2 Tawarikh 6:12-13

6:12 He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. 6:13 Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was seven and one-half feet ¹  long, seven and one-half feet ²  wide, and four and one-half feet ³  high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky,

2 Tawarikh 34:31

34:31 The king stood by his pillar ⁴  and renewed ⁵  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ⁶  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ⁷  by carrying out the terms ⁸  of this covenant recorded on this scroll.

2 Tawarikh 34:2

34:2 He did what the Lord approved ⁹  and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; ¹⁰  he did not deviate to the right or the left.

Kisah Para Rasul 19:15-19

19:15 But the evil spirit replied to them, ¹¹  “I know about Jesus ¹²  and I am acquainted with ¹³  Paul, but who are you?” ¹⁴  19:16 Then the man who was possessed by ¹⁵  the evil spirit jumped on ¹⁶  them and beat them all into submission. ¹⁷  He prevailed ¹⁸  against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded. 19:17 This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, ¹⁹  both Jews and Greeks; fear came over ²⁰  them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was praised. ²¹  19:18 Many of those who had believed came forward, ²²  confessing and making their deeds known. ²³  19:19 Large numbers ²⁴  of those who had practiced magic ²⁵  collected their books ²⁶  and burned them up in the presence of everyone. ²⁷  When ²⁸  the value of the books was added up, it was found to total fifty thousand silver coins. ²⁹ 

[6:13]  ¹ tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the length would have been 7.5 feet (2.25 m).

[6:13]  ² tn Heb “five cubits.”

[6:13]  ³ tn Heb “three cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 4.5 feet (1.35 m).

[34:31]  ⁴ tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”

[34:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”

[34:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “walk after.”

[34:31]  ⁷ tn Or “soul.”

[34:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “words.”

[34:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

[34:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and walked in the ways of David his father.”

[19:15]  ¹¹ tn Grk “answered and said to them.” The expression, redundant in English, has been simplified to “replied.”

[19:15]  ¹² tn Grk “Jesus I know about.” Here ᾿Ιησοῦν (Ihsoun) is in emphatic position in Greek, but placing the object first is not normal in contemporary English style.

[19:15]  ¹³ tn BDAG 380 s.v. ἐπίσταμαι 2 has “know, be acquainted with τινά…τὸν Παῦλον Ac 19:15.” Here the translation “be acquainted with” was used to differentiate from the previous phrase which has γινώσκω (ginwskw).

[19:15]  ¹⁴ sn But who are you? This account shows how the power of Paul was so distinct that parallel claims to access that power were denied. In fact, such manipulation, by those who did not know Jesus, was judged (v. 16). The indirect way in which the exorcists made the appeal shows their distance from Jesus.

[19:16]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “in whom the evil spirit was.”

[19:16]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “the man in whom the evil spirit was, jumping on them.” The participle ἐφαλόμενος (efalomeno") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. L&N 15.239 has “ἐφαλόμενος ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐπ᾿ αὐτούς ‘the man jumped on them’ Ac 19:16.”

[19:16]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “and beating them all into submission.” The participle κατακυριεύσας (katakurieusa") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. According to W. Foerster, TDNT 3:1098, the word means “the exercise of dominion against someone, i.e., to one’s own advantage.” These exorcists were shown to be powerless in comparison to Jesus who was working through Paul.

[19:16]  ¹⁸ tn BDAG 484 s.v. ἰσχύω 3 has “win out, prevail…κατά τινος over, against someone Ac 19:16.”

[19:17]  ¹⁹ map For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.

[19:17]  ²⁰ tn Grk “fell on.” BDAG 377 s.v. ἐπιπίπτω 2 has “φόβος ἐ. ἐπί τινα fear came upon someone…Ac 19:17.”

[19:17]  ²¹ tn Or “exalted.”

[19:18]  ²² tn Grk “came”; the word “forward” is supplied in the translation to clarify the meaning and to conform to the contemporary English idiom.

[19:18]  ²³ tn Or “confessing and disclosing their deeds.” BDAG 59 s.v. ἀναγγέλλω 2 has “W. ἐξομολογεῖσθαι: ἀ. τὰς πράξεις αὐτο'ν make their deeds known Ac 19:18.”

[19:18]  sn Making their deeds known. Ephesus was a major pagan religious center with much syncretistic “magical” practice. Coming to Jesus changed the lives and attitudes of these believers, creating a social impact.

[19:19]  ²⁴ tn BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός 4.a has “many, quite a few” for ἱκανοί (Jikanoi) in this verse.

[19:19]  ²⁵ tn On this term see BDAG 800 s.v. περίεργος 2.

[19:19]  ²⁶ tn Or “scrolls.”

[19:19]  ²⁷ tn Or “burned them up publicly.” L&N 14.66 has “‘they brought their books together and burned them up in the presence of everyone’ Ac 19:19.”

[19:19]  ²⁸ tn Grk “and when.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

[19:19]  ²⁹ tn Or “fifty thousand silver drachmas” (about $10,000 US dollars). BDAG 128 s.v. ἀργύριον 2.c states, “ἀργυρίου μυριάδας πέντε 50,000 (Attic silver) drachmas Ac 19:19.” Another way to express the value would be in sheep: One drachma could buy one sheep. So this many drachmas could purchase a huge flock of sheep. A drachma also equals a denarius, or a day’s wage for the average worker. So this amount would be equal to 50,000 work days or in excess of 8,300 weeks of labor (the weeks are calculated at six working days because of the Jewish cultural context). The impact of Christianity on the Ephesian economy was considerable (note in regard to this the concerns expressed in 19:26-27).