2 Chronicles 1:3
1:3 Solomon and the entire assembly went to the worship center 1 in Gibeon, for the tent where they met God 2 was located there, which Moses the Lord’s servant had made in the wilderness.
2 Chronicles 4:4
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 4:6
4:6 He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.”
2 Chronicles 6:32
6:32 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your great reputation 4 and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds; 5 they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.
2 Chronicles 6:34
6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 6 and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 7
2 Chronicles 7:10
7:10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon 8 sent the people home. They left 9 happy and contented 10 because of the good the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 8:8
8:8 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews and they continue in that role to this very day. 11
2 Chronicles 11:4
11:4 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” 12 They obeyed the Lord and called off the attack against Jeroboam. 13
2 Chronicles 14:8
14:8 Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah, equipped with large shields and spears. He also had 280,000 men from Benjamin who carried small shields and were adept archers; they were all skilled warriors.
2 Chronicles 14:13
14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; 14 they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah 15 carried off a huge amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 16:4
16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. 16 They conquered 17 Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, 18 and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
2 Chronicles 18:5
18:5 So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” 19 They said, “Attack! God 20 will hand it over to the king.”
2 Chronicles 18:14
18:14 Micaiah 21 came before the king and the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; they will be handed over to you.” 22
2 Chronicles 18:29
18:29 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter 23 the battle; but you wear your royal attire.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and they entered the battle.
2 Chronicles 20:2
20:2 Messengers 24 arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, “A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea, 25 from the direction of Edom. 26 Look, they are in Hazezon Tamar (that is, En Gedi).”
2 Chronicles 20:4
20:4 The people of Judah 27 assembled to ask for the Lord’s help; 28 they came from all the cities of Judah to ask for the Lord’s help. 29
2 Chronicles 20:10
20:10 Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! 30 When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. 31 They bypassed them and did not destroy them.
2 Chronicles 20:16
20:16 Tomorrow march down against them as 32 they come up the Ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the ravine in front of the Desert of Jeruel.
2 Chronicles 20:24
20:24 When the men of Judah 33 arrived at the observation post overlooking the desert and looked at 34 the huge army, they saw dead bodies on the ground; there were no survivors!
2 Chronicles 21:19
21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. 35 His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. 36
2 Chronicles 22:4
22:4 He did evil in the sight of 37 the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they 38 gave him advice that led to his destruction.
2 Chronicles 23:10
23:10 He placed the men at their posts, each holding his weapon in his hand. They lined up from the south side of the temple to the north side and stood near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king. 39
2 Chronicles 24:18
24:18 They abandoned the temple of the Lord God of their ancestors, 40 and worshiped 41 the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 25:12-13
25:12 The men 42 of Judah captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over. 43 All the captives 44 fell to their death. 45
25:13 Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle 46 raided 47 the cities of Judah from Samaria 48 to Beth Horon. They killed 49 3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 26:11
26:11 Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official.
2 Chronicles 26:20
26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at 50 him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king 51 himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.
2 Chronicles 28:13
28:13 They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the Lord? 52 Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” 53
2 Chronicles 28:18
28:18 The Philistines had raided the cities of Judah in the lowlands 54 and the Negev. They captured and settled in Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its surrounding villages, Timnah and its surrounding villages, and Gimzo and its surrounding villages.
2 Chronicles 28:27
28:27 Ahaz passed away 55 and was buried in the City of David; 56 they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 29:18-19
29:18 They went to King Hezekiah and said: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment.
29:19 We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the Lord.”
2 Chronicles 29:24
29:24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed 57 that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:30
29:30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms 58 of David and Asaph the prophet. 59 So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.
2 Chronicles 30:16
30:16 They stood at their posts according to the regulations outlined in the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests were splashing the blood as the Levites handed it to them. 60
2 Chronicles 30:22
30:22 Hezekiah expressed his appreciation to all the Levites, 61 who demonstrated great skill in serving the Lord. 62 They feasted for the seven days of the festival, 63 and were making peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their ancestors.
2 Chronicles 31:5
31:5 When the edict was issued, 64 the Israelites freely contributed 65 the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount.
2 Chronicles 31:17
31:17 They made disbursements to the priests listed in the genealogical records by their families, and to the Levites twenty years old and up, according to their duties as assigned to their divisions,
2 Chronicles 32:4
32:4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. 66 They reasoned, 67 “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”
2 Chronicles 33:8-9
33:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, 68 provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.”
33:9 But Manasseh misled the people of 69 Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 33:11
33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, 70 bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 34:11
34:11 They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair. 71
2 Chronicles 34:14
34:14 When they took out the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the Lord had given to Moses.
2 Chronicles 34:24
34:24 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 34:28
34:28 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 72 You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.
2 Chronicles 35:14
35:14 Afterward they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering burnt sacrifices and fat portions until evening. The Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.
2 Chronicles 35:25
35:25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.
2 Chronicles 36:14
36:14 All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. 73 They defiled the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:16
36:16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, 74 and ridiculed his prophets. 75 Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. 76
1 tn Or “high place.”
2 tn Heb “the tent of meeting of God.”
3 tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”
4 tn Heb “your great name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your great reputation”).
5 tn Heb “and your strong hand and your outstretched arm.”
6 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
7 tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn The words “they left” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
10 tn Heb “good of heart.”
11 tn Heb “from their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel did not wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a work crew to this day.”
12 tn Heb “for his thing is from me.”
13 tn Heb “and they heard the words of the Lord and returned from going against Jeroboam.”
14 tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”
15 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”
17 tn Heb “They struck down.”
18 sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.
19 tn Heb “Should we go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
20 tn Though Jehoshaphat had requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, yÿhvah, “Yahweh”), the Israelite prophets stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title הָאֱלֹהִים (ha’elohim, “the God”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the 400 are genuine prophets of the Lord.
21 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
22 sn One does not expect Micaiah, having just vowed to speak only what the Lord tells him, to agree with the other prophets and give the king an inaccurate prophecy. Micaiah’s actions became understandable later, when we discover that the Lord desires to deceive the king and lead him to his demise. The Lord even dispatches a lying spirit to deceive Ahab’s prophets. Micaiah can lie to the king because he realizes this lie is from the Lord. It is important to note that in v. 13 Micaiah only vows to speak the word of his God; he does not necessarily say he will tell the truth. In this case the Lord’s word is deliberately deceptive. Only when the king adjures him to tell the truth (v. 15), does Micaiah do so.
23 tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives (see IBHS 594 §35.5.2a). Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.
24 tn Heb “they”; the implied referent (messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25 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).
26 tc Most Hebrew mss read “from Aram” (i.e., Syria), but this must be a corruption of “Edom,” which is the reading of the LXX and Vulgate.
27 tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the people of Judah.
28 tn Heb “to seek from the Lord.” The verb here (בָּקַשׁ, baqash) is different from the one translated “seek” in v. 3 (דָּרַשׁ, darash).
29 tn Heb “to seek the Lord.” The verb here (ָָבּקַשׁ, baqash) is different from the one translated “seek” in v. 3 (דָּרַשׁ, darash).
30 tn Heb “now, look, the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir.”
31 tn Heb “whom you did not allow Israel to enter when they came from the land of Egypt.”
32 tn Heb “look.”
33 tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the men of Judah.
34 tn Heb “turned toward.”
35 tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”
36 tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”
37 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
38 tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.
39 tn Heb “and he stationed all the people, each with his weapon in his hand, from the south shoulder of the house to the north shoulder of the house, at the altar and at the house, near the king all around.”
40 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).
41 tn Heb “served.”
42 tn Heb “sons.”
43 tn Heb “and threw them from the top of the cliff.”
44 tn Heb “all of them.”
45 tn Heb “smashed in pieces.”
46 tn Heb “had sent back from going with him to the battle.”
47 tn Heb “stripped.”
48 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
49 tn Heb “struck down.”
50 tn Heb “turned toward.”
51 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
52 tn Heb “for to the guilt of the Lord upon us you are saying to add to our sins and our guilty deeds.”
53 tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”
54 tn Heb “Shephelah.”
55 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
56 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
57 tn Heb “said.”
58 tn Heb “with the words.”
59 tn Or “seer.”
60 tn Heb “from the hand of the Levites.”
61 tn 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.
62 tn Heb “who demonstrated skill [with] good skill for the Lord.”
63 tn 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.
64 tn Heb “and when the word spread out.”
65 tn Heb “the sons of Israel multiplied.”
66 tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’arets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.
67 tn Heb “land, saying.”
68 tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I established for their fathers.”
69 tn Heb “misled Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.
70 tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”
71 tn Heb “of the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.”
72 tn Heb “Therefore, behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”
73 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
74 tn Heb “his words.”
75 tn All three verbal forms (“mocked,” “despised,” and “ridiculed”) are active participles in the Hebrew text, indicating continual or repeated action. They made a habit of rejecting God’s prophetic messengers.
76 tn Heb “until the anger of the Lord went up against his people until there was no healer.”