2 Chronicles 12:2-5

12:2 Because they were unfaithful to the Lord, in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. 12:3 He had 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and an innumerable number of soldiers who accompanied him from Egypt, including Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. 12:4 He captured the fortified cities of Judah and marched against Jerusalem.

12:5 Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’” ¹ 

2 Chronicles 20:9-13

20:9 ‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, ²  judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. ³  We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will ⁴  hear and deliver us.’ 20:10 Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! ⁵  When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. ⁶  They bypassed them and did not destroy them. 20:11 Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us! 20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don’t know what we should do; we look to you for help.” ⁷ 

20:13 All the men of Judah ⁸  were standing before the Lord, along with their infants, wives, and children.

2 Chronicles 32:1

Sennacherib Invades Judah

32:1 After these faithful deeds were accomplished, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities, intending to seize them. ⁹ 

Leviticus 26:25

26:25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. ¹⁰  Although ¹¹  you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 28:52-57

28:52 They will besiege all of your villages ¹³  until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you. 28:53 You will then eat your own offspring, ¹⁴  the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege ¹⁵  by which your enemies will constrict you. 28:54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children. 28:55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict ¹⁶  you in your villages. 28:56 Likewise, the most ¹⁷  tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, ¹⁸  will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 28:57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth ¹⁹  and her newborn children ²⁰  (since she has nothing else), ²¹  because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

[12:5]  ¹ tn Heb “also I have rejected you into the hand of Shishak.”

[20:9]  ² tn Heb “sword.”

[20:9]  ³ tn Heb “for your name is in this house.” The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name. In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

[20:9]  ⁴ tn Or “so that you may.”

[20:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “now, look, the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir.”

[20:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “whom you did not allow Israel to enter when they came from the land of Egypt.”

[20:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “for [or “indeed”] upon you are our eyes.”

[20:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the men of Judah.

[32:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he said to break into them for himself.”

[26:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “vengeance of covenant”; cf. NAB “the avenger of my covenant.”

[26:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) has a concessive force in this context.

[26:25]  ¹² tn Heb “in hand of enemy,” but Tg. Ps.-J. and Tg. Neof. have “in the hands of your enemies” (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 454).

[28:52]  ¹³ tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.

[28:53]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”

[28:53]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “siege and stress.”

[28:55]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”

[28:56]  ¹⁷ tc The LXX adds σφόδρα (sfodra, “very”) to bring the description into line with v. 54.

[28:56]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “delicateness and tenderness.”

[28:57]  ¹⁹ tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”

[28:57]  ²⁰ tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”

[28:57]  ²¹ tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”