2 Chronicles 23:14
23:14 Jehoiada the priest sent out the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, and ordered them, “Bring her outside the temple to the guards. 1 Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple. 2
2 Chronicles 32:21
32:21 The Lord sent a messenger 3 and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib 4 returned home humiliated. 5 When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons 6 struck him down with the sword.
1 tn Heb “ranks.”
2 tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Do not put her to death in the house of the Lord.’”
3 tn Or “an angel.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”
6 tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”