translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JDG

label: NET study note

text: The name Habboth Jair means “tent villages of Jair” in Hebrew.


text: The Ashtars were local manifestations of the goddess Ashtar (i.e., Astarte).


text: You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today . The request seems contradictory, but it can be explained in one of two ways. They may be asking for relief from their enemies and direct discipline from God’s hand. Or they may mean, “In the future you can do whatever you like to us, but give us relief from what we’re suffering right now.”