Discovery Box2 Chronicles 5:13
Context5:13 The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the Lord, singing: 1 “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple. 2
2 Chronicles 13:9
Context13:9 But you banished 3 the Lord’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods! 4
2 Chronicles 16:14
Context16:14 He was buried in the tomb he had carved out in the City of David. 5 They laid him to rest on a bier covered with spices and assorted mixtures of ointments. They made a huge bonfire to honor him. 6
2 Chronicles 29:31
Context29:31 Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves 7 to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings 8 to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so 9 brought burnt sacrifices.
[5:13] 1 tn Heb “like one were the trumpeters and the musicians, causing one voice to be heard, praising and giving thanks to the
[5:13] 2 tn Heb “and the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the
[13:9] 3 tn In the Hebrew text this is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Did you not banish?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you did,” the force of which is reflected in the translation “But you banished.”
[13:9] 4 tn Heb “whoever comes to fill his hand with a bull of a son of cattle, and seven rams, and he is a priest to no-gods.”
[16:14] 5 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
[16:14] 6 tn Heb “and they burned for him a large fire, very great.”
[29:31] 7 tn Heb “filled your hand.”
