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 “and Jehoash did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord all his days.”


text: Heb “that which.” Jehoiada taught the king the Lord’s will.


text: The words “I place at your disposal” are added in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “the silver of passing over a man.” The precise meaning of the phrase is debated, but עָבַר (’ avar ), “pass over,” probably refers here to counting, suggesting the reference is to a census conducted for taxation purposes. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.


text: Heb “the silver of persons, his valuation.” The precise meaning of the phrase is uncertain, but parallels in suggest that personal vows are referred to here. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.


text: Heb “all the silver which goes up on the heart of a man to bring to the house of the Lord .”


text: Heb “Let the priests take for themselves, each from his treasurer, and let them repair the damage of the temple, with respect to all the damage that is found there.” The word מַכָּר ( makar ), translated here “treasurer,” occurs only in this passage. Some suggest it means “merchant” or “benefactor.” Its usage in Ugaritic texts, where it appears in a list of temple officials, suggests that it refers in this context to individuals who were in charge of disbursing temple funds.


text: Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”


text: Outside of this passage the verb אוּת (’ ut ) appears only in Gen 34:15-22 .


text: Heb “and not to repair the damages to the temple.” This does not mean that the priests were no longer interested in repairing the temple. As the following context makes clear, the priests decided to hire skilled workers to repair the damage to the temple, rather than trying to make the repairs themselves.


text: Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”


text: Heb “the king’s scribe.”


text: Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord .” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).


text: Heb “would give.”


text: Heb “doers of the work.”


text: Heb “and for all that which was going out concerning the house for repair.”


text: Heb “was given.”


text: Heb “gave.”


text: Heb “and they did not conduct a reckoning of the men who gave the silver into their hand to give to the doers of the work, for in honesty they were working.”


text: Heb “went up and fought against.”


text: Heb “Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.”


text: The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “went up.”


text: Heb “As for the rest of the events of Joash, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”


text: Heb “rose up and conspired [with] a conspiracy.”


text: Heb “Beth Millo which goes down [toward] Silla.”


text: Heb “struck him down and he died.”


text: Heb “they buried him.”