2 Chronicles 13:11

13:11 They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly ¹  we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.

2 Chronicles 24:6

24:6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, ²  and said to him, “Why have you not made ³  the Levites collect ⁴  from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?” ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 30:6

30:6 Messengers ⁶  delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.

This royal edict read: ⁷  “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return ⁸  to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 30:8

30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn ¹⁰  like your fathers! Submit ¹¹  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. ¹² 

¹ tn Or “for.”

² tn Heb “Jehoiada the head”; the word “priest” not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

³ tn Heb “sought.”

⁴ tn Heb “bring.”

⁵ tn Heb “the tent of testimony.”

³ tn Heb “the runners.”

⁴ tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”

⁵ tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

⁶ tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”

⁴ tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).

⁵ tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.

⁶ 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.