translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: MIC

label: NET study note

text: The mountains will disintegrate…the valleys will be split in two . This imagery pictures an earthquake and accompanying landslide.


text: The place name Shaphir means “pleasant” in Hebrew.


text: The place name Beth Ezel means “house of nearness” or “house of proximity” in Hebrew.


text: The place name Maroth sounds like the Hebrew word for “bitter.”


text: The place name Lachish sounds like the Hebrew word for “team [of horses].”


text: The epithet Daughter Zion pictures the city of Jerusalem as a young lady.


text: The place name Achzib ( אַכְזִיב , ’ akhziv , “place on the dried up river”; see HALOT 45 s.v. אַכְזָב ) creates a word play on the similar sounding term כָּזָב ( kazav , “lie, deception”; HALOT 468 s.v. כָּזָב ). Like the dried up river upon which its name was based, the city of Achzib would fail to help the kings of Israel in their time of need.


text: Because of the enemy invasion, Achzib would not be able to deliver soldiers for the army and/or services normally rendered to the crown.


text: The place name Mareshah sounds like the Hebrew word for “conqueror.”