translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the Lord and house for his kingship.”


text: Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).


text: Heb “carriers of loads.”


text: Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).


label: NET textual note

text: The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek mss there read “thirty-six hundred” in agreement with 2 Chr 2:2, 18 . tn Heb “and 3,600 supervisors over them.”


text: Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew mss , along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1 . “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.


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


text: The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”


text: Heb “for the name of.”


text: Heb “and the regular display.”


text: Heb “permanently [is] this upon Israel.”


text: Or “heavens” (also in v. 12 ). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם ( shamayim ) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.


text: Heb “Who retains strength to build for him a house, for the heavens and the heavens of heavens do not contain him? And who am I that I should build for him a house, except to sacrifice before him?”


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


text: This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12 ; cf. NLT. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.


text: Heb “know.”


text: Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).


text: Heb “Huram” (also in v. 12 ). Some medieval Hebrew mss , along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1 . “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.


text: Heb “who has given to David a wise son [who] knows discernment and insight, who will build a house for the Lord and house for his kingship.”


text: Heb “a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre.”


text: Heb “and we will cut down trees from Lebanon according to all your need.”


text: Heb “to you,” but this phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons – it is somewhat redundant.


text: Or “on rafts.” See the note at 1 Kgs 5:9 .


text: Heb “counted.”


text: Heb “made.”


text: Heb “carriers of loads.”


text: Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).


text: Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”