2 Chronicles 12:13

12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; ¹  he ²  was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. ³  Rehoboam’s ⁴  mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ⁵  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ⁶  returned home humiliated. ⁷  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ⁸  struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 33:7

33:7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. ⁹ 

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¹ tn Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”

² tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

³ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Or “an angel.”

⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

⁸ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

⁹ tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name permanently” (or perhaps “forever”).