2 Chronicles 20:2

20:2 Messengers ¹  arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, “A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea, ²  from the direction of Edom. ³  Look, they are in Hazezon Tamar (that is, En Gedi).”

2 Chronicles 25:20

25:20 But Amaziah did not heed the warning, ⁴  for God wanted to hand them over to Joash because they followed the gods of Edom. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 5:2

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

5:2 Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders – all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families – in Jerusalem, ⁶  so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David ⁷  (that is, Zion). ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 9:12

9:12 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him. ⁹  Then she left and returned ¹⁰  to her homeland with her attendants.

2 Chronicles 22:11

22:11 So Jehoshabeath, ¹¹  the daughter of King Jehoram, ¹²  took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away ¹³  from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

[20:2]  ¹ tn Heb “they”; the implied referent (messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ² tn Heb “the Sea”; in context (“from the direction of Edom”) this must refer to the Dead Sea, which has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. NEB, NLT).

[20:2]  ³ tc Most Hebrew mss read “from Aram” (i.e., Syria), but this must be a corruption of “Edom,” which is the reading of the LXX and Vulgate.

[25:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “did not listen.”

[25:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “because it was from God in order to give them into the hand because they sought the gods of Edom.”

[5:2]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:2]  ⁸ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[5:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David (it is Zion).”

[9:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “besides what she brought to the king.”

[9:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “turned and went.”

[22:11]  ¹³ sn Jehoshabeath is a variant spelling of the name Jehosheba (2 Kgs 11:2).

[22:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “stole.”