Ecclesiastes 8:2
ContextNETBible | Obey the king’s command, 1 because you took 2 an oath before God 3 to be loyal to him. 4 |
XREF | 1Ki 2:43; 1Ch 29:24; Pr 24:21; Eze 17:13-20; Ro 13:1-4; Ro 13:5; Tit 3:1; 1Pe 2:13-17 |
NET © Notes |
1 tc The Leningrad Codex (the basis of BHS) reads אֲנִי (’ani, 1st person common singular independent personal pronoun): “I obey the king’s command.” Other medieval Hebrew 2 tn The phrase “you took” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for smoothness. 3 tn The genitive-construct שְׁבוּעַת אֱלֹהִים (shÿvu’at ’elohim, “an oath of God”) functions as a genitive of location (“an oath before God”) or an adjectival genitive of attribute (“a supreme oath”). 4 tn The words “to be loyal to him” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification. |