2 Chronicles 2:11

2:11 King Huram¹ of Tyre sent this letter to Solomon: “Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king.”

2 Chronicles 5:5

5:5 The priests and Levites carried the ark, the tent where God appeared to his people,² and all the holy items in the tent.³

2 Chronicles 6:12

6:12 He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

2 Chronicles 6:19

6:19 But respond favorably to⁴ your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer⁵ the desperate prayer⁶ your servant is presenting to you.⁷

2 Chronicles 6:22

6:22 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple,⁸

2 Chronicles 9:25

9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses⁹ and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.¹⁰

2 Chronicles 11:15

11:15 Jeroboam¹¹ appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers¹² and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.¹³

2 Chronicles 12:12

12:12 So when Rehoboam¹⁴ humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him;¹⁵ Judah experienced some good things.¹⁶

2 Chronicles 13:2

13:2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem.¹⁷ His mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah.¹⁸

There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 13:5

13:5 Don’t you realize that the Lord God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal agreement?¹⁹

2 Chronicles 13:22

13:22 The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, including his deeds and sayings,²⁰ are recorded in the writings of the prophet Iddo.

2 Chronicles 14:5

14:5 He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.²¹

2 Chronicles 15:18

15:18 He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.²²

2 Chronicles 18:30

18:30 Now the king of Syria had ordered his chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high ranking officers;²³ fight only the king of Israel!”

2 Chronicles 18:34

18:34 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening as the sun was setting.

2 Chronicles 20:18

20:18 Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah²⁴ and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord and worshiped him.²⁵

2 Chronicles 21:2

Jehoram’s Reign

21:2 His brothers, Jehoshaphat’s sons, were Azariah, Jechiel, Zechariah, Azariahu, Michael, and Shephatiah. All of these were sons of King Jehoshaphat of Israel.²⁶

2 Chronicles 22:2

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two²⁷ years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter²⁸ of Omri.

2 Chronicles 24:1

Joash’s Reign

24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years in Jerusalem.²⁹ His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

2 Chronicles 24:16

24:16 He was buried in the City of David³⁰ with the kings, because he had accomplished good in Israel and for God and his temple.

2 Chronicles 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah,³¹ who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

2 Chronicles 26:13

26:13 They commanded an army of 307,500 skilled and able warriors who were ready to defend³² the king against his enemies.

2 Chronicles 27:1

Jotham’s Reign

27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.³³ His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

2 Chronicles 28:25

28:25 In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the Lord God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 29:3

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.

2 Chronicles 29:10-11

29:10 Now I intend³⁴ to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.³⁵ 29:11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to serve in his presence and offer sacrifices.”³⁶

2 Chronicles 30:19

30:19 everyone who has determined to follow God,³⁷ the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”³⁸

2 Chronicles 30:27

30:27 The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The Lord responded favorably to them³⁹ as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.

2 Chronicles 31:8

31:8 When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the Lord and pronounced blessings on his people Israel.⁴⁰

2 Chronicles 31:12

31:12 they brought in the contributions, tithes,⁴¹ and consecrated items that had been offered.⁴² Konaniah, a Levite, was in charge of all this, assisted by his brother Shimei.

2 Chronicles 31:21

31:21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.⁴³

2 Chronicles 32:14

32:14 Who among all the gods of these nations whom my predecessors annihilated was able to rescue his people from my power?⁴⁴

2 Chronicles 34:2

34:2 He did what the Lord approved⁴⁵ and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps;⁴⁶ he did not deviate to the right or the left.

2 Chronicles 36:1

Jehoahaz’s Reign

36:1 The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.⁴⁷

2 Chronicles 36:7

36:7 Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace⁴⁸ there.⁴⁹

2 Chronicles 36:12

36:12 He did evil in the sight of⁵⁰ the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, the Lord’s spokesman.

2 Chronicles 36:20

36:20 He deported to Babylon all who escaped the sword. They served him and his sons until the Persian kingdom rose to power.

¹tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 12). 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.

²tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”

sn See Exod 33:7-11.

³tn Heb “and they carried the ark of the Lord…. The priests and the Levites carried them.”

⁴tn Heb “turn to.”

⁵tn Heb “by listening to.”

⁶tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”

⁷tn Heb “praying before you.”

⁸tn Heb “and if the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.”

⁹tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”

¹⁰tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”

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¹¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹²tn Heb “for the high places.”

¹³tn Heb “and for the goats and for the calves he had made.”

¹⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵tn Heb “the anger of the Lord turned from him and did not destroy completely.”

¹⁶tn Heb “and also in Judah there were good things.”

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¹⁸tn The parallel text in 1 Kgs 15:1 identifies his mother as “Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom” [=Absalom, 2 Chr 11:20). Although most English versions identify the mother’s father as Uriel of Gibeah, a number of English versions substitute the name “Maacah” here for the mother (e.g., NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT).

¹⁹tn Heb “Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel has given kingship to David over Israel permanently, to him and to his sons [by] a covenant of salt?”

sn For other references to a “covenant of salt,” see Lev 2:13 and Num 18:19.

²⁰tn Heb “and his ways and his words.”

²¹tn Heb “before him.”

²²tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.”

²³tn Heb “small or great.”

²⁴tn 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.

²⁵tn Heb “to worship the Lord.”

²⁶sn A number of times in 2 Chronicles “Israel” is used instead of the more specific “Judah”; see 2 Chr 12:6; 23:2). In the interest of consistency some translations (e.g., NAB, NRSV) substitute “Judah” for “Israel” here.

²⁷tc Heb “forty-two,” but the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 8:26 reads “twenty-two” along with some mss of the LXX and the Syriac.

²⁸tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.

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³⁰sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

³¹tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

³²tn Heb “help.”

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³⁴tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”

³⁵tn 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.

³⁶tn Heb “to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and sacrificers.”

³⁷tn Heb “everyone [who] has prepared his heart to seek God.”

³⁸tn Heb “and not according to the purification of the holy place.”

³⁹tn 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 Lord”) has been accidentally omitted.

⁴⁰tn Heb “they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.”

⁴¹tn Heb “tenth.”

⁴²tn Heb “and holy things in faithfulness.”

⁴³tn Heb “and in all the work which he began with regard to the service of the house of God and with respect to the law and with respect to the commandment, to seek his God; with all his heart he acted and he succeeded.”

⁴⁴tn Heb “hand.”

⁴⁵tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

⁴⁶tn Heb “and walked in the ways of David his father.”

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⁴⁸tn Or “temple.”

⁴⁹tn Heb “in Babylon.” Repeating the proper name “Babylon” here would be redundant in contemporary English, so “there” has been used in the translation.

⁵⁰tn Heb “in the eyes of.”