translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZR

label: NET translator note

text: Aram “son.” According to Zech 1:1 he was actually the grandson of Iddo.


text: Aram “and Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo the prophet.”


text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Aram “arose and began.” For stylistic reasons this has been translated as a single concept.


text: Aram “who placed to you a command?” So also v. 9 .


text: The exact meaning of the Aramaic word אֻשַּׁרְנָא (’ ussarna ’) here and in v. 9 is uncertain (BDB 1083 s.v.). The LXX and Vulgate understand it to mean “wall.” Here it is used in collocation with בַּיְתָא ( bayta ’, “house” as the temple of God), while in 5:3, 9 it is used in parallelism with this term. It might be related to the Assyrian noun ashurru (“wall”) or ashru (“sanctuary”; so BDB). F. Rosenthal, who translates the word “furnishings,” thinks that it probably enters Aramaic from Persian ( Grammar , 62-63, §189).


label: NET textual note

text: The translation reads with one medieval Hebrew MS , the LXX, and the Syriac Peshitta אֲמַרוּ (’ amaru , “they said”) rather than the reading אֲמַרְנָא (’ amarna ’, “we said”) of the MT.


text: Aram “the eye of their God was on.” The idiom describes the attentive care that one exercises in behalf of the object of his concern.


text: Aram “they did not stop them.”


text: Aram “[could] go.” On this form see F. Rosenthal, Grammar , 58, §169.


text: Aram “and it was written in its midst.”


text: Aram “all peace.”


text: Aram “stones of rolling.” The reference is apparently to stones too large to carry.


text: Aram “fathers.”


text: Aram “hand” (singular).


text: Or “temple.”


text: Aram “they were given.”


text: Aram “upon its place.”


text: Aram “from then and until now.”


text: Aram “if upon the king it is good.”


text: Aram “the house of the treasures of the king.”