2 Chronicles 29:21

29:21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. ¹  The king ²  told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 29:27

29:27 Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:30

29:30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms ³  of David and Asaph the prophet. ⁴  So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.

2 Chronicles 30:12

30:12 In Judah God moved the people to unite and carry out the edict the king and the officers had issued at the Lord’s command. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 33:16

33:16 He erected the altar of the Lord and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of ⁶  Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 34:32-33

34:32 He made all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin agree to it. ⁷  The residents of Jerusalem acted in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors. 34:33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged ⁸  all who were in Israel to worship the Lord their God. Throughout the rest of his reign ⁹  they did not turn aside from following the Lord God of their ancestors.

Genesis 18:19

18:19 I have chosen him ¹⁰  so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep ¹¹  the way of the Lord by doing ¹²  what is right and just. Then the Lord will give ¹³  to Abraham what he promised ¹⁴  him.”

Joshua 24:15

24:15 If you have no desire ¹⁵  to worship ¹⁶  the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, ¹⁷  whether it be the gods whom your ancestors ¹⁸  worshiped ¹⁹  beyond the Euphrates, ²⁰  or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family ²¹  will worship ²²  the Lord!”

Joshua 24:1

Israel Renews its Commitment to the Lord

24:1 Joshua assembled all the Israelite tribes at Shechem. He summoned Israel’s elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and they appeared before God.

Joshua 3:13

3:13 When the feet ²³  of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Ruler ²⁴  of the whole earth, touch ²⁵  the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.” ²⁶ 

Ezra 10:7-12

10:7 A proclamation ²⁷  was circulated ²⁸  throughout Judah and Jerusalem ²⁹  that all the exiles were to be assembled in Jerusalem. 10:8 Everyone who did not come within three days would thereby forfeit all his property, in keeping with the counsel of the officials and the elders. Furthermore, he himself would be excluded from the assembly of the exiles.

10:9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. (It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

10:10 Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel. 10:11 Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents ³⁰  and from these foreign wives.”

10:12 All the assembly replied in a loud voice: “We will do just as you have said! ³¹ 

Nehemiah 13:9

13:9 Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment ³²  of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.

Nehemiah 13:19-22

13:19 When the evening shadows ³³  began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered ³⁴  the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned ³⁵  some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day. 13:20 The traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice. 13:21 But I warned them and said, ³⁶  “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you repeat this, I will forcibly remove you!” ³⁷  From that time on they did not show up on the Sabbath. ³⁸  13:22 Then I directed the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.

For this please remember me, O my God, and have pity on me in keeping with your great love.

Psalms 101:2-8

101:2 I will walk in ³⁹  the way of integrity.

When will you come to me?

I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace. ⁴⁰ 

101:3 I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. ⁴¹ 

I hate doing evil; ⁴² 

I will have no part of it. ⁴³ 

101:4 I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; ⁴⁴ 

I will not permit ⁴⁵  evil.

101:5 I will destroy anyone who slanders his neighbor in secret.

I will not tolerate anyone who has a cocky demeanor and an arrogant attitude. ⁴⁶ 

101:6 I will favor the honest people of the land, ⁴⁷ 

and allow them to live with me. ⁴⁸ 

Those who walk in the way of integrity will attend me. ⁴⁹ 

101:7 Deceitful people will not live in my palace. ⁵⁰ 

Liars will not be welcome in my presence. ⁵¹ 

101:8 Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land,

and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

[29:21]  ¹ sn Perhaps these terms refer metonymically to the royal court, the priests and Levites, and the people, respectively.

[29:21]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[29:30]  ³ tn Heb “with the words.”

[29:30]  ⁴ tn Or “seer.”

[30:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “also in Judah the hand of God was to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and the officials by the word of the Lord.”

[33:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “told Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.

[34:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he caused to stand everyone who was found in Jerusalem and Benjamin.”

[34:33]  ⁸ tn Or “caused, forced.”

[34:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “all his days.”

[18:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “For I have known him.” The verb יָדַע (yada’) here means “to recognize and treat in a special manner, to choose” (see Amos 3:2). It indicates that Abraham stood in a special covenantal relationship with the Lord.

[18:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and they will keep.” The perfect verbal form with vav consecutive carries on the subjective nuance of the preceding imperfect verbal form (translated “so that he may command”).

[18:19]  ¹² tn The infinitive construct here indicates manner, explaining how Abraham’s children and his household will keep the way of the Lord.

[18:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “bring on.” The infinitive after לְמַעַן (lÿma’an) indicates result here.

[18:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “spoke to.”

[24:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “if it is bad in your eyes.”

[24:15]  ¹⁶ tn Or “to serve.”

[24:15]  ¹⁷ tn Or “will serve.”

[24:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “your fathers.”

[24:15]  ¹⁹ tn Or “served.”

[24:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity; see v. 3.

[24:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “house.”

[24:15]  ²² tn Or “will serve.”

[3:13]  ²³ tn Heb “the soles of the feet.”

[3:13]  ²⁴ tn Or “Lord”; or “Master.”

[3:13]  ²⁵ tn Or “rest in.”

[3:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the waters of the Jordan, the waters descending from above, will be cut off so that they will stand in one pile.”

[10:7]  ²⁷ tn Heb “voice.”

[10:7]  ²⁸ tn Heb “they sent.”

[10:7]  ²⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[10:11]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the peoples of the land.”

[10:12]  ³¹ tn Heb “thus according to your word [singular = Qere] concerning us, to do.”

[13:9]  ³² tn On the usage of this Hebrew word see HALOT 478-79 s.v. כְּלִי.

[13:19]  ³³ tn Heb “the gates of Jerusalem grew dark.”

[13:19]  ³⁴ tn Heb “said” (so also in v. 22).

[13:19]  ³⁵ tn Heb “caused to stand.”

[13:21]  ³⁶ tn The Hebrew text includes the words “to them,” but they have been excluded from the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:21]  ³⁷ tn Heb “I will send a hand on you.”

[13:21]  ³⁸ sn This statement contains a great deal of restrained humor. The author clearly takes pleasure in the effectiveness of the measures that he had enacted.

[101:2]  ³⁹ tn Heb “take notice of.”

[101:2]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “I will walk about in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my house.”

[101:3]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “I will not set before my eyes a thing of worthlessness.”

[101:3]  ⁴² tn Heb “the doing of swerving [deeds] I hate.” The Hebrew term סֵטִים (setim) is probably an alternate spelling of שֵׂטִים (setim), which appears in many medieval Hebrew mss. The form appears to be derived from a verbal root שׂוּט (sut, “to fall away; to swerve”; see Ps 40:4).

[101:3]  ⁴³ tn Heb “it [i.e., the doing of evil deeds] does not cling to me.”

[101:4]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “a perverse heart will turn aside from me.” The adjective עִקֵּשׁ (’iqqesh) has the basic nuance “twisted; crooked” and by extension refers to someone or something that is morally perverse (see Ps 18:26). It appears frequently in the Book of Proverbs, where it is used of evil people (22:5), speech (8:8; 19:1), thoughts (11:20; 17:20), and life styles (2:15; 28:6).

[101:4]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “know.” The king will not willingly allow perverse individuals to remain in his royal court.

[101:5]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “[one who has] pride of eyes and wideness [i.e., arrogance] of heart, him I will not endure.”

[101:6]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “my eyes [are] on the faithful of the land.”

[101:6]  ⁴⁸ tn The Hebrew text simply reads, “in order to live with me.”

[101:6]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “one who walks in the way of integrity, he will minister to me.”

[101:7]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “he will not live in the midst of my house, one who does deceit.”

[101:7]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “one who speaks lies will not be established before my eyes.”