Discovery Box2 Chronicles 30:8 
Context30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn 1 like your fathers! Submit 2 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. 3
2 Chronicles 36:13
Context36:13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance 4 in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return 5 to the Lord God of Israel.
1 tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).
2 tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.
3 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.
4 tn Or “made him swear an oath.”
5 tn Heb “and he stiffened his neck and strengthened his heart from returning.”
