6:24 “If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy 5 because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, 6 and pray for your help 7 before you in this temple,
6:32 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your great reputation 11 and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds; 12 they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.
6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 13 and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 14
7:19 “But if you people 27 ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, 28 and decide to serve and worship other gods, 29
10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 30 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 31 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
19:4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. 34 He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow 35 the Lord God of their ancestors. 36
24:23 At the beginning 45 of the year the Syrian army attacked 46 Joash 47 and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus.
25:14 When Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people 52 of Seir and made them his personal gods. 53 He bowed down before them and offered them sacrifices. 25:15 The Lord was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why are you following 54 these gods 55 that could not deliver their own people from your power?” 56
32:9 Afterward King Sennacherib of Assyria, while attacking Lachish with all his military might, sent his messengers 62 to Jerusalem. The message was for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of 63 Judah who were in Jerusalem. It read:
35:7 From his own royal flocks and herds, Josiah supplied the people with 30,000 lambs and goats for the Passover sacrifice, as well as 3,000 cattle. 68 35:8 His officials also willingly contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of God’s temple, supplied 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 cattle.
1 tn Heb “made.”
2 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
3 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
4 tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”
5 tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”
6 tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”
7 tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”
8 tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.
9 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.
10 tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”
11 tn Heb “your great name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your great reputation
12 tn Heb “and your strong hand and your outstretched arm.”
13 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
14 tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”
15 tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”
17 tn Or “done wrong.”
18 tn Heb “Solomon held the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel was with him, a very great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the wadi of Egypt.”
19 tn Or “if.”
20 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
21 tn Heb “the land,” which stands here by metonymy for the vegetation growing in it.
22 tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.
23 tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.
24 tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”
25 tn Heb “hear.”
26 sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.
27 tn The Hebrew pronoun is plural, suggesting that Solomon and all Israel (or perhaps Solomon and his successors) are in view. To convey this to the English reader, the translation “you people” has been employed.
28 tn Heb “which I placed before you.”
29 tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
30 tn Heb “stood before.”
31 tn Heb “saying.”
32 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from God.”
33 tn Heb “so that the
34 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
35 tn Heb “and turned them back to.”
36 tn Heb “fathers.”
37 tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the people of Judah.
38 tn Heb “to seek from the
39 tn Heb “to seek the
40 tn Or “consulted.”
41 tn Or “is eternal.”
42 tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”
43 tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”
44 tn Heb “and they gave voice in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the
45 tn Heb “turning.”
46 tn Heb “went up against.”
47 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
48 tn Heb “had sent back from going with him to the battle.”
49 tn Heb “stripped.”
50 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
51 tn Heb “struck down.”
52 tn Heb “sons.”
53 tn Heb “caused them to stand for him as gods.”
54 tn Heb “seeking,” perhaps in the sense of “consulting [an oracle from].”
55 tn Heb “the gods of the people.”
56 tn Heb “hand.”
57 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
58 tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the
59 tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”
60 tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’arets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.
61 tn Heb “land, saying.”
62 tn Heb “servants.”
63 tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.
64 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
65 tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”
66 tn Heb “misled Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.
67 tn Heb “told Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.
68 tn Heb “and Josiah supplied for the sons of the people sheep, lambs and sons of goats, the whole for the Passover sacrifices for everyone who was found according to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand cattle. These were from the property of the king.”
69 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
70 tn Heb “his words.”
71 tn All three verbal forms (“mocked,” “despised,” and “ridiculed”) are active participles in the Hebrew text, indicating continual or repeated action. They made a habit of rejecting God’s prophetic messengers.
72 tn Heb “until the anger of the