2 Chronicles 30:12

Context
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.¹

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Context

8:2 Obey the king’s command,²

because you took³ an oath before God⁴ to be loyal to him.⁵

Romans 13:5

Context
13:5 Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath of the authorities⁶ but also because of your conscience.⁷

[30:12] ¹tn 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.”

[8:2] ²tc The Leningrad Codex (the basis of BHS) reads אֲנִי (’ani, 1st person common singular independent personal pronoun): “I obey the king’s command.” Other medieval Hebrew mss and all the versions (LXX, Vulgate, Targum, Syriac Peshitta) preserve an alternate textual tradition of the definite accusative marker אֶת־ (’et) introducing the direct object: אֶת־פִּי־מֶלֶךְ שְׁמוֹר (’et-pi-melekh shÿmor, “Obey the command of the king”). External evidence supports the alternate textual tradition. The MT is guilty of simple orthographic confusion between similar looking letters. The BHS editors and the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project adopt אֶת־ as the original reading. See D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 3:582–83.

[8:2] ³tn The phrase “you took” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for smoothness.

[8:2] ⁴tn The genitive-construct שְׁבוּעַת אֱלֹהִים (shÿvu’at ’elohim, “an oath of God”) functions as a genitive of location (“an oath before God”) or an adjectival genitive of attribute (“a supreme oath”).

[8:2] ⁵tn The words “to be loyal to him” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[13:5] ⁶tn Grk “its wrath”; the referent (the governing authorities) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:5] ⁷tn Grk “because of (the) conscience,” but the English possessive “your” helps to show whose conscience the context implies.