21:12 Jehoram22 received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You23 have not followed in the footsteps24 of your father Jehoshaphat and of25 King Asa of Judah,
tnHeb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
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tnHeb “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.