{"id":3687,"verse_id":"ISA.34.5","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"ISA","chapter":34,"verse":5,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"2","reference":"34.5","text":"has תראה (“[my sword] appeared [in the heavens]”), but this is apparently an attempt to make sense out of a difficult metaphor. Cf. NIV “My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens.” In v. 4 the “host of the heaven” refers to the heavenly luminaries (stars and planets, see, among others, Deut 4:19; 17:3 ; 2 Kgs 17:16; 21:3, 5; 23:4-5 ; 2 Chr 33:3, 5 ) that populate the divine/heavenly assembly in mythological and prescientific Israelite thought (see Job 38:7 ; Isa 14:13 ). As in 24:21 , they are viewed here as opposing God and being defeated in battle.","source_note_position":2,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Isaiah%2034%3A5/2"} {"id":3688,"verse_id":"ISA.34.5","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"ISA","chapter":34,"verse":5,"note_index":2,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"3","reference":"34.5","text":"Edom is mentioned here as epitomizing the hostile nations that oppose God.","source_note_position":3,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Isaiah%2034%3A5/3"} {"id":3689,"verse_id":"ISA.34.6","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"ISA","chapter":34,"verse":6,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"5","reference":"34.6","text":"The Lord’s judgment of Edom is compared to a bloody sacrificial scene.","source_note_position":5,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Isaiah%2034%3A6/5"} {"id":3690,"verse_id":"ISA.34.11","translation_id":"net-engnet","book_id":"ISA","chapter":34,"verse":11,"note_index":1,"note_type":"study_note","label":"NET study note","caller":"6","reference":"34.11","text":"The metaphor in v. 11 b emphasizes that God has carefully planned Edom’s demise.","source_note_position":6,"source_url":"https://netbible.org/resource/netNote/Isaiah%2034%3A11/6"}