2 Chronicles 20:2
Context20:2 Messengers 1 arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, “A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea, 2 from the direction of Edom. 3 Look, they are in Hazezon Tamar (that is, En Gedi).”
2 Chronicles 20:24
Context20:24 When the men of Judah 4 arrived at the observation post overlooking the desert and looked at 5 the huge army, they saw dead bodies on the ground; there were no survivors!
2 Chronicles 22:7
Context22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. 6 When Ahaziah 7 arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned 8 to wipe out Ahab’s family. 9
2 Chronicles 32:31
Context32:31 So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, 10 God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives. 11
1 tn Heb “they”; the implied referent (messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “the Sea”; in context (“from the direction of Edom”) this must refer to the Dead Sea, which has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. NEB, NLT).
3 tc Most Hebrew
4 tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the men of Judah.
5 tn Heb “turned toward.”
6 tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “anointed.”
9 tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”
10 tn Heb “and when the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire concerning the sign which was in the land, [arrived].”
11 tn Heb “to know all [that was] in his heart.”