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2 Chronicles 7:22

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7:22 Others will then answer, 1  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, 2  who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 3  That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 30:8

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30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn 4  like your fathers! Submit 5  to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. 6 

2 Chronicles 33:3

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33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 7  and worshiped 8  them.
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[7:22]  1 tn Heb “and they will say.”

[7:22]  2 tn Heb “fathers.”

[7:22]  3 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

[30:8]  4 tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).

[30:8]  5 tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.

[30:8]  6 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[33:3]  7 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿvahashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

[33:3]  8 tn Or “served.”



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