translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “look we are your bone and your flesh.”


text: Heb “you were the one leading out and the one leading in Israel.”


text: Heb “elders.”


text: Heb “and the king, David, cut for them a covenant.”


text: Heb “anointed.”


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


text: The Hebrew text has “he” rather than “the Jebusites.” The referent has been specified in the translation for clarity. In the Syriac Peshitta and some mss of the Targum the verb is plural rather than singular.


text: has the Qal perfect 3rd person feminine singular שָׂנְאָה ( sanÿ ’ ah , “hated”), the subject of which would be “the soul of David.” The difference is minor and the translation adopted above works for either the Kethib or the Qere .


text: The meaning of the Hebrew term has been debated. For a survey of various views, see P. K. McCarter, II Samuel (AB), 139-40. sn If a water tunnel is in view here, it is probably the so-called Warren’s Shaft that extends up from Hezekiah’s tunnel. It would have provided a means for surprise attack against the occupants of the city of David. The LXX seems not to understand the reference here, translating “by the water shaft” as “with a small knife.”


text: Heb “the house.” TEV takes this as a reference to the temple (“the Lord’s house”).


text: and the LXX lack the word “God,” probably due to harmonization with the more common biblical phrase “the Lord of hosts.”


text: Traditionally, “the Lord God of hosts” (KJV, NASB); NIV, NLT “the Lord God Almighty”; CEV “the Lord (+ God NCV) All-Powerful.”


text: The translation assumes that the disjunctive clause is circumstantial-causal, giving the reason for David’s success.


text: For location see Map1-A2 ; Map2-G2 ; Map4-A1 ; JP3-F3 ; JP4-F3 .


text: Heb “a house.”


text: Heb “all the Philistines.”


text: The infinitive absolute lends emphasis to the following verb.


text: The name means “Lord of the outbursts.”


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


label: NET textual note

text: For “idols” the LXX and Vulgate have “gods.”


text: The words “what to do” are not in the Hebrew text.


text: The words “this time” are not in the Hebrew text.


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


text: Some translate as “balsam trees” (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, NJB, NLT); cf. KJV, NKJV, ASV “mulberry trees”; NAB “mastic trees”; NEB, REB “aspens.” The exact identification of the type of tree or plant is uncertain.


text: Heb “camp” (so NAB).


text: Heb “from Gibeon until you enter Gezer.”