39:9 “‘Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and use the weapons for kindling 4 – the shields, 5 bows and arrows, war clubs and spears – they will burn them for seven years.
1 tn Heb “I have assigned for you that the years of their iniquity be the number of days.” Num 14:33-34 is an example of the reverse, where the days were converted into years, the number of days spying out the land becoming the number of years of the wilderness wanderings.
2 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
sn The significance of the number 390 is not clear. The best explanation is that “days” are used figuratively for years and the number refers to the years of the sinfulness of Israel during the period of the First Temple. Some understand the number to refer to the length of the division of the northern and southern kingdoms down to the fall of Jerusalem (931-586
3 tn Or “When you have carried the iniquity of the house of Israel,” and continuing on to the next verse.
4 tn Heb “burn and kindle the weapons.”
5 tn Two different types of shields are specified in the Hebrew text.