2 Chronicles 20:2

20:2 Messengers ¹  arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, “A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea, ²  from the direction of Edom. ³  Look, they are in Hazezon Tamar (that is, En Gedi).”

2 Chronicles 20:24

20:24 When the men of Judah ⁴  arrived at the observation post overlooking the desert and looked at ⁵  the huge army, they saw dead bodies on the ground; there were no survivors!

2 Chronicles 22:7

22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. ⁶  When Ahaziah ⁷  arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned ⁸  to wipe out Ahab’s family. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 32:31

32:31 So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, ¹⁰  God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives. ¹¹ 

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¹ tn Heb “they”; the implied referent (messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “the Sea”; in context (“from the direction of Edom”) this must refer to the Dead Sea, which has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. NEB, NLT).

³ tc Most Hebrew mss read “from Aram” (i.e., Syria), but this must be a corruption of “Edom,” which is the reading of the LXX and Vulgate.

⁴ tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the men of Judah.

⁵ tn Heb “turned toward.”

⁶ tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “anointed.”

⁹ tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and when the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire concerning the sign which was in the land, [arrived].”

¹¹ tn Heb “to know all [that was] in his heart.”