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 passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”


text: Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord , according to all which David his father had done.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Heb “in the eyes of.”


text: Heb “turned their faces.”


text: Heb “and turned the back.”


text: Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”


text: Heb “fell by the sword.”


text: Heb “are in captivity.”


text: Heb “now it is with my heart.”


text: Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav ( ו ) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention.


text: Heb “to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and sacrificers.”


text: Heb “and the Levites arose.”


text: Heb “words” (plural).


text: Heb “in the temple of the Lord .”


text: Heb “porch of the Lord .”


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


text: Heb “said.”


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


text: Or “seer.”


text: Heb “stood with” (i.e., stood holding).


text: Heb “with the words.”


text: Heb “filled your hand.”


text: Or “tokens of thanks.”


text: Heb “and all who were willing of heart.”


text: Heb “and the number of burnt sacrifices which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs; for a burnt sacrifice to the Lord were all these.”


text: The Hebrew term צֹאן ( ts ’ on ) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but there is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.


text: Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”


text: Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”


text: Or “established.”


text: Heb “prepared.”


text: Heb “the people.” The pronoun “they” has been used here for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.


text: Heb “for quickly was the matter.”