25:20 But Amaziah did not heed the warning, 7 for God wanted to hand them over to Joash because they followed the gods of Edom. 8
32:6 He appointed military officers over the army 9 and assembled them in the square at the city gate. He encouraged them, 10 saying,
1 tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”
2 tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”
3 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”
4 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”
5 tn Heb “Do you not know that the
sn For other references to a “covenant of salt,” see Lev 2:13 and Num 18:19.
6 tc Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Jehoram was surrounded and launched a victorious nighttime counterattack. Yet v. 10 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֹתוֹ [’oto, “him”] instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. See also 2 Kgs 8:21.
7 tn Heb “did not listen.”
8 tn Heb “because it was from God in order to give them into the hand because they sought the gods of Edom.”
9 tn Heb “and he placed officers of war over the people.”
10 tn Heb “he spoke to their heart[s].”
11 tn Heb “doer[s] of the work.”
12 tn Heb “and they gave it to the doers of the work who were working in the house of the
13 tn Heb “that was found in the house of the