translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: Beginning with 14:1 , the verse numbers through 14:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text ( BHS ), with 14:1 ET = 13:23 HT, 14:2 ET = 14:1 HT, 14:3 ET = 14:2 HT, etc., through 14:15 ET = 14:14 HT. Beginning with 15:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.


text: The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7 .


text: Asherah poles . A leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon was Asherah, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles (Hebrew אֲשֵׁרִים [’ asherim ], as here). They were to be burned or cut down ( Deut 7:5; 12:3; 16:21 ; Judg 6:25, 28, 30 ; 2 Kgs 18:4 ).