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12 Jehoram[a] received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You[b] have not followed in the footsteps[c] of your father Jehoshaphat and of[d] King Asa of Judah,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 21:12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
  2. 2 Chronicles 21:12 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.
  3. 2 Chronicles 21:12 tn Heb “walked in the ways.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 21:12 tn Heb “in the ways of.”