2 Tawarikh 29:24-26

29:24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed ¹  that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.

29:25 King Hezekiah ²  stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, ³  and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.) 29:26 The Levites had ⁴  David’s musical instruments and the priests had trumpets.

2 Tawarikh 29:1

Hezekiah Consecrates the Temple

29:1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ⁵  His mother was Abijah, ⁶  the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Tawarikh 16:4-6

16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ⁷  They conquered ⁸  Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, ⁹  and all the storage cities of Naphtali. 16:5 When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying ¹⁰  Ramah and abandoned the project. ¹¹  16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹²  He used the materials to build up ¹³  Geba and Mizpah.

2 Tawarikh 16:1

16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah, and he established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ¹⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 23:1

23:1 In the seventh year Jehoiada made a bold move. He made a pact ¹⁵  with the officers of the units of hundreds: Azariah son of Jehoram, Ishmael son of Jehochanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.

2 Tawarikh 25:1-3

Amaziah’s Reign

25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ¹⁶  His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem. 25:2 He did what the Lord approved, ¹⁷  but not with wholehearted devotion. ¹⁸ 

25:3 When he had secured control of the kingdom, ¹⁹  he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. ²⁰ 

Nehemia 11:17

11:17 Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, the praise ²¹  leader who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his colleagues; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

Mazmur 134:1--135:3

Psalm 134 ²² 

A song of ascents. ²³ 

134:1 Attention! ²⁴  Praise the Lord,

all you servants of the Lord,

who serve ²⁵  in the Lord’s temple during the night.

134:2 Lift your hands toward the sanctuary

and praise the Lord!

134:3 May the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth,

bless you ²⁶  from Zion! ²⁷ 

Psalm 135 ²⁸ 

135:1 Praise the Lord!

Praise the name of the Lord!

Offer praise, you servants of the Lord,

135:2 who serve ²⁹  in the Lord’s temple,

in the courts of the temple of our God.

135:3 Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good!

Sing praises to his name, for it is pleasant! ³⁰ 

Yeremia 33:11

33:11 Once again there will be sounds ³¹  of joy and gladness and the glad celebrations of brides and grooms. ³²  Once again people will bring their thank offerings to the temple of the Lord and will say, “Give thanks to the Lord who rules over all. For the Lord is good and his unfailing love lasts forever.” ³³  For I, the Lord, affirm ³⁴  that I will restore the land to what it was ³⁵  in days of old.’ ³⁶ 

[29:24]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[29:25]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (King Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[29:25]  ³ tn Or “seer.”

[29:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “stood with” (i.e., stood holding).

[29:1]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[29:1]  ⁶ tn The parallel passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”

[16:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

[16:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “They struck down.”

[16:4]  ⁹ sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

[16:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “building.”

[16:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he caused his work to cease.”

[16:6]  ¹² tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

[16:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he built with them.”

[16:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

[23:1]  ¹⁵ tn Or “covenant.”

[25:1]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[25:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

[25:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “a complete heart.”

[25:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “when the kingdom was secure upon him.”

[25:3]  ²⁰ tn Heb “he killed his servants, the ones who had struck down the king, his father.”

[11:17]  ²¹ tc The translation reads with the Lucianic Greek recension and Vulgate הַתְּהִלָה (hattÿhilah, “the praise”) rather than the MT reading הַתְּחִלָּה (hattÿkhillah, “the beginning”).

[134:1]  ²² sn Psalm 134. The psalmist calls on the temple servants to praise God (vv. 1-2). They in turn pronounce a blessing on the psalmist (v. 3).

[134:1]  ²³ sn The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120-134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 219-21.

[134:1]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Look!”

[134:1]  ²⁵ tn Heb “stand.”

[134:3]  ²⁶ tn The pronominal suffix is second masculine singular, suggesting that the servants addressed in vv. 1-2 are responding to the psalmist.

[134:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “may the Lord bless you from Zion, the maker of heaven and earth.”

[135:1]  ²⁸ sn Psalm 135. The psalmist urges God’s people to praise him because he is the incomparable God and ruler of the world who has accomplished great things for Israel.

[135:2]  ²⁹ tn Heb “stand.”

[135:3]  ³⁰ tn Heb “for [it is] pleasant.” The translation assumes that it is the Lord’s “name” that is pleasant. Another option is to understand the referent of “it” as the act of praising (see Ps 147:1).

[33:11]  ³¹ tn Heb “33:10 Thus says the Lord, ‘There will again be heard in this place of which you are saying [masc. pl.], “It is a ruin without people and without animals,” [that is] in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem which are desolate without people and without inhabitants and without animals 33:11 the sound of….” The long run-on sentence in Hebrew has been broken down to better conform with contemporary English style.

[33:11]  ³² sn What is predicted here is a reversal of the decimation caused by the Babylonian conquest that had been threatened in 7:34; 16:9; 25:10.

[33:11]  ³³ sn This is a common hymnic introduction to both individual songs of thanksgiving (e.g., Ps 118:1) and communal songs of thanksgiving (e.g., Ps 136 where it is a liturgical refrain accompanying a recital of Israel’s early history and of the Lord’s continuing providence).

[33:11]  ³⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[33:11]  ³⁵ tn Or “I will restore the fortunes of the land.”

[33:11]  sn See the study note on Jer 29:18 and compare 29:14; 30:3, 18; 31:23; 32:44; 33:7 for the meaning and usage of this idiom. The promise here repeats that in 33:7.

[33:11]  ³⁶ tn This phrase simply means “as formerly” (BDB 911 s.v. רִאשׁוֹן 3.a). The reference to the “as formerly” must be established from the context. See the usage in Judg 20:32; 1 Kgs 13:6; Isa 1:26.

[33:11]  sn This refers to the reunification of Israel and Judah to the state that they were before the division after Solomon. Compare Jer 3:18; 30:3; 31:27 and see the study note on 30:3.