translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: For location see Map2-B1 ; Map4-D3 ; Map5-E2 ; Map6-A4 ; Map7-C1 .


text: Heb “in the eyes of.”


text: Heb “walked after.”


text: Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”


text: Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against.”


text: Heb “he gave them into the hand of.”


text: Heb “all the days.”


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


text: Heb “and the Lord heard.”


text: Heb “for he saw the oppression of Israel, for the king of Syria oppressed them.”


text: Heb “and they went from under the hand of Syria.”


text: Heb “and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as before.”


text: Heb “they did not turn away from.”


text: Heb “house.”


label: NET textual note

text: Heb “in it he walked.” The singular verb ( הָלַךְ , halakh ) is probably due to an error of haplography and should be emended to the plural ( הָלְכּוּ , halÿku ). Note that a vav immediately follows (on the form וְגַם , vÿgam ).


text: Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.” sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down ( Deut 12:3; 16:21 ; Judg 6:25, 28, 30 ; 2 Kgs 18:4 ).


text: Heb “Indeed he did not leave to Jehoahaz people.” The identity of the subject is uncertain, but the king of Syria, mentioned later in the verse, is a likely candidate.


text: Heb “them,” i.e., the remainder of this troops.


text: Heb “and made them like dust for trampling.”


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


text: Heb “lay down with his fathers.”


text: Heb “and they buried him.”


text: Heb “in the eyes of.”


text: Heb “turn away from all.”


text: Heb “in it he walked.”


text: Heb “As for the rest of the events of Joash, and all which he did and his strength, [and] how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”


text: Heb “sat on his throne.”


text: Heb “Now Elisha was ill with the illness by which he would die.”


text: Heb “went down to him.”


text: Though the noun is singular here, it may be collective, in which case it could be translated “chariots.”


text: Heb “and he took a bow and some arrows.”


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


text: Heb “Cause your hand to ride on the bow.”


text: Heb “and he caused his hand to ride.”


text: Heb “He opened [it].”


text: Heb “and he shot.”


text: Heb “The arrow of victory of the Lord and the arrow of victory over Syria.”


text: Heb “you will strike down Syria in Aphek until destruction.”


text: Heb “and he took [them].”


text: Heb “man of God.”


text: Heb “[It was necessary] to strike five or six times, then you would strike down Syria until destruction.” On the syntax of the infinitive construct, see GKC 349 §114. k .


text: Heb “and they buried him.”


text: Heb “entered.”


text: The MT reading בָּא שָׁנָה ( ba ’ shanah ), “it came, year,” should probably be emended to בְּבָּא הַשָּׁנָה ( bÿba ’ hashanah ), “at the coming [i.e., ‘beginning’] of the year.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 148.


text: Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”


text: Heb “and look, they saw.”


text: Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “the man.”


text: Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.


text: Heb “all the days of Jehoahaz.”


text: Or “showed them compassion.”


text: Heb “he turned to them.”


text: Heb “because of his covenant with.”


text: Heb “until now.”


text: Heb “from the hand of.”