Ezra 6:11
ContextNETBible | “I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled 1 on it, and his house is to be reduced 2 to a rubbish heap 3 for this indiscretion. 4 |
XREF | 2Ki 9:37; 2Ki 10:27; Ezr 7:26; Es 5:4; Es 7:10; Da 2:5; Da 3:29 |
NET © Notes |
1 sn The practice referred to in v. 11 has been understood in various ways: hanging (cf. 1 Esd 6:32 and KJV); flogging (cf. NEB, NLT); impalement (BDB 1091 s.v. זְקַף; HALOT 1914 s.v. מחא hitpe; cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The latter seems the most likely. 2 tn Aram “made.” 3 tn Aram “a dunghill.” 4 tn Aram “for this.” |