2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ¹  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ²  returned home humiliated. ³  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ⁴  struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 33:14

33:14 After this Manasseh ⁵  built up the outer wall of the City of David ⁶  on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho ⁷  sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? ⁸  I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. ⁹  God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Or “an angel.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

⁴ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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.

⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

¹¹ tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

¹² tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”