2 Chronicles 28:6

28:6 In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 33:11

33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, ²  bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33:2

33:2 He did evil in the sight of ³  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ⁴  whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 17:6-7

17:6 He was committed to following the Lord; ⁵  he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

17:7 In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah.

2 Chronicles 22:1

Ahaziah’s Reign

22:1 The residents of Jerusalem ⁶  made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the city with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. ⁷  So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

Isaiah 37:2-4

37:2 Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ⁸  clothed in sackcloth, sent this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz: 37:3 “This is what Hezekiah says: ⁹  ‘This is a day of distress, insults, ¹⁰  and humiliation, ¹¹  as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. ¹²  37:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. ¹³  When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. ¹⁴  So pray for this remnant that remains.’” ¹⁵ 

Jeremiah 42:2

42:2 They said to him, “Please grant our request ¹⁶  and pray to the Lord your God for all those of us who are still left alive here. ¹⁷  For, as you yourself can see, there are only a few of us left out of the many there were before. ¹⁸ 

[28:6]  ¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 25).

[33:11]  ² tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”

[33:2]  ³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[33:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[17:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and his heart was high in the ways of the Lord.” Perhaps גָּבַהּ (gavah, “be high”) here means “be cheerful” (HALOT 171 s.v.) or “be encouraged” (BDB 147 s.v. 3.a).

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[22:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”

[37:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “elders of the priests” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NCV “the older priests”; NRSV, TEV, CEV “the senior priests.”

[37:3]  ⁹ tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him” (cf. NRSV).

[37:3]  ¹⁰ tn Or “rebuke” (KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV), or “correction.”

[37:3]  ¹¹ tn Or “contempt”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “disgrace.”

[37:3]  ¹² tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”

[37:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”

[37:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”

[37:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”

[42:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “please let our petition fall before you.” For the idiom here see 37:20 and the translator’s note there.

[42:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “on behalf of us, [that is] on behalf of all this remnant.”

[42:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “For we are left a few from the many as your eyes are seeing us.” The words “used to be” are not in the text but are implicit. These words are supplied in the translation for clarity and smoothness of English style.