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2 Chronicles 20:2
New English Translation

2 Messengers[a] arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, “A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea,[b] from the direction of Edom.[c] Look, they are in Hazazon Tamar (that is, En Gedi).”

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  1. 2 Chronicles 20:2 tn Heb “they”; the implied referent (messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. 2 Chronicles 20:2 tn Heb “the Sea”; in context (“from the direction of Edom”) this must refer to the Dead Sea, which has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. NEB, NLT).
  3. 2 Chronicles 20:2 tc Most Hebrew mss, the LXX, and Vulgate read “from Aram” (i.e., Syria), but this should be emended to “Edom,” which is the reading of one Hebrew ms and the Old Latin.
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