2 Chronicles 15:2

15:2 He met ¹  Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. ²  If you seek him, he will respond to you, ³  but if you reject him, he will reject you.

2 Chronicles 25:8

25:8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you ⁴  before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.” ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 25:1

Amaziah’s Reign

25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ⁶  His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 22:11

22:11 So Jehoshabeath, ⁷  the daughter of King Jehoram, ⁸  took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away ⁹  from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

2 Chronicles 22:1

Ahaziah’s Reign

22:1 The residents of Jerusalem ¹⁰  made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the city with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. ¹¹  So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

Psalms 1:3

1:3 He is like ¹²  a tree planted by flowing streams; ¹³ 

it ¹⁴  yields ¹⁵  its fruit at the proper time, ¹⁶ 

and its leaves never fall off. ¹⁷ 

He succeeds in everything he attempts. ¹⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “went out before.”

² tn Heb “when you are with him.”

³ tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”

⁴ tn Heb “cause you to stumble.”

⁵ tn Heb “to cause to stumble.”

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⁷ sn Jehoshabeath is a variant spelling of the name Jehosheba (2 Kgs 11:2).

⁸ tn Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “stole.”

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¹¹ tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”

¹² tn The Hebrew perfect verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive here carries the same characteristic force as the imperfect in the preceding verse. According to the psalmist, the one who studies and obeys God’s commands typically prospers.

¹³ tn Heb “channels of water.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “which.”

¹⁵ tn The Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in v. 3 draw attention to the typical nature of the actions/states they describe.

¹⁶ tn Heb “in its season.”

¹⁷ tn Or “fade”; “wither.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and all which he does prospers”; or “and all which he does he causes to prosper.” (The simile of the tree does not extend to this line.) It is not certain if the Hiphil verbal form (יַצְלִיחַ, yatsliakh) is intransitive-exhibitive (“prospers”) or causative (“causes to prosper”) here. If the verb is intransitive, then כֹּל (kol, “all, everything”) is the subject. If the verb is causative, then the godly individual or the Lord himself is the subject and כֹּל is the object. The wording is reminiscent of Josh 1:8, where the Lord tells Joshua: “This law scroll must not leave your lips! You must memorize it day and night so you can carefully obey all that is written in it. Then you will prosper (literally, “cause your way to prosper”) and be successful.”