2 Chronicles 29:25
Context29:25 King Hezekiah 1 stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, 2 and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)
2 Chronicles 30:18
Context30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. 3 For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive 4
2 Chronicles 32:15
Context32:15 Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. So how 5 can your gods rescue 6 you from my power?’”
2 Chronicles 32:17
Context32:17 He wrote letters mocking the Lord God of Israel and insulting him with these words: 7 “The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah’s god rescue his people from my power.” 8
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (King Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Or “seer.”
3 tn Heb “without what is written.”
4 tn Heb “make atonement for.”
5 tn Heb “how much less.”
6 tn The verb is plural, suggesting that the preceding אֱלֹהֵיכֶם (’elohekhem) be translated “your gods,” rather than “your God.”
7 tn Heb “and speaking against him, saying.”
8 tn Heb “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”