translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “In his days.”


text: Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.


text: The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”


text: Heb “Certainly according to the word of the Lord this happened against Judah, to remove [them] from his face because of the sins of Manasseh according to all which he did.”


text: Heb “and also the blood of the innocent which he shed, and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.”


text: Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”


text: Heb “lay down with his fathers.”


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


text: Heb “the name of his mother.”


text: Heb “in the eyes of.”


text: Heb “servants.”


text: Heb “went up [to] Jerusalem and the city entered into siege.”


text: Heb “came out.”


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


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


text: Heb “and he deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king and the wives of the king and his eunuchs and the mighty of the land he led into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.”


text: Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”


text: Heb “his.”


label: NET textual note

text: Some textual witnesses support the consonantal text ( Kethib ) in reading “Hamital.”


text: Heb “according to all which Jehoiakim had done.”


text: Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”