2 Chronicles 1:8

1:8 Solomon replied to God, “You demonstrated ¹  great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.

2 Chronicles 6:7

6:7 Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel. ² 

2 Chronicles 6:15

6:15 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ³  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 7:17

7:17 You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 20:32

20:32 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 25:3

25:3 When he had secured control of the kingdom, ⁷  he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 33:23

33:23 He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done. ⁹  Amon was guilty of great sin. ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Heb “did.”

² tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.”

sn On the significance of the Lord’s “name,” see the note on the word “live” in v. 5.

³ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

⁴ tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”

⁵ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.”

sn Verse 17 is actually a lengthy protasis (“if” section) of a conditional sentence, the apodosis (“then” section) of which appears in v. 18.

⁶ tn Heb “he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.”

⁷ tn Heb “when the kingdom was secure upon him.”

⁸ tn Heb “he killed his servants, the ones who had struck down the king, his father.”

⁹ tn Heb “as Manasseh his father had humbled himself.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “for he, Amon, multiplied guilt.”