2 Kings 13:4-6

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 2 Kings 13:4 tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord.”
2. 2 Kings 13:4 tn Heb “and the Lord listened to him.”
3. 2 Kings 13:4 tn Heb “for he saw the oppression of Israel, for the king of Syria oppressed them.”
4. 2 Kings 13:5 sn The identity of this unnamed “deliverer” is debated. For options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 143.
5. 2 Kings 13:5 tn Heb “and they went from under the hand of Syria.”
6. 2 Kings 13:5 tn Heb “and the sons of Israel lived in their tents as before.”
7. 2 Kings 13:6 tn Heb “they did not turn away from.”
8. 2 Kings 13:6 tn Heb “house.”
9. 2 Kings 13:6 tc Heb “in it he walked.” The singular verb (הָלַךְ, halakh) is probably due to an error of haplography and should be emended to the plural (הָלְכוּ, hal^ekhu). Note that a vav immediately follows (on the form וְגַם, v^egam).
10. 2 Kings 13:6 tn Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.”sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).