2 Chronicles 18:21
18:21 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord 1 said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. 2 Go out and do as you have proposed.’
2 Chronicles 22:7
22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. 3 When Ahaziah 4 arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned 5 to wipe out Ahab’s family. 6
2 Chronicles 29:16
29:16 The priests then entered the Lord’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside. 7 The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the Lord is assuring the spirit of success on his mission. However, in a commissioning context (note the following imperatives) such as this, it is more likely that the imperfects are injunctive, in which case one could translate, “Deceive, and also overpower.”
3 tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “anointed.”
6 tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”
7 tn Heb “in the temple of the Lord.”