull of a son of cattle, and seven rams, and he is a priest to no-gods.”


text: Heb “and priests serving the Lord [are] the sons of Aaron and the Levites in the work.”


text: Or “for.”


text: Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”


text: Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18 ).


text: Heb “and Jeroboam had caused to circle around an ambush to come from behind them.”


text: Heb “Judah.”


text: Heb “and Judah turned, and, look, to them [was] the battle in front and behind.”


text: Heb “them”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “struck them down with a great striking down.”


text: Heb “and [the] slain from Israel fell, five hundred thousand chosen men.”


text: Heb “at that time.”


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


text: Heb “and the strength of Jeroboam was not retained again in the days of Abijah.”


text: Heb “lifted up for himself.”


text: Heb “and his ways and his words.”