35:20 After Josiah had done all this for the temple, 3 King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. 4 Josiah marched out to oppose him.
1 tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”
2 tn Heb “and the terror of God [or “a great terror”] was upon all the kingdoms of the lands.” It is uncertain if אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) should be understood as a proper name here (“God”), or taken in an idiomatic superlative sense.
3 tn Heb “After all this, [by] which Josiah prepared the temple.”
4 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Or “a fine.”
5 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).