2 Chronicles 19:3-5
New English Translation
3 Nevertheless you have done some good things;[a] you removed[b] the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”[c]
Jehoshaphat Appoints Judges
4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow[d] the Lord God of their ancestors.[e] 5 He appointed judges throughout the land and in each of the fortified cities of Judah.[f]
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- 2 Chronicles 19:3 tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”
- 2 Chronicles 19:3 tn Here בָּעַר (baʿar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.
- 2 Chronicles 19:3 tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek God.”
- 2 Chronicles 19:4 tn Heb “and turned them back to.”
- 2 Chronicles 19:4 tn Heb “fathers.”
- 2 Chronicles 19:5 tn Heb “in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.”
2 Chronicles 19:3-5
New International Version
3 There is, however, some good(A) in you, for you have rid the land of the Asherah poles(B) and have set your heart on seeking God.(C)”
Jehoshaphat Appoints Judges
4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the Lord, the God of their ancestors. 5 He appointed judges(D) in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.
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