2 Chronicles 10:15

10:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events¹ so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made² through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

2 Chronicles 15:9

15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers³ from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live⁴ when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

2 Chronicles 16:7

16:7 At that time Hanani the prophet⁵ visited King Asa of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied on the king of Syria and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

2 Chronicles 18:5

18:5 So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?”⁶ They said, “Attack! God⁷ will hand it over to the king.”

2 Chronicles 20:12

20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don’t know what we should do; we look to you for help.”⁸

2 Chronicles 24:27

24:27 The list of Joash’s⁹ sons, the many prophetic oracles pertaining to him, and the account of his building project on God’s temple are included in the record of the Scroll of the Kings.¹⁰ His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 25:24

25:24 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom, the riches in the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 30:5

30:5 So they sent an edict¹¹ throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people¹² to come and observe a Passover for the Lord God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law.¹³

2 Chronicles 31:6

31:6 The Israelites and people of Judah¹⁴ who lived in the cities of Judah also contributed a tenth of their cattle and sheep, as well as a tenth of the holy items consecrated to the Lord their God. They brought them and placed them in many heaps.¹⁵

2 Chronicles 32:8

32:8 He has with him mere human strength,¹⁶ but the Lord our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!” The army¹⁷ was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.

2 Chronicles 32:11

32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power¹⁸ of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst!¹⁹

2 Chronicles 32:13

32:13 Are you not aware of what I and my predecessors²⁰ have done to all the nations of the surrounding lands? Have the gods of the surrounding lands actually been able to rescue their lands from my power?²¹

2 Chronicles 34:8

34:8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple.²² He sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city official, and Joah son of Joahaz the secretary to repair the temple of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim’s Reign

36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.²³ He did evil in the sight of²⁴ the Lord his God.

¹tn Heb “because this turn of events was from God.”

²tn Heb “so that the Lord might bring to pass his word which he spoke.”

³tn Or “resident aliens.”

⁴tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”

⁵tn Heb “the seer.”

⁶tn Heb “Should we go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”

⁷tn 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.

⁸tn Heb “for [or “indeed”] upon you are our eyes.”

⁹tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰tn Heb “And his sons and the abundance of the oracle[s] against him, and the founding of the house of God, look are they not written on the writing of the scroll of the kings?”

¹¹tn Heb “and they caused to stand a word to cause a voice to pass through.”

¹²tn The words “summoning the people” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹³tn Heb “because not for abundance had they done as written.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and the sons of Israel and Judah.”

¹⁵tn Heb “heaps, heaps.” Repetition of the noun draws attention to the large number of heaps.

¹⁶tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”

¹⁷tn Or “people.”

¹⁸tn Heb “hand.”

¹⁹tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’

²⁰tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 14, 15), but in this context the term does not necessarily refer to Sennacherib’s ancestors, but to his predecessors on the Assyrian throne.

²¹tn Heb “hand.”

²²tn Heb “to purify the land and the house.”

²³map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²⁴tn Heb “in the eyes of.”