Discovery Box2 Chronicles 30:6 
Context30:6 Messengers 1 delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.
This royal edict read: 2 “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return 3 to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. 4
2 Chronicles 32:7
Context32:7 “Be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic 5 because of the king of Assyria and this huge army that is with him! We have with us one who is stronger than those who are with him. 6
2 Chronicles 32:21
Context32:21 The Lord sent a messenger 7 and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib 8 returned home humiliated. 9 When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons 10 struck him down with the sword.
1 tn Heb “the runners.”
2 tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”
3 tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
4 tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”
5 tn Or perhaps, “and don’t be discouraged.”
6 tn Heb “for with us [is] a greater [one] than with him.”
7 tn Or “an angel.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”
10 tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”
