translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “and he said to break into them for himself.”


text: Heb “and his face was for war against Jerusalem.” map For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Heb “the waters of the springs.”


text: Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’ arets , “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.


text: Heb “land, saying.”


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


text: Heb “strengthened himself and built.”


text: Heb “and outside the wall another one.”


text: Heb “and he placed officers of war over the people.”


text: Heb “he spoke to their heart[s].”


text: Or perhaps, “and don’t be discouraged.”


text: Heb “for with us [is] a greater [one] than with him.”


text: Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”


text: Or “people.”


text: Heb “servants.”


text: Heb “all Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.


text: Heb “On what are you trusting that [you] are living during the siege in Jerusalem.”


text: Heb “hand.”


text: Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’


text: Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.


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


text: Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 14, 15 ), but in this context the term does not necessarily refer to Sennacherib’s ancestors, but to his predecessors on the Assyrian throne.


text: Heb “how much less.”


text: The verb is plural, suggesting that the preceding אֱלֹהֵיכֶם (’ elohekhem ) be translated “your gods,” rather than “your God.”


text: Heb “his”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “spoke against.”


text: Heb “and speaking against him, saying.”


text: Heb “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”


text: Or “an angel.”


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


text: Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”


text: Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”


text: Heb “and from the hand of all.”


label: NET textual note

text: The Hebrew text reads literally, “and he led him from all around.” However, the present translation assumes an emendation to וַיָּנַח לָהֶם מִסָּבִיב ( vayyanakh lahem missaviv , “and he gave rest to them from all around”). See 2 Chr 15:15 and 20:30 .


text: Or perhaps, “offerings.”


text: Heb “lifted up in the eyes of.”


text: Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”


text: Heb “and he spoke to him and a sign he gave to him.”


text: Heb “but not according to the benefit [given] to him did Hezekiah repay, for his heart was high, and there was anger against him and against Judah and Jerusalem.” map For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Heb “and Hezekiah humbled himself in the height of his heart, he and the residents of Jerusalem, and the anger of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.”


text: Heb “and stalls for all beasts and beasts, and flocks for the stalls.” The repetition of בְהֵמָה ( bÿhemah , “beast”) here indicates various kinds of livestock.


text: Heb “and cities he made for himself.”


text: Heb “and when the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire concerning the sign which was in the land, [arrived].”


text: Heb “to know all [that was] in his heart.”


text: Heb “and the rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and his faithful acts, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.”


text: Heb “lay down with his fathers.”


text: Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”