2 Tawarikh 8:17

8:17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Elat on the coast in the land of Edom.

2 Tawarikh 8:2

8:2 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram ¹  had given him and settled Israelites there.

Kisah Para Rasul 14:22

14:22 They strengthened ²  the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue ³  in the faith, saying, “We must enter the kingdom ⁴  of God through many persecutions.” ⁵ 

Kisah Para Rasul 16:6

Paul’s Vision of the Macedonian Man

16:6 They went through the region of Phrygia ⁶  and Galatia, ⁷  having been prevented ⁸  by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message ⁹  in the province of Asia. ¹⁰ 

[8:2]  ¹ tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 18). Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

[14:22]  ² tn Grk “to Antioch, strengthening.” Due to the length of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences, a new sentence was started here. This participle (ἐπιστηρίζοντες, episthrizonte") and the following one (παρακαλοῦντες, parakalounte") have been translated as finite verbs connected by the coordinating conjunction “and.”

[14:22]  ³ sn And encouraged them to continue. The exhortations are like those noted in Acts 11:23; 13:43. An example of such a speech is found in Acts 20:18-35. Christianity is now characterized as “the faith.”

[14:22]  ⁴ sn This reference to the kingdom of God clearly refers to its future arrival.

[14:22]  ⁵ tn Or “sufferings.”

[16:6]  ⁶ sn Phrygia was a district in central Asia Minor west of Pisidia.

[16:6]  ⁷ sn Galatia refers to either (1) the region of the old kingdom of Galatia in the central part of Asia Minor (North Galatia), or (2) the Roman province of Galatia, whose principal cities in the 1st century were Ancyra and Pisidian Antioch (South Galatia). The exact extent and meaning of this area has been a subject of considerable controversy in modern NT studies.

[16:6]  ⁸ tn Or “forbidden.”

[16:6]  ⁹ tn Or “word.”

[16:6]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.