2 Chronicles 34:15

34:15 Hilkiah informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.

2 Chronicles 34:18-19

34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king. 34:19 When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

2 Chronicles 34:24

34:24 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.

Exodus 24:7

24:7 He took the Book of the Covenant ¹  and read it aloud ²  to the people, and they said, “We are willing to do and obey ³  all that the Lord has spoken.”

Exodus 24:2

24:2 Moses alone may come ⁴  near the Lord, but the others ⁵  must not come near, ⁶  nor may the people go up with him.”

Exodus 23:2

23:2 “You must not follow a crowd ⁷  in doing evil things; ⁸  in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice, ⁹ 

Exodus 23:21

23:21 Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name ¹⁰  is in him.

Jeremiah 31:31-32

31:31 “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, ¹¹  “when I will make a new covenant ¹²  with the people of Israel and Judah. ¹³  31:32 It will not be like the old ¹⁴  covenant that I made with their ancestors ¹⁵  when I delivered them ¹⁶  from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” ¹⁷  says the Lord. ¹⁸ 

[24:7]  ¹ tn The noun “book” would be the scroll just written containing the laws of chaps. 20-23. On the basis of this scroll the covenant would be concluded here. The reading of this book would assure the people that it was the same that they had agreed to earlier. But now their statement of willingness to obey would be more binding, because their promise would be confirmed by a covenant of blood.

[24:7]  ² tn Heb “read it in the ears of.”

[24:7]  ³ tn A second verb is now added to the people’s response, and it is clearly an imperfect and not a cohortative, lending support for the choice of desiderative imperfect in these commitments – “we want to obey.” This was their compliance with the covenant.

[24:2]  ⁴ tn The verb is a perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive; it and the preceding perfect tense follow the imperative, and so have either a force of instruction, or, as taken here, are the equivalent of an imperfect tense (of permission).

[24:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “they.”

[24:2]  ⁶ tn Now the imperfect tense negated is used; here the prohibition would fit (“they will not come near”), or the obligatory (“they must not”) in which the subjects are obliged to act – or not act in this case.

[23:2]  ⁷ tn The word רָבִּים (rabbim), here rendered “crowd,” is also used infrequently to refer to the “mighty,” people of importance in society (Job 35:9; cf. Lev 19:15).

[23:2]  ⁸ tn For any individual to join a group that is bent on acting wickedly would be a violation of the Law and would incur personal responsibility.

[23:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “you will not answer in a lawsuit to turn after the crowd to turn.” The form translated “agrees with” (Heb “to turn after”) is a Qal infinitive construct from נָטָה (natah); the same root is used at the end of the verse but as a Hiphil infinitive construct, “to pervert [justice].”

[23:21]  ¹⁰ sn This means “the manifestation of my being” is in him (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 247). Driver quotes McNeile as saying, “The ‘angel’ is Jehovah Himself ‘in a temporary descent to visibility for a special purpose.’” Others take the “name” to represent Yahweh’s “power” (NCV) or “authority” (NAB, CEV).

[31:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:31]  ¹² tn Or “a renewed covenant” (also in vv. 22-23).

[31:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “the house of Israel and the house of Judah.”

[31:32]  ¹⁴ tn The word “old” is not in the text but is implicit in the use of the word “new.” It is supplied in the translation for greater clarity.

[31:32]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”

[31:32]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “when I took them by the hand and led them out.”

[31:32]  ¹⁷ tn Or “I was their master.” See the study note on 3:14.

[31:32]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”