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: Heb “and Joash did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord .”


text: Heb “all the days of.”


text: Heb “and it was, later, there was with the heart of Joash to repair the house of the Lord .”


text: Heb “Jehoiada the head”; the word “priest” not in the Hebrew text but is implied.


text: Heb “sought.”


text: Heb “bring.”


text: Heb “the tent of testimony.”


text: Heb “and the king said [it] and they made a chest and placed it in the gate of the house of the Lord outside.”


text: Heb “and they gave voice in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord the tax of Moses the servant of God upon Israel in the wilderness.”


text: Heb “doers of the work.”


text: Heb “and the doers of the work worked, and the repairs went up for the work by their hand.”


text: Heb “and they caused the house of God to stand according to its measurements and they strengthened it.”


text: Heb “came and bowed down to the king.”


text: Heb “to them.”


text: Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24 ).


text: Heb “served.”


text: Heb “and he sent among them prophets to bring them back to the Lord .”


text: Heb “testified among.”


text: Heb “clothed.”


text: Heb “did not remember.”


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


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


text: Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.


text: Heb “turning.”


text: Heb “went up against.”


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


text: Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”


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


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


text: Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”


text: Heb “because of the shed blood of.”


label: NET textual note

text: The MT has the plural בְּנֵי ( bÿney , “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.


text: Heb “and he died.”


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


text: Heb “And his sons and the abundance of the oracle[s] against him, and the founding of the house of God, look are they not written on the writing of the scroll of the kings?”