30:10 The messengers journeyed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but people mocked and ridiculed them. 3
36:15 The Lord God of their ancestors 4 continually warned them through his messengers, 5 for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place.
1 tn Heb “Listen.”
2 tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went through the entrance of the gate of the horses [into] the house of the king.” Some English versions treat the phrase “gate of the horses” as the name of the gate (“the Horse Gate”; e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “and they were mocking them and ridiculing them.”
4 tn Heb “fathers.”
5 tn Heb “and the
6 tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the
7 tn Or “accepted.”
8 sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile.
9 sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.
10 tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”
sn Cyrus’ edict (see vv. 22-23) occurred about fifty years after the fall of Jerusalem in 586