2 Chronicles 6:24
6:24 “If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy 1 because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, 2 and pray for your help 3 before you in this temple,
2 Chronicles 13:15
13:15 and the men of Judah gave 4 the battle cry. As the men of Judah gave the battle cry, the Lord struck down Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
2 Chronicles 14:13
14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; 5 they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah 6 carried off a huge amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 18:9
18:9 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, dressed in their royal robes, at the threshing floor at 7 the entrance of the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying before them.
2 Chronicles 18:14
18:14 Micaiah 8 came before the king and the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; they will be handed over to you.” 9
2 Chronicles 20:21
20:21 He met 10 with the people and appointed musicians to play before the Lord and praise his majestic splendor. As they marched ahead of the warriors they said: “Give thanks to the Lord, for his loyal love endures.” 11
2 Chronicles 25:14
25:14 When Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people 12 of Seir and made them his personal gods. 13 He bowed down before them and offered them sacrifices.
2 Chronicles 28:3
28:3 He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, 14 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 15 whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 28:13
28:13 They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the Lord? 16 Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” 17
2 Chronicles 34:24
34:24 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.
1 tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”
2 tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”
3 tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”
4 tn Heb “shouted out.”
5 tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”
6 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “at,” which in this case probably means “near.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
9 sn One does not expect Micaiah, having just vowed to speak only what the Lord tells him, to agree with the other prophets and give the king an inaccurate prophecy. Micaiah’s actions became understandable later, when we discover that the Lord desires to deceive the king and lead him to his demise. The Lord even dispatches a lying spirit to deceive Ahab’s prophets. Micaiah can lie to the king because he realizes this lie is from the Lord. It is important to note that in v. 13 Micaiah only vows to speak the word of his God; he does not necessarily say he will tell the truth. In this case the Lord’s word is deliberately deceptive. Only when the king adjures him to tell the truth (v. 15), does Micaiah do so.
10 tn Or “consulted.”
11 tn Or “is eternal.”
12 tn Heb “sons.”
13 tn Heb “caused them to stand for him as gods.”
14 sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB “burnt his sons in the fire”; NASB “burned his sons in the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
15 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
16 tn Heb “for to the guilt of the Lord upon us you are saying to add to our sins and our guilty deeds.”
17 tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”