translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ZEC

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “who forms the spirit of man within him” (so NIV).


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


text: Heb “heavy stone” (so NRSV, TEV, NLT); KJV “burdensome stone”; NIV “an immovable rock.”


text: Heb “every horse.”


text: Or “peoples” (so NAB, NRSV).


text: Heb “a firepot” (so NASB, NIV); NRSV “a blazing pot”; NLT “a brazier.”


text: Heb “the tents” (so NAB, NRSV); NIV “the dwellings.”


text: Heb “house,” referring here to the dynastic line. Cf. NLT “the royal line”; CEV “the kingdom.” The same expression is translated “dynasty” in the following verse.


text: Or “peoples.”


text: Or “dynasty”; Heb “house.”


label: NET textual note

text: Because of the difficulty of the concept of the mortal piercing of God, the subject of this clause, and the shift of pronoun from “me” to “him” in the next, many mss read אַלֵי אֵת אֲשֶׁר (’ ale ’ et ’ asher , “to the one whom,” a reading followed by NAB, NRSV) rather than the MT’s אֵלַי אֵת אֲשֶׁר (’ ela ’ et ’ asher , “to me whom”). The reasons for such alternatives, however, are clear – they are motivated by scribes who found such statements theologically objectionable – and they should be rejected in favor of the more difficult reading ( lectio difficilior ) of the MT. tn Or “on me.”


text: The Hebrew term בְּכוֹר ( bÿkhor , “firstborn”), translated usually in the LXX by πρωτότοκος ( prwtotokos ), has unmistakable messianic overtones as the use of the Greek term in the NT to describe Jesus makes clear (cf. Col 1:15, 18 ). Thus, the idea of God being pierced sets the stage for the fatal wounding of Jesus, the Messiah and the Son of God (cf. John 19:37 ; Rev 1:7 ). Note that some English translations supply “son” from the context (e.g., NIV, TEV, NLT).


text: “Hadad-Rimmon” is a compound of the names of two Canaanite deities, the gods of storm and thunder respectively. The grammar (a subjective genitive) allows, and the problem of comparing Israel’s grief at God’s “wounding” with pagan mourning seems to demand, that this be viewed as a place name, perhaps where Judah lamented the death of good king Josiah (cf. 2 Chr 35:25 ). However, some translations render this as “for” (NRSV, NCV, TEV, CEV), suggesting a person, while others translate as “of” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT) which is ambiguous.


text: For location see Map1-D4 ; Map2-C1 ; Map4-C2 ; Map5-F2 ; Map7-B1 .