translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “went out before.”


text: Heb “when you are with him.”


text: Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”


text: Heb “Many days.”


text: Heb “and he allowed himself to be found by them.”


text: Heb “times.”


text: Heb “there was peace for the one going out or the one coming in.”


text: Heb “for great confusion was upon all the inhabitants of the lands.”


text: Heb “threw them into confusion with all distress.”


text: Heb “and let not your hands drop.”


text: Heb “for there is payment for your work.”


text: Heb “strengthened himself.”


text: Heb “the porch of the Lord .”


text: Or “resident aliens.”


text: Heb “had fallen upon him.”


text: Or “In that day.”


text: The Hebrew term צֹאן ( tso ’ n ) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.


text: Heb “entered into a covenant.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Heb “whether small or great.”


text: Heb “with a loud voice and with a shout and with trumpets and with horns.”


text: Heb “and with all their desire they sought him and he allowed himself to be found by them.”


text: Heb “and the Lord gave them rest all around.”


text: Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors.


text: The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה ( gÿvirah ) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah.


text: Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete all his days.”


text: Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.”