2 Chronicles 13:12

13:12 Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you. ¹  You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, ²  for you will not win!”

2 Chronicles 23:6

23:6 No one must enter the Lord’s temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 25:7

25:7 But a prophet ³  visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 30:8

30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn ⁵  like your fathers! Submit ⁶  to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho ⁸  sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? ⁹  I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. ¹⁰  God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” ¹¹ 

[13:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”

[13:12]  ² tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18).

[25:7]  ³ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “Israel, all the sons of Ephraim.”

[30:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).

[30:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.

[30:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[35:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[35:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

[35:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

[35:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”