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 32:9

32:9 Afterward King Sennacherib of Assyria, while attacking Lachish with all his military might, sent his messengers ⁴  to Jerusalem. The message was for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of ⁵  Judah who were in Jerusalem. It read:

2 Chronicles 36:16

36:16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, ⁶  and ridiculed his prophets. ⁷  Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. ⁸ 

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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 “servants.”

⁵ tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.

⁶ tn Heb “his words.”

⁷ tn All three verbal forms (“mocked,” “despised,” and “ridiculed”) are active participles in the Hebrew text, indicating continual or repeated action. They made a habit of rejecting God’s prophetic messengers.

⁸ tn Heb “until the anger of the Lord went up against his people until there was no healer.”