translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: Lair is a city located in northeastern Babylon. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 235.


text: This refers to the cherub images that were above the ark of the covenant.


text: Zion (Jerusalem) is pictured here as a young, vulnerable daughter whose purity is being threatened by the would-be Assyrian rapist. The personification hints at the reality which the young girls of the city would face if the Assyrians conquer it.


text: Shaking the head was a mocking gesture of derision.


text: This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.


text: The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.


text: This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.


text: The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.


text: No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.


text: Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.