translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Or “the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם ( shamayim ) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.


text: The word “saying” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “and the priests were standing at their posts, and the Levites with the instruments of music of the Lord .”


text: Heb “which David the king made to give thanks to the Lord , for lasting is his loyal love, when David praised by them.”


text: Heb “opposite them”; the referent (the Levites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


label: NET textual note

text: The Hebrew text omits reference to the grain offerings at this point, but note that they are included both in the list in the second half of the verse (see note on “offerings” at the end of this verse) and in the parallel account in 1 Kgs 8:64 . The construction וְאֶת־הַמִּנְחָה ( vÿ ’ et-hamminkhah ; vav [ ו ] + accusative sign + noun with article; “grain offerings”) was probably omitted accidentally by homoioarcton. Note the וְאֶת ( vÿ ’ et ) that immediately follows.


text: Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.” Because this is redundant, the translation employs a summary phrase: “all these offerings.”


text: Heb “Solomon held the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel was with him, a very great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the wadi of Egypt.”


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


text: The words “they left” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “good of heart.”


text: Heb “and all that entered the heart of Solomon to do in the house of the Lord and in his house he successfully accomplished.”


text: Heb “I have heard.”


text: Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the Lord designated the temple as the place for making sacrifices, and this has been clarified in the translation.


text: Or “if.”


text: Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם ( shamayim ) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.


text: Heb “the land,” which stands here by metonymy for the vegetation growing in it.


text: Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28 .


text: Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.


text: Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”


text: Heb “hear.”


text: Heb “my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place.” Note Solomon’s request in 6:40 .


text: Heb “for my name to be there perpetually [or perhaps, “forever”].”


text: Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”


text: Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.” sn Verse 17 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 18 .


text: Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”


text: Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”


text: The Hebrew pronoun is plural, suggesting that Solomon and all Israel (or perhaps Solomon and his successors) are in view. To convey this to the English reader, the translation “you people” has been employed.


text: Heb “which I placed before you.”


text: Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”


text: Heb “them.” The switch from the second to the third person pronoun is rhetorically effective, for it mirrors God’s rejection of his people – he has stopped addressing them as “you” and begun addressing them as “them.” However, the switch is awkward and confusing in English, so the translation maintains the direct address style.


text: Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.


text: Instead of “I will throw away,” the parallel text in 1 Kgs 9:7 has “I will send away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error. tn Heb “and this temple which I consecrated for my name I will throw away from before my face.”


text: Heb “him,” which appears in context to refer to Israel (i.e., “you” in direct address). Many translations understand the direct object of the verb “make” to be the temple (NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “it”).


text: Heb “and I will make him [i.e., Israel] a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.


text: Heb “and this house which was high/elevated.” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”


text: Heb “and they will say.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”