2 Chronicles 16:3
Context16:3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 1 See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 2
2 Chronicles 22:4
Context22:4 He did evil in the sight of 3 the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they 4 gave him advice that led to his destruction.
2 Chronicles 29:6
Context29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of 5 the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned 6 away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. 7
2 Chronicles 30:8
Context30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn 8 like your fathers! Submit 9 to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. 10
1 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
2 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
3 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
4 tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.
5 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
6 tn Heb “turned their faces.”
7 tn Heb “and turned the back.”
8 tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).
9 tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.
10 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.