translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

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


text: Heb “for the name of the Lord. ” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “to honor the Lord” ). The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name.


text: Heb “Solomon loved the Lord by walking in.”


text: Or “policies, rules.”


text: Heb “for it was the great high place.”


text: The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107. b .


text: Or “revealed himself.”


text: Heb “ask.”


text: Heb “did.”


text: Heb “walked before.”


text: Heb “in faithfulness and in innocence and in uprightness of heart with you.”


text: Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”


text: Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”


text: There is no verb expressed in the Hebrew text; “stands” is supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “your people whom you have chosen.”


text: Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)


text: Heb “to judge.”


text: Heb “to understand between good and evil.”


text: Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.


text: Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”


text: Heb “your numerous people.”


text: The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here and in v.15 is אֲדֹנָי (’ adonay ).


text: Heb “And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, for Solomon asked for this thing.”


text: Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”


text: This statement is introduced in the Hebrew text by the particle הִנֵּה ( hinneh , “look”) which draws attention to and emphasizes what follows.


text: Heb “I am doing according to your words.” The perfect tense is sometimes used of actions occurring at the same time a statement is made.


text: This statement is introduced by the particle הִנֵּה ( hinneh , “look”) which draws attention to and emphasizes what follows. The translation assumes that the perfect tense here indicates that the action occurs as the statement is made (i.e., “right now I give you”).


text: Heb “heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)


text: Heb “so that there has not been one like you prior to you, and after you one will not arise like you.”


text: The translation assumes that the perfect tense here indicates that the action occurs as the statement is made.


text: Heb “so that there is not one among the kings like you all your days.” The LXX lacks the words “all your days.”


text: Heb “walk in my ways.”


text: Or “keeping.”


text: Heb “walked.”


text: Heb “I will lengthen your days.”


text: Heb “and look, a dream.”


text: Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”


text: Heb “died.”


text: Heb “lay, slept.”


text: Heb “look.”


text: Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”


text: Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”


text: Heb “the woman whose son was alive.”


text: Heb “for her compassions grew warm for her son.”


text: The infinitive absolute before the negated jussive emphasizes the main verb.


text: Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”


text: Heb “saw.”


text: Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”