2 Chronicles 1:10

1:10 Now give me wisdom and discernment so I can effectively lead this nation. Otherwise no one is able to make judicial decisions for this great nation of yours.”

2 Chronicles 3:16

3:16 He made ornamental chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments and arranged them within the chains.

2 Chronicles 4:8

4:8 He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls.

2 Chronicles 9:19

9:19 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom.

2 Chronicles 18:19

18:19 The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive King Ahab of Israel, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die there?’ One said this and another that.

2 Chronicles 20:23

20:23 The Ammonites and Moabites attacked the men from Mount Seir and annihilated them. 10  When they had finished off the men 11  of Seir, they attacked and destroyed one another. 12 

2 Chronicles 22:2

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two 13  years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter 14  of Omri.

2 Chronicles 23:4

23:4 This is what you must do. One third of you priests and Levites who are on duty during the Sabbath will guard the doors.

2 Chronicles 23:19

23:19 He posted guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.

2 Chronicles 28:6

28:6 In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. 15 

2 Chronicles 32:19

32:19 They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.


tn The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) following the imperative here indicates purpose/result.

tn Heb “so I may go out before this nation and come in.” The expression “go out…and come in” here means “to lead” (see HALOT 425 s.v. יצא qal.4).

tn Heb “for.” The word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

tn Heb “to judge.”

tn Heb “these numerous people of yours.”

tn The Hebrew text adds here, “in the inner sanctuary,” but the description at this point is of the pillars, not the inner sanctuary.

tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for any kingdom.”

tn Heb “the sons of Ammon and Moab stood against the residents of Mount Seir.”

10 tn Heb “to annihilate and to destroy.”

11 tn Heb “residents.”

12 tn Heb “they helped, each one his fellow, for destruction.” The verb עָזַר (’azar), traditionally understood as the well-attested verb meaning “to help,” is an odd fit in this context. It is possible that it is from a homonymic root, perhaps meaning to “attack.” This root is attested in Ugaritic in a nominal form meaning “young man, warrior, hero.” For a discussion of the proposed root, see HALOT 811 s.v. II עזר.

13 tc Heb “forty-two,” but the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 8:26 reads “twenty-two” along with some mss of the LXX and the Syriac.

14 tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.

15 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 25).