2 Chronicles 6:16
Context6:16 Now, O Lord God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, 1 provided that your descendants watch their step and obey my law as you have done.’ 2
2 Chronicles 20:17
Context20:17 You will not fight in this battle. Take your positions, stand, and watch the Lord deliver you, 3 O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! 4 Tomorrow march out toward them; the Lord is with you!’”
2 Chronicles 30:6
Context30:6 Messengers 5 delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.
This royal edict read: 6 “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return 7 to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. 8
2 Chronicles 35:21
Context35:21 Necho 9 sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? 10 I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. 11 God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” 12
1 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
2 tn Heb “guard their way by walking in my law as you have walked before me.”
3 tn Heb “the deliverance of the
4 tn Or perhaps “don’t get discouraged.”
5 tn Heb “the runners.”
6 tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”
7 tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
8 tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”
11 tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”
12 tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”