translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: DEU

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “horse and chariot.”


text: Heb “people.”


text: Heb “and he will say to the people.” Cf. NIV, NCV, CEV “the army”; NRSV, NLT “the troops.”


text: Or “to save you” (so KJV, NASB, NCV); or “to deliver you.”


text: Heb “people” (also in vv. 8, 9 ).


text: Heb “Who [is] the man” (also in vv. 6, 7, 8 ).


text: The Hebrew term חָנַךְ ( khanakh ) occurs elsewhere only with respect to the dedication of Solomon’s temple ( 1 Kgs 8:63 = 2 Chr 7:5 ). There it has a religious connotation which, indeed, may be the case here as well. The noun form ( חָנֻכָּה , khanukah ) is associated with the consecration of the great temple altar ( 2 Chr 7:9 ) and of the postexilic wall of Jerusalem ( Neh 12:27 ). In Maccabean times the festival of Hanukkah was introduced to celebrate the rededication of the temple following its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (1 Macc 4:36-61).


text: Heb “another man.”


text: Heb “Who [is] the man.”


text: Heb “his brother’s.”


text: Heb “melted.”


text: The Hebrew text includes “to the people,” but this phrase has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “princes of hosts.”


text: Heb “if it answers you peace.”


text: Heb “become as a vassal and will serve you.” The Hebrew term translated slaves ( מַס , mas ) refers either to Israelites who were pressed into civil service, especially under Solomon (1 Kgs 5:27; 9:15, 21; 12:18), or (as here) to foreigners forced as prisoners of war to become slaves to Israel. The Gibeonites exemplify this type of servitude ( Josh 9:3-27 ; cf. Josh 16:10; 17:13 ; Judg 1:28, 30-35 ; Isa 31:8 ; Lam 1:1 ).


text: Heb “to your hands.”


text: The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”


text: Heb “any breath.”


text: The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “utterly.” Cf. CEV “completely wipe out.” sn The Hebrew verb refers to placing persons or things so evil and/or impure as to be irredeemable under God’s judgment, usually to the extent of their complete destruction. See also the note on the phrase “the divine judgment” in Deut 2:34 .


label: NET textual note

text: The LXX adds “Girgashites” here at the end of the list in order to list the full (and usual) complement of seven (see note on “seven” in Deut 7:1 ). sn Jebusite . These people inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29 ; Josh 15:8 ; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16 ).


text: Heb “to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods.”


text: Heb “to fight against it to capture it.”


text: Heb “you must not destroy its trees by chopping them with an iron” (i.e., an ax).


text: Heb “you may eat from them.” The direct object is not expressed; the word “fruit” is supplied in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “to go before you in siege.”


text: Heb “however, a tree which you know is not a tree for food you may destroy and cut down.”


text: Heb “[an] enclosure.” The term מָצוֹר ( matsor ) may refer to encircling ditches or to surrounding stagings. See R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel , 238.