translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZR

label: NET study note

text: Jozadak (also in 3:8 ) is a variant spelling of Jehozadak.


text: The name יְהוּדָה ( Yehudah ; cf. KJV, ASV, NASB “Judah”) is probably a variant of Hodaviah (see Ezra 2:40 ; cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).


text: This was a long, straight, metallic instrument used for signal calls, rather than the traditional ram’s horn (both instruments are typically translated “trumpet” by English versions).


text: See Ps 107:1; 118:1, 29; 136:1 . Cf. 2 Chr 5:13; 7:3; 20:21 .


text: The temple had been destroyed some fifty years earlier by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.