2 Chronicles 11:6

11:6 Bethlehem, ¹  Etam, Tekoa,

2 Chronicles 11:2

11:2 But the Lord told Shemaiah the prophet, ² 

2 Chronicles 14:2

Asa’s Religious and Military Accomplishments

14:2 (14:1) Asa did what the Lord his God desired and approved. ³ 

2 Chronicles 14:1

14:1 (13:23) ⁴  Abijah passed away ⁵  and was buried in the City of David. ⁶  His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign ⁷  the land had rest for ten years.

2 Chronicles 4:5

4:5 It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons. ⁸ 

Jeremiah 6:1

The Destruction of Jerusalem Depicted

6:1 “Run for safety, people of Benjamin!

Get out of Jerusalem! ⁹ 

Sound the trumpet ¹⁰  in Tekoa!

Light the signal fires at Beth Hakkerem!

For disaster lurks ¹¹  out of the north;

it will bring great destruction. ¹² 

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

² tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying.”

³ tn Heb “and Asa did the good and the right in the eyes of the Lord his God.”

⁴ sn Beginning with 14:1, the verse numbers through 14:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 14:1 ET = 13:23 HT, 14:2 ET = 14:1 HT, 14:3 ET = 14:2 HT, etc., through 14:15 ET = 14:14 HT. Beginning with 15:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁶ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁷ tn Heb “in his days.”

⁸ tn Heb “3,000 baths” (note that the capacity is given in 1 Kings 7:26 as “2,000 baths”). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so 3,000 baths was a quantity of about 18,000 gallons (66,000 liters).

⁹ tn Heb “Flee for safety, people of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “ram’s horn,” but the modern equivalent is “trumpet” and is more readily understandable.

¹¹ tn Heb “leans down” or “looks down.” This verb personifies destruction leaning/looking down from its window in the sky, ready to attack.

¹² tn Heb “[It will be] a severe fracture.” The nation is pictured as a limb being fractured.