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: Or “seer.”


text: Heb “went out to his face.”


text: Heb “and love those who hate the Lord ?”


text: Heb “and because of this upon you is anger from before the Lord .”


text: Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”


text: Here בָּעַר ( ba ’ ar ) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער .


text: Heb “and you set your heart to seek the Lord .”


text: Heb “and turned them back to.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Heb “in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.”


text: Heb “see what you are doing.”


text: Heb “and now let the terror of the Lord be upon you, be careful and act for there is not with the Lord our God injustice, lifting up of a face, and taking a bribe.”


text: Heb “for the judgment of the Lord .”


label: NET textual note

text: Heb “and to conduct a case [or “for controversy”], and they returned [to] Jerusalem.” Some emend וַיָּשֻׁבוּ ( vayyashuvu , “and they returned”) to וַיֵּשְׁבוּ ( vayyeshÿvu , “and they lived [in]”). The present translation assumes an emendation to יֹשְׁבֵי ( yoshÿvey , “residents of”).


text: Heb “This you must do with the fear of the Lord , with honesty, and with a complete heart.”


text: Heb “and every case which comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities.”


text: Heb “between blood pertaining to blood.”


text: Heb “and anger will be upon you and your brothers; do this and you will not be guilty.”


text: Heb “and look, Amariah the chief priest is over you with respect to every matter of the Lord , and Zebadiah…with respect to every matter of the king.”


text: Heb “Be strong and act!”