2 Tawarikh 7:17

7:17 You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ¹ 

2 Tawarikh 32:5

32:5 Hezekiah ²  energetically rebuilt ³  every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall, ⁴  and fortified the terrace of the City of David. ⁵  He made many weapons and shields.

2 Tawarikh 33:8

33:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, ⁶  provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.”

[7:17]  ¹ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.”

[7:17]  sn Verse 17 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 18.

[32:5]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:5]  ³ tn Heb “strengthened himself and built.”

[32:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and outside the wall another one.”

[32:5]  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.

[33:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I established for their fathers.”