translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: NEH

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 “nine of the hands.” The word “hand” is used here in the sense or a part or portion.


text: Heb “the heads of the province.”


label: NET textual note

text: The translation reads מִן־הַשֵּׁלָנִי ( min hashelani , “from the Shelahite”) rather than the MT reading בֶּן־הַשִּׁלֹנִי ( ben hashiloni , “the son of the Shilionite”). See 1 Chr 9:5 .


text: Heb “those behind him.” Some scholars emend the text to וְאֶחָיו ( vÿ ’ ekhayv , “his brothers”).


text: Heb “brothers” (also in vv. 13, 14, 17, 19 ).


text: Heb “heads of fathers.”


text: The translation reads with the LXX וְאֶחָיו ( vÿ ’ ekhayv , “and his brothers”) rather than the MT reading וַאֲחֵיהֶם ( va ’ akhehem , “and their brothers”).


text: Heb “who were of the heads.”


text: The translation reads with the Lucianic Greek recension and Vulgate הַתְּהִלָה ( hattÿhilah , “the praise”) rather than the MT reading הַתְּחִלָּה ( hattÿkhillah , “the beginning”).


text: Heb “the temple attendants.” The pronoun “them” has been substituted in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “the commandment of the king was over them.”


text: Heb “a thing of a day in its day.”


text: Heb “to the hand of the king.”


text: Heb “its daughters.” So also in vv. 27, 28, 30, and 31 .


text: The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew MSS and the Syriac Peshitta וּמִבְּנֵי ( umibbÿney , “and some of the descendants of”; cf. NLT) rather than the MT reading וּבְנֵי ( uvÿne , “and the sons of”).


text: Heb “from Geba.” It is preferable to delete the preposition “from” read by the MT.


text: For location see Map4-G4 ; Map5-C1 ; Map6-E3 ; Map7-D1 ; Map8-G3 .


text: For location see Map1-D2 ; Map2-D3 ; Map3-A2 ; Map4-C1 .


text: The translation reads וְגֵי ( vÿgey , “and the valley”) rather than the MT reading גֵּי ( gey , “the valley”). The original vav ( ו ) probably dropped out accidentally due to haplography with the final vav on the immediately preceding word.


text: Heb “Ge-harashim,” which could be left untranslated as a place name.