2 Tawarikh 13:12

13:12 Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you. ¹  You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, ²  for you will not win!”

2 Tawarikh 15:2

15:2 He met ³  Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. ⁴  If you seek him, he will respond to you, ⁵  but if you reject him, he will reject you.

2 Tawarikh 18:12

18:12 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. ⁶  Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success!” ⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 20:15

20:15 He said: “Pay attention, all you people of Judah, ⁸  residents of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat! This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Don’t be afraid and don’t panic ⁹  because of this huge army! For the battle is not yours, but God’s.

2 Tawarikh 20:17

20:17 You will not fight in this battle. Take your positions, stand, and watch the Lord deliver you, ¹⁰  O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ¹¹  Tomorrow march out toward them; the Lord is with you!’”

2 Tawarikh 25:19

25:19 You defeated Edom ¹²  and it has gone to your head. ¹³  Gloat over your success, ¹⁴  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ¹⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 27:5

27:5 He launched a military campaign ¹⁶  against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites paid him 100 talents ¹⁷  of silver, 10,000 kors ¹⁸  of wheat, and 10,000 kors ¹⁹  of barley. The Ammonites also paid this same amount of annual tribute the next two years. ²⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 35:21

35:21 Necho ²¹  sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? ²²  I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. ²³  God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” ²⁴ 

[13:12]  ¹ tn Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”

[13:12]  ² tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18).

[15:2]  ³ tn Heb “went out before.”

[15:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “when you are with him.”

[15:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”

[18:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”

[18:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “let your words be like one of them and speak good.”

[20:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the people of Judah. Unlike the previous instance in v. 13 where infants, wives, and children are mentioned separately, this reference appears to include them all.

[20:15]  ⁹ tn Or perhaps “don’t get discouraged.”

[20:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the deliverance of the Lord with you.”

[20:17]  ¹¹ tn Or perhaps “don’t get discouraged.”

[25:19]  ¹² tn Heb “you say [to yourself], ‘look, you have defeated Edom.’”

[25:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”

[25:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to glorify.”

[25:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

[27:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he fought with.”

[27:5]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).

[27:5]  ¹⁸ sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

[27:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “10,000 kors of wheat and 10,000 of barley.” The unit of measure of the barley is omitted in the Hebrew text, but is understood to be “kors,” the same as the measures of wheat.

[27:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “This the sons of Ammon brought to him, and in the second year and the third.”

[35:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[35:21]  ²² tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

[35:21]  ²³ tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

[35:21]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”