2 Chronicles 20:20
20:20 Early the next morning they marched out to the Desert of Tekoa. When they were ready to march, Jehoshaphat stood up and said: “Listen to me, you people of Judah 1 and residents of Jerusalem! Trust in the Lord your God and you will be safe! 2 Trust in the message of his prophets and you will win.”
2 Chronicles 23:13
23:13 Then she saw 3 the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters stood beside the king and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets, and the musicians with various instruments were leading the celebration. Athaliah tore her clothes and yelled, “Treason! Treason!” 4
2 Chronicles 24:20
24:20 God’s Spirit energized 5 Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’”
2 Chronicles 34:31
34:31 The king stood by his pillar 6 and renewed 7 the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow 8 the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, 9 by carrying out the terms 10 of this covenant recorded on this scroll.
1 tn Heb “O Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “Judah” in v. 15.
2 tn There is a wordplay in the Hebrew text. The Hiphil verb form הַאֲמִינוּ (ha’aminu, “trust”) and the Niphal form תֵאָמֵנוּ (te’amenu, “you will be safe”) come from the same verbal root (אָמַן, ’aman).
3 tn Heb “and she saw, and behold.”
4 tn Or “Conspiracy! Conspiracy!”
5 tn Heb “clothed.”
6 tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”
7 tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”
8 tn Heb “walk after.”
9 tn Or “soul.”
10 tn Heb “words.”