Discovery Box2 Chronicles 21:16
Context21:16 The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the Philistines 1 and the Arabs who lived beside the Cushites.
2 Chronicles 21:1
Context21:1 Jehoshaphat passed away 2 and was buried with his ancestors 3 in the City of David. 4 His son Jehoram 5 replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 26:19
Context26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving 6 at the priests, a skin disease 7 appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.
2 Chronicles 26:1
Context26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, 8 who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.
2 Chronicles 11:14
Context11:14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord’s priests.
2 Chronicles 11:23
Context11:23 He wisely placed some of his many sons throughout the regions of Judah and Benjamin in the various fortified cities. 9 He supplied them with abundant provisions and acquired many wives for them. 10
2 Chronicles 11:1
Context11:1 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from Judah and Benjamin 11 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
2 Chronicles 5:1
Context5:1 When Solomon had finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God’s temple.
Ezra 1:5
Context1:5 Then the leaders 12 of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites – all those whose mind God had stirred – got ready 13 to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. 14
Isaiah 13:3-5
Context13:3 I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; 15
I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, 16
my boasting, arrogant ones. 17
13:4 18 There is a loud noise on the mountains –
it sounds like a large army! 19
There is great commotion among the kingdoms 20 –
nations are being assembled!
The Lord who commands armies is mustering
forces for battle.
13:5 They come from a distant land,
from the horizon. 21
It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, 22
coming to destroy the whole earth. 23
Isaiah 13:17-18
Context13:17 Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them; 24
they are not concerned about silver,
nor are they interested in gold. 25
13:18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; 26
they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, 27
they will not 28 look with pity on children.
Isaiah 44:28--45:5
Context44:28 who commissions 29 Cyrus, the one I appointed as shepherd 30
to carry out all my wishes 31
and to decree concerning Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’
and concerning the temple, ‘It will be reconstructed.’” 32
45:1 This is what the Lord says to his chosen 33 one,
to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold 34
in order to subdue nations before him,
and disarm kings, 35
to open doors before him,
so gates remain unclosed:
45:2 “I will go before you
and level mountains. 36
Bronze doors I will shatter
and iron bars 37 I will hack through.
45:3 I will give you hidden treasures, 38
riches stashed away in secret places,
so you may recognize that I am the Lord,
the one who calls you by name, the God of Israel.
45:4 For the sake of my servant Jacob,
Israel, my chosen one,
I call you by name
and give you a title of respect, even though you do not recognize 39 me.
45:5 I am the Lord, I have no peer, 40
there is no God but me.
I arm you for battle, 41 even though you do not recognize 42 me.
Haggai 1:14
Context1:14 So the Lord energized and encouraged 43 Zerubbabel 44 son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, 45 and the whole remnant of the people. 46 They came and worked on the temple of their God, the Lord who rules over all.
[21:16] 1 tn Heb “the spirit of the Philistines.”
[21:1] 2 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
[21:1] 3 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 10, 12, 19).
[21:1] 4 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
[21:1] 5 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 8:16-24 has the variant spelling “Jehoram.”
[26:19] 7 tn Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s disease). See 2 Kgs 5:1.
[26:1] 8 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”
[11:23] 9 tn Heb “and he was discerning and broke up from all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities.”
[11:23] 10 tn “and he asked for a multitude of wives.”
[11:1] 11 tn Heb “he summoned the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men, accomplished in war.”
[1:5] 12 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
[1:5] 14 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[13:3] 15 tn Heb “my consecrated ones,” i.e., those who have been set apart by God for the special task of carrying out his judgment.
[13:3] 16 tn Heb “my warriors with respect to my anger.”
[13:3] 17 tn Heb “the boasting ones of my pride”; cf. ASV, NASB, NRSV “my proudly exulting ones.”
[13:4] 18 sn In vv. 4-10 the prophet appears to be speaking, since the Lord is referred to in the third person. However, since the Lord refers to himself in the third person later in this chapter (see v. 13), it is possible that he speaks throughout the chapter.
[13:4] 19 tn Heb “a sound, a roar [is] on the mountains, like many people.”
[13:4] 20 tn Heb “a sound, tumult of kingdoms.”
[13:5] 21 tn Heb “from the end of the sky.”
[13:5] 22 tn Or “anger”; cf. KJV, ASV “the weapons of his indignation.”
[13:5] 23 tn Or perhaps, “land” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NLT). Even though the heading and subsequent context (see v. 17) indicate Babylon’s judgment is in view, the chapter has a cosmic flavor that suggests that the coming judgment is universal in scope. Perhaps Babylon’s downfall occurs in conjunction with a wider judgment, or the cosmic style is poetic hyperbole used to emphasize the magnitude and importance of the coming event.
[13:17] 24 tn Heb “against them”; NLT “against Babylon.”
[13:17] 25 sn They cannot be bought off, for they have a lust for bloodshed.
[13:18] 26 tn Heb “and bows cut to bits young men.” “Bows” stands by metonymy for arrows.
[13:18] 27 tn Heb “the fruit of the womb.”
[13:18] 28 tn Heb “their eye does not.” Here “eye” is a metonymy for the whole person.
[44:28] 29 tn Heb “says to.” It is possible that the sentence is not completed, as the description of Cyrus and his God-given role is developed in the rest of the verse. 45:1 picks up where 44:28a leaves off with the Lord’s actual words to Cyrus finally being quoted in 45:2.
[44:28] 30 tn Heb “my shepherd.” The shepherd motif is sometimes applied, as here, to a royal figure who is responsible for the well-being of the people whom he rules.
[44:28] 31 tn Heb “that he might bring to completion all my desire.”
[44:28] 32 tn Heb “and [concerning the] temple, you will be founded.” The preposition -לְ (lÿ) is understood by ellipsis at the beginning of the second line. The verb תִּוָּסֵד (tivvased, “you will be founded”) is second masculine singular and is probably addressed to the personified temple (הֵיכָל [hekhal, “temple”] is masculine).
[45:1] 33 tn Heb “anointed” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NCV “his appointed king.”
[45:1] 34 sn The “right hand” is a symbol of activity and strength; the Lord directs Cyrus’ activities and assures his success.
[45:1] 35 tn Heb “and the belts of kings I will loosen”; NRSV “strip kings of their robes”; NIV “strip kings of their armor.”
[45:2] 36 tc The form הֲדוּרִים (hadurim) makes little, if any, sense here. It is probably a corruption of an original הָרָרִים (hararim, “mountains”), the reduplicated form of הָר (har, “mountain”).
[45:2] 37 tn That is, on the gates. Cf. CEV “break the iron bars on bronze gates.”
[45:3] 38 tn Heb “treasures of darkness” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “treasures from dark, secret places.”
[45:4] 39 tn Or “know” (NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT); NIV “acknowledge.”
[45:5] 40 tn Heb “and there is none besides.” On the use of עוֹד (’od) here, see BDB 729 s.v. 1.c.
[45:5] 41 tn Heb “gird you” (so NASB) or “strengthen you” (so NIV).
[45:5] 42 tn Or “know” (NAB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT); NIV “have not acknowledged.”
[1:14] 43 tn Heb “stirred up” (as in many English versions). Only one verb appears in the Hebrew text, but the translation “energized and encouraged” brings out its sense in this context. Cf. TEV “inspired”; NLT “sparked the enthusiasm of”; CEV “made everyone eager to work.”
[1:14] 44 tn Heb “the spirit of Zerubbabel” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
[1:14] 45 tn Heb “the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest” (as in many English versions), but this is subject to misunderstanding. See the note on the name “Jehozadak” at the end of v. 1.
[1:14] 46 tn Heb “and the spirit of all the remnant of the people.” The Hebrew phrase שְׁאֵרִית הָעָם (shÿ’erit ha’am) in this postexilic context is used as a technical term to refer to the returned remnant; see the note on the phrase “the whole remnant of the people” in v. 12.
