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: Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”


label: NET textual note

text: Heb “forty-two,” but the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 8:26 reads “twenty-two” along with some mss of the LXX and the Syriac.


text: The Hebrew term בַּת ( bat , “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.


text: Heb “and also he walked in the ways of the house of Ahab.”


text: Heb “for his mother was his adviser to do evil.”


text: Heb “in the eyes of.”


text: That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.


text: Heb “Aram” (also in v. 6 ).


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


text: Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”


text: Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss , the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29 ).


text: Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.


text: Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”


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


text: Heb “anointed.”


text: Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”


text: For location see Map2-B1 ; Map4-D3 ; Map5-E2 ; Map6-A4 ; Map7-C1 .


text: Heb “they said.”


text: Heb “and there was no one belonging to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for kingship.”


text: Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם ( qum , “arise”) is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.


text: Heb “house of Judah.”


text: Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “and he was with them in the house of God hiding.”