2 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; ¹  you removed ²  the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.” ³ 

2 Chronicles 20:33

20:33 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 20:1

The Lord Gives Jehoshaphat Military Success

20:1 Later the Moabites and Ammonites, along with some of the Meunites, ⁵  attacked Jehoshaphat.

2 Chronicles 7:3

7:3 When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the Lord’s splendor over the temple, they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement. They worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, ⁶  “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!”

2 Chronicles 7:1

Solomon Dedicates the Temple

7:1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven ⁷  and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the Lord’s splendor filled the temple.

2 Chronicles 29:18

29:18 They went to King Hezekiah and said: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment.

Ezra 7:10

7:10 Now Ezra had dedicated himself ⁸  to the study of the law of the Lord, to its observance, and to teaching ⁹  its statutes and judgments in Israel.

Job 11:13

11:13 “As for you, ¹⁰  if you prove faithful, ¹¹ 

and if ¹²  you stretch out your hands toward him, ¹³ 

Psalms 10:17

10:17 Lord, you have heard ¹⁴  the request ¹⁵  of the oppressed;

you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer. ¹⁶ 

Proverbs 23:26

23:26 Give me your heart, my son, ¹⁷ 

and let your eyes observe my ways;

¹ tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”

² tn Here בָּעַר (ba’ar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.

³ tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek the Lord.”

⁴ tn Heb “and still the people did not set their heart[s] on the God of their fathers.”

⁷ tc The Hebrew text has “Ammonites,” but they are mentioned just before this. Most translations, following some mss of the LXX, read “Meunites” (see 1 Chr 26:7; so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

¹⁰ tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹³ tn Or “the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

¹⁶ tn Heb “established his heart.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “to do and to teach.” The expression may be a hendiadys, in which case it would have the sense of “effectively teaching.”

¹⁹ tn The pronoun is emphatic, designed to put Job in a different class than the hollow men – at least to raise the possibility of his being in a different class.

²⁰ tn The Hebrew uses the perfect of כּוּן (kun, “establish”) with the object “your heart.” The verb can be translated “prepare, fix, make firm” your heart. To fix the heart is to make it faithful and constant, the heart being the seat of the will and emotions. The use of the perfect here does not refer to the past, but should be given a future perfect sense – if you shall have fixed your heart, i.e., prove faithful. Job would have to make his heart secure, so that he was no longer driven about by differing views.

²¹ tn This half-verse is part of the protasis and not, as in the RSV, the apodosis to the first half. The series of “if” clauses will continue through these verses until v. 15.

²² sn This is the posture of prayer (see Isa 1:15). The expression means “spread out your palms,” probably meaning that the one praying would fall to his knees, put his forehead to the ground, and spread out his hands in front of him on the ground.

²² sn You have heard. The psalmist is confident that God has responded positively to his earlier petitions for divine intervention. The psalmist apparently prayed the words of vv. 16-18 after the reception of an oracle of deliverance (given in response to the confident petition of vv. 12-15) or after the Lord actually delivered him from his enemies.

²³ tn Heb “desire.”

²⁴ tn Heb “you make firm their heart, you cause your ear to listen.”

²⁵ tn Heb “my son”; the reference to a “son” is retained in the translation here because in the following lines the advice is to avoid women who are prostitutes.