2:11 King Huram 1 of Tyre sent this letter to Solomon: “Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king.”
6:12 He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
7:1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven 12 and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the Lord’s splendor filled the temple.
12:12 So when Rehoboam 14 humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; 15 Judah experienced some good things. 16
14:6 He built fortified cities throughout Judah, for the land was at rest and there was no war during those years; the Lord gave him peace.
17:3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor 23 David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. 24 He did not seek the Baals,
19:8 In Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites, priests, and Israelite family leaders to judge on behalf of the Lord 30 and to settle disputes among the residents of Jerusalem. 31
20:5 Jehoshaphat stood before the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem 33 at the Lord’s temple, in front of the new courtyard.
20:18 Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah 34 and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord and worshiped him. 35
20:22 When they began to shout and praise, the Lord suddenly attacked 36 the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir 37 who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.
23:12 When Athaliah heard the royal guard 42 shouting and praising the king, she joined the crowd 43 at the Lord’s temple.
23:16 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the Lord. 44
27:3 He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel. 51
29:3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.
35:1 Josiah observed a Passover festival for the Lord in Jerusalem. 83 They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month. 35:2 He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.
35:26 The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign, including the faithful acts he did in obedience to what is written in the law of the Lord 85
36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen 88 years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. 89 He did evil in the sight of 90 the Lord.
36:15 The Lord God of their ancestors 91 continually warned them through his messengers, 92 for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place.
1 tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 12). Some medieval Hebrew
2 tc Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45.
3 tn Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
4 tn Heb “were not able to stand to serve.”
5 tn The Hebrew text reads, “fulfilled by his hand,” but the phrase “by his hand” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
6 tn The Hebrew text reads, “promised by his mouth,” but the phrase “by his mouth” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
7 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”
8 tn Heb “turn to.”
9 tn Heb “by listening to.”
10 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
11 tn Heb “praying before you.”
12 tn Or “the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
13 tn Heb “to the chamber of the runners.”
14 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15 tn Heb “the anger of the
16 tn Heb “and also in Judah there were good things.”
17 tn Heb “Do you not know that the
sn For other references to a “covenant of salt,” see Lev 2:13 and Num 18:19.
18 tn Heb “at that time.”
19 tn Heb “and he allowed himself to be found by them.”
20 tn Or “In that day.”
21 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (tso’n) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.
22 tn Heb “whether small or great.”
23 tn Heb “father.”
24 tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”
25 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
26 tn Heb “Listen.”
27 tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”
28 tn Here בָּעַר (ba’ar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.
29 tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek the
30 tn Heb “for the judgment of the
31 tc Heb “and to conduct a case [or “for controversy”], and they returned [to] Jerusalem.” Some emend וַיָּשֻׁבוּ (vayyashuvu, “and they returned”) to וַיֵּשְׁבוּ (vayyeshÿvu, “and they lived [in]”). The present translation assumes an emendation to יֹשְׁבֵי (yoshÿvey, “residents of”).
32 tn Heb “and he set his face to seek the
33 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
34 tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “Judah” in v. 15.
35 tn Heb “to worship the
36 tn Heb “set ambushers against.” This is probably idiomatic here for launching a surprise attack.
37 tn Heb “the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir.”
38 tn Heb “and the terror of God [or “a great terror”] was upon all the kingdoms of the lands.” It is uncertain if אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) should be understood as a proper name here (“God”), or taken in an idiomatic superlative sense.
39 tn Heb “house.”
40 tn Or “covenant.”
41 tn Heb “which he made to David, just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” Here “lamp” is metaphorical, symbolizing the Davidic dynasty.
42 tn Heb “and Athaliah heard the sound of the people, the runners.”
43 tn Heb “she came to the people.”
44 tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and [between] all the people and [between] the king, to become a people for the
45 tn Heb “and he sent among them prophets to bring them back to the
46 tn Heb “testified among.”
47 tn Heb “sought.”
48 tn Heb “in the days of.”
49 tn Heb “in the days of his seeking.”
50 tn Or “prosper.”
51 tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.
52 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 25).
53 tn Heb “saying.”
54 tn Heb “to enslave as male servants and female servants.”
55 tn Heb “sons.”
56 tn Heb “for the rage of the anger of the
57 tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).
58 tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”
59 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention.
60 tn Heb “to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and sacrificers.”
61 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).
62 tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).
63 tn Heb “also in Judah the hand of God was to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and the officials by the word of the
64 tn Heb “everyone [who] has prepared his heart to seek God.”
65 tn Heb “and not according to the purification of the holy place.”
66 tn Heb “and it was heard with their voice.” BDB 1034 s.v. שָׁמַע Niph.4 interprets this to mean “hearing was granted to their voice.” It is possible that the name יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the
67 tn Heb “said to.”
68 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
69 tn Heb “might hold firmly.”
70 tn Heb “they blessed the
71 tn Or perhaps, “offerings.”
72 tn Heb “lifted up in the eyes of.”
73 tn Or “distress.”
74 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
75 tn Heb “appeased the face of the
76 tn Or “greatly.”
77 tn Heb “fathers.”
78 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
79 tn Heb “and walked in the ways of David his father.”
80 tn Heb “doer[s] of the work.”
81 tn Heb “and they gave it to the doers of the work who were working in the house of the
82 tn Heb “that was found in the house of the
83 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
84 tn Heb “and they put aside the burnt offering[s] to give them to the divisions of the house of the fathers for the sons of the people to bring near to the
85 tn Heb “and his faithful acts according to what is written in the law of the
86 tn Or “temple.”
87 tn Heb “in Babylon.” Repeating the proper name “Babylon” here would be redundant in contemporary English, so “there” has been used in the translation.
88 tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”
89 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
90 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
91 tn Heb “fathers.”
92 tn Heb “and the
93 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
94 tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the
95 tn Or “accepted.”
96 sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile.
97 sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.
98 tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”
sn Cyrus’ edict (see vv. 22-23) occurred about fifty years after the fall of Jerusalem in 586