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: Or “a fine.”


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 weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).


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


text: Heb “in the eyes of.”


text: Heb “came up against him.”


text: Heb “to carry him away.”


text: Or “temple.”


text: Heb “in Babylon.” Repeating the proper name “Babylon” here would be redundant in contemporary English, so “there” has been used in the translation.


text: Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and his horrible deeds which he did and that which was found against him, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”


label: NET textual note

text: The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8 , have “eighteen.”


text: Heb “sent and brought him.”


text: Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17 , Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).


text: Or “made him swear an oath.”


text: Heb “and he stiffened his neck and strengthened his heart from returning.”


text: Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”


text: Heb “fathers.”


text: Heb “and the Lord God of their fathers sent against them by the hand of his messengers, getting up early and sending.”


text: Heb “his words.”


text: All three verbal forms (“mocked,” “despised,” and “ridiculed”) are active participles in the Hebrew text, indicating continual or repeated action. They made a habit of rejecting God’s prophetic messengers.


text: Heb “until the anger of the Lord went up against his people until there was no healer.”


text: Heb “killed with the sword.”


text: Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”


text: Or “show compassion to.”


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


text: Heb “to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”


text: Or “accepted.”


text: Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.” sn Cyrus’ edict (see vv. 22-23 ) occurred about fifty years after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 b.c. , which is most naturally understood as the beginning point of the “days of desolation” mentioned in v. 21 . The number “seventy” is probably used in a metaphorical sense, indicating a typical lifetime and suggesting a thorough or complete judgment that would not be lifted until an entirely new generation emerged.


text: The words “the reign of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “to complete the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.” sn Regarding the promise he delivered through Jeremiah see Jer 29:10 .


text: Heb “stirred the spirit of.”