translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ZEC

label: NET translator note

text: For location see Map4-G4 ; Map5-C1 ; Map6-E3 ; Map7-D1 ; Map8-G3 .


text: Heb “house” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).


text: The seventh month apparently refers to the anniversary of the assassination of Gedaliah, governor of Judah ( Jer 40:13-14; 41:1 ), in approximately 581 b.c .


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


text: The Hebrew term שָׁמִיר ( shamir ) means literally “hardness” and since it is said in Ezek 3:9 to be harder than flint, many scholars suggest that it refers to diamond. It is unlikely that diamond was known to ancient Israel, however, so probably a hard stone like emery or corundum is in view. The translation nevertheless uses “diamond” because in modern times it has become proverbial for its hardness. A number of English versions use “flint” here (e.g., NASB, NIV).


text: Heb “he.” Since the third person pronoun refers to the Lord , it has been translated as a first person pronoun (“I”) to accommodate English style, which typically does not exhibit switches between persons of pronouns in the same immediate context as Hebrew does.


text: Or “desirable”; traditionally “pleasant” (so many English versions; cf. TEV “This good land”).