translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “do loyalty.”


text: Heb “did loyalty.”


text: Heb “to console him concerning his father.”


text: Heb “and the servants of David came to the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun to console him.”


text: Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”


label: NET textual note

text: Heb “Is it not to explore and to overturn and to spy out the land (that) his servants have come to you?” The Hebrew term לַהֲפֹךְ ( lahafakh , “to overturn”) seems misplaced in the sequence. Some emend the form to לַחְפֹּר ( lakhpor , “to spy out”). The sequence of three infinitives may be a conflation of alternative readings.


text: Heb “shaved them.” See v. 5 .


text: Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto the buttocks.”


text: Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.


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


text: Heb “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”


text: The Hebrew word כִּכַּר ( kikar , “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the Ammonites hired chariots and charioteers for about 33.7 tons (30,600 kg) of silver.


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:6 has “Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah.”


text: The words “the news” and “to meet them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarification.


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:10 has “the Ammonites” in place of “the Arameans” here. tn Heb “and Joab saw that the face of the battle was to him before and behind and he chose from all the best in Israel and arranged to meet Aram.”


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


text: Heb “if Aram is stronger than me.”


text: Heb “if the sons of Ammon are stronger than you.”


text: Heb “and the Lord , what is good in his eyes, he will do.”


text: Heb “and the army which was with him.”


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


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


text: Heb “the River,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “and Aram saw that they were struck down before Israel and they sent messengers and brought out Aram which is beyond the River, and Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer [was] before them.”


text: The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:17 “he came to Helam.” tn Heb “and he came to them and was deployed against them.”


text: Heb “and David was deployed to meet Aram [for] battle and they fought with him.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has “seven hundred.”


text: The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:18 has the variant spelling “Shobach.”