2 Chronicles 2:16

2:16 we will get all the timber you need from Lebanon and bring it in raft-like bundles by sea to Joppa. You can then haul it on up to Jerusalem.”

2 Chronicles 6:24

6:24 “If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, and pray for your help before you in this temple,

2 Chronicles 6:30

6:30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives. (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.)

2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, 10  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, 11  and repudiate their sinful practices, 12  then I will respond 13  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 14 

2 Chronicles 7:20

7:20 then I will remove you 15  from my land I have given you, 16  I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, 17  and I will make you 18  an object of mockery and ridicule 19  among all the nations.

2 Chronicles 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer, 20  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, 21  who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 22  That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 18:16

18:16 Micaiah 23  replied, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”

2 Chronicles 18:29

18:29 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter 24  the battle; but you wear your royal attire.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and they entered the battle.

2 Chronicles 20:14

20:14 Then in the midst of the assembly, the Lord’s Spirit came upon Jachaziel son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendant of Asaph.

2 Chronicles 29:15-16

29:15 They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word 25  of the Lord. 29:16 The priests then entered the Lord’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside. 26  The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 29:22

29:22 They slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it on the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and splashed the blood on the altar; next they slaughtered the lambs and splashed the blood on the altar.

2 Chronicles 29:24

29:24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed 27  that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.

2 Chronicles 32:12

32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 28  the Lord’s 29  high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”

2 Chronicles 32:26

32:26 But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. 30 

2 Chronicles 33:13

33:13 When he prayed to the Lord, 31  the Lord 32  responded to him 33  and answered favorably 34  his cry for mercy. The Lord 35  brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.

2 Chronicles 34:28

34:28 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. 36  You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.


tn Heb “and we will cut down trees from Lebanon according to all your need.”

tn Heb “to you,” but this phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons – it is somewhat redundant.

tn Or “on rafts.” See the note at 1 Kgs 5:9.

tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.

tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 28-30a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

10 tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

11 tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

12 tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

13 tn Heb “hear.”

14 sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

15 tn Heb “them.” The switch from the second to the third person pronoun is rhetorically effective, for it mirrors God’s rejection of his people – he has stopped addressing them as “you” and begun addressing them as “them.” However, the switch is awkward and confusing in English, so the translation maintains the direct address style.

16 tn Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.

17 tc Instead of “I will throw away,” the parallel text in 1 Kgs 9:7 has “I will send away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.

tn Heb “and this temple which I consecrated for my name I will throw away from before my face.”

18 tn Heb “him,” which appears in context to refer to Israel (i.e., “you” in direct address). Many translations understand the direct object of the verb “make” to be the temple (NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “it”).

19 tn Heb “and I will make him [i.e., Israel] a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

20 tn Heb “and they will say.”

21 tn Heb “fathers.”

22 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

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

24 tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives (see IBHS 594 §35.5.2a). Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.

25 tn Heb “words” (plural).

26 tn Heb “in the temple of the Lord.”

27 tn Heb “said.”

28 tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.

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

30 tn Heb “and Hezekiah humbled himself in the height of his heart, he and the residents of Jerusalem, and the anger of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.”

31 tn Heb “him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

33 tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”

34 tn Heb “heard.”

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

36 tn Heb “Therefore, behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”