2 Chronicles 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer, ¹  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, ²  who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ³  That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 24:24-25

24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, ⁴  for the people of Judah ⁵  had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians ⁶  gave Joash what he deserved. ⁷  24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash ⁸  badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to ⁹  the son ¹⁰  of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus ¹¹  he died and was buried in the City of David, ¹²  but not in the tombs of the kings.

¹ tn Heb “and they will say.”

² tn Heb “fathers.”

³ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

⁴ tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”

⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”

⁷ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”

⁹ tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he died.”

¹¹ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.