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 “in the eyes of.”


text: Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”


text: The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם ( khol tsÿva ’ hashamayim ), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.


text: Or “served.”


text: Heb “In Jerusalem my name will be permanently.”


text: Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.


text: Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ ov , “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב ( ba ’ alat ’ ov , “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’ OñBù ,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.


text: Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord , angering him.”


text: Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name permanently” (or perhaps “forever”).


text: Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I established for their fathers.”


text: Heb “misled Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.


text: Heb “spoke to.”


text: Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”


text: Or “distress.”


text: Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “appeased the face of the Lord his God.”


text: Or “greatly.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Heb “him”; the referent (the Lord ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”


text: Heb “heard.”


text: Heb “told Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.


text: Or “seers.”


text: Heb “look, they are.”


text: Heb “and his prayer and being entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness and the places where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – behold, they are written on the words of his seers.”


text: Heb “lay down with his fathers.”


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


text: Heb “in the eyes of.”


text: Or “served.”


text: Heb “as Manasseh his father had humbled himself.”


text: Heb “for he, Amon, multiplied guilt.”


text: Heb “and the people of the land.”