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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 “the name of his mother.”


text: Heb “in the eyes of.”


text: Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”


text: Or “served.”


text: Heb “In Jerusalem I will place my name.”


label: NET textual note

text: The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.


text: Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with conjurers.” The Hebrew אוֹב (’ ov ), “ritual pit,” refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַעֲלַת אוֹב ( ba ’ alat ’ ov ), “owner of a ritual pit.” See H. Hoffner, “Second millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’ OñBù ,” JBL 86 (1967), 385-401.


text: Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord , angering.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix (“him”) has been accidentally omitted in the MT by haplography (note the vav that immediately follows).


text: Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”


text: Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”


text: Heb “listen.”


text: Heb “spoke by the hand of.”


text: Heb “these horrible sins.”


text: Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”


text: For location see Map2-B1 ; Map4-D3 ; Map5-E2 ; Map6-A4 ; Map7-C1 .


text: Heb “I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab.” The measuring line and plumb line are normally used in building a structure, not tearing it down. But here they are used ironically as metaphors of judgment, emphasizing that he will give careful attention to the task of judgment.


text: Heb “just as one wipes a plate, wiping and turning [it] on its face.” The word picture emphasizes how thoroughly the Lord will judge the city.


text: Heb “the remnant of my inheritance.” In this context the Lord’s remnant is the tribe of Judah, which had been preserved when the Assyrians conquered and deported the northern tribes. See 17:18 and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 269.


text: Heb “they will become plunder and spoils of war for all their enemies.”


text: Heb “in my eyes.”


text: Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”


text: Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord .”


text: Heb “As for the rest of the events of Manasseh, and all which he did, and his sin which he committed, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”


text: Heb “lay down with his fathers.”


text: Heb “the name of his mother.”


text: Heb “in the eyes of.”


text: Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”


text: Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”


text: Heb “and did not walk in the way of the Lord .”


text: Heb “the people of the land.” The pronoun “they” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid the repetition of the phrase “the people of the land” from the beginning of the verse.


text: Heb “As for the rest of the things of Amon which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?” Many Hebrew mss have וְכָל ( vÿcol ), “and all,” before אֲשֶׁר (’ asher ). In this case we can translate, “As for the rest of the events of Amon’s reign, and all his accomplishments,….”


text: Heb “he buried him.” Here “he” probably refers to Amon’s son Josiah.