2 Tawarikh 9:4

9:4 the food in his banquet hall, ¹  his servants and attendants ²  in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, ³  she was amazed. ⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 21:12

21:12 Jehoram ⁵  received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You ⁶  have not followed in the footsteps ⁷  of your father Jehoshaphat and of ⁸  King Asa of Judah,

[9:4]  ¹ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[9:4]  ² tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[9:4]  ³ tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (’aliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (’olato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.

[9:4]  ⁴ tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[21:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.

[21:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the ways of.”