¹ tn Heb for my name to be there.” See also the note on the word “live” in v. 5.

² tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

³ tn Heb “and it was heard with their voice.” BDB 1034 s.v. שָׁמַע Niph.4 interprets this to mean “hearing was granted to their voice.” It is possible that the name יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the Lord”) has been accidentally omitted.

⁴ tn Heb “and the people of the land.”

⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

⁶ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁷ tn Heb “and the Lord God of their fathers sent against them by the hand of his messengers, getting up early and sending.”

⁸ tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

⁹ tn Or “accepted.”

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.

¹² 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 b.c., which is most naturally understood as the beginning point of the “days of desolation” mentioned in v. 21. The number “seventy” is probably used in a metaphorical sense, indicating a typical lifetime and suggesting a thorough or complete judgment that would not be lifted until an entirely new generation emerged.