2 Chronicles 16:3

16:3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.”

2 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 Jehoram received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You have not followed in the footsteps of your father Jehoshaphat and of King Asa of Judah,


tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.

tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

tn Heb “in the ways of.”