2 Chronicles 1:17

1:17 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt, and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria.¹

2 Chronicles 4:3-4

4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches² all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.” 4:4 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.³

2 Chronicles 6:14

6:14 and prayed:⁴ “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth! You maintain covenantal loyalty⁵ to your servants who obey you with sincerity.⁶

2 Chronicles 7:20

7:20 then I will remove you⁷ from my land I have given you,⁸ I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence,⁹ and I will make you¹⁰ an object of mockery and ridicule¹¹ among all the nations.

2 Chronicles 9:12

9:12 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him.¹² Then she left and returned¹³ to her homeland with her attendants.

2 Chronicles 30:22

30:22 Hezekiah expressed his appreciation to all the Levites,¹⁴ who demonstrated great skill in serving the Lord.¹⁵ They feasted for the seven days of the festival,¹⁶ and were making peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 35:20

Josiah’s Reign Ends

35:20 After Josiah had done all this for the temple,¹⁷ King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River.¹⁸ Josiah marched out to oppose him.

¹tn Heb “and they brought up and brought out from Egypt a chariot for 600 silver (pieces), and a horse for 150, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”

²tn Heb “ten every cubit.”

³tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”

⁴tn Heb “said.”

⁵tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.”

⁶tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

⁷tn Heb “them.” The switch from the second to the third person pronoun is rhetorically effective, for it mirrors God’s rejection of his people – he has stopped addressing them as “you” and begun addressing them as “them.” However, the switch is awkward and confusing in English, so the translation maintains the direct address style.

⁸tn Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.

⁹tc Instead of “I will throw away,” the parallel text in 1 Kgs 9:7 has “I will send away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.

tn Heb “and this temple which I consecrated for my name I will throw away from before my face.”

¹⁰tn Heb “him,” which appears in context to refer to Israel (i.e., “you” in direct address). Many translations understand the direct object of the verb “make” to be the temple (NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “it”).

¹¹tn Heb “and I will make him [i.e., Israel] a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

¹²tn Heb “besides what she brought to the king.”

¹³tn Heb “turned and went.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites.” On the meaning of the idiom “speak to the heart of” here, see HALOT 210 s.v. II דבר 8.d.

¹⁵tn Heb “who demonstrated skill [with] good skill for the Lord.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and they ate [during] the appointed time [for] seven days.” מוֹעֵד (mo’ed, “appointed time”) is probably an adverbial accusative of time referring to the festival. However, some understand it as metonymically referring to the food eaten during the festival. See BDB 417 s.v.

¹⁷tn Heb “After all this, [by] which Josiah prepared the temple.”

¹⁸tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.