2 Chronicles 1:9

1:9 Now, Lord God, may your promise ¹  to my father David be realized, ²  for you have made me king over a great nation as numerous as the dust of the earth.

2 Chronicles 2:3

2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram ³  of Tyre: ⁴  “Help me ⁵  as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs ⁶  for the construction of his palace. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 2:17

2:17 Solomon took a census ⁸  of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.

2 Chronicles 3:1

The Building of the Temple

3:1 Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem ⁹  on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan ¹⁰  the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 5:1

5:1 When Solomon had finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God’s temple.

2 Chronicles 10:6

10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ¹¹  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ¹²  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

2 Chronicles 17:2

17:2 He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons ¹³  throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.

2 Chronicles 21:3

21:3 Their father gave them many presents, including silver, gold, and other precious items, along with fortified cities in Judah. But he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

2 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 Jehoram ¹⁴  received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You ¹⁵  have not followed in the footsteps ¹⁶  of your father Jehoshaphat and of ¹⁷  King Asa of Judah,

2 Chronicles 22:4

22:4 He did evil in the sight of ¹⁸  the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they ¹⁹  gave him advice that led to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 24:22

24:22 King Joash disregarded ²⁰  the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s ²¹  son. As Zechariah ²²  was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” ²³ 

2 Chronicles 27:2

27:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. ²⁴  (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) ²⁵  Yet the people were still sinning.

2 Chronicles 33:3

33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ²⁶  and worshiped ²⁷  them.

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¹ tn Heb “you word.”

² tn Or “be firm, established.”

³ tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

⁴ map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

⁵ tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”

⁸ tn Heb “counted.”

⁹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁰ tn In 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (“Aravna”; traditionally “Araunah”). The form of the name found here also occurs in 1 Chr 21:15; 18-28.

¹¹ tn Heb “stood before.”

¹² tn Heb “saying.”

¹³ tn Or perhaps, “governors.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

¹⁵ tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.

¹⁶ tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “in the ways of.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁹ tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.

²⁰ tn Heb “did not remember.”

²¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³ tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.

²⁴ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

²⁵ tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”

²⁶ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

²⁷ tn Or “served.”