translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Or “against.”


text: The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3 . sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.


text: Heb “the people of the land.”


text: Heb “the city was breached.”


text: The Hebrew text is abrupt here: “And all the men of war by the night.” The translation attempts to capture the sense.


text: For location see Map5-B2 ; Map6-E1 ; Map7-E1 ; Map8-E3 ; Map10-A2 ; Map11-A1 .


text: The Hebrew text has the plural form of the verb, but the parallel passage in Jer 52:9 has the singular.


text: Heb “were killed before his eyes.”


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


text: The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”


text: For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1 .


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 every large house he burned down with fire.”


label: NET textual note

text: The MT has “the multitude.” But הֶהָמוֹן ( hehamon ) should probably be emended to הֶאָמוֹן ( he ’ amon ).


text: Heb “the captain of the royal guard.” However, the subject is clear from the preceding and contemporary English style would normally avoid repeating the proper name and title.


text: Heb “with which they served [or, ‘fulfilled their duty’].”


text: The MT lacks “the twelve bronze bulls under ‘the Sea,’” but these words have probably been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. The scribe’s eye may have jumped from the וְהָ ( vÿha -) on וְהַבָּקָר ( vÿhabbaqar ), “and the bulls,” to the וְהָ on וְהַמְּכֹנוֹת ( vÿhammÿkhonot ), “and the movable stands,” causing him to leave out the intervening words. See the parallel passage in Jer 52:20 .


text: Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.


text: Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”


text: The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”


text: Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”


text: Heb “the people of the land.”


text: Heb “struck them down and killed them.”


text: Heb “land.”


text: Heb “And the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left, he appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.”


text: Heb “of the army.” The word “Judahite” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.


text: The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “[was] from the seed of the kingdom.”


text: Heb “and they struck down Gedaliah and he died.”


text: Heb “arose and went to.”


text: Heb “lifted up the head of.”


text: The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31 .


text: Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”


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


text: The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34 . Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav ( ו ) on בְּיוֹמוֹ ( bÿyomo ), “in his day,” to the final vav ( ו ) on מוֹתוֹ ( moto ), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.