2 Chronicles 2:3

2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram¹ of Tyre:² “Help me³ as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs⁴ for the construction of his palace.⁵

2 Chronicles 7:21

7:21 As for this temple, which was once majestic,⁶ everyone who passes by it will be shocked and say, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’

2 Chronicles 9:6

9:6 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story!⁷ Your wisdom surpasses what was reported to me.

2 Chronicles 16:8

16:8 Did not the Cushites and Libyans have a huge army with chariots and a very large number of horsemen? But when you relied on the Lord, he handed them over to you!

2 Chronicles 16:12

16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease.⁸ Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors.⁹

2 Chronicles 18:23

18:23 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?”

2 Chronicles 21:6

21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter.¹⁰ He did evil in the sight of¹¹ the Lord.

2 Chronicles 21:19

21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death.¹² His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors.¹³

2 Chronicles 22:4

22:4 He did evil in the sight of¹⁴ the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they¹⁵ gave him advice that led to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 28:1

Ahaz’s Reign

28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.¹⁶ He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David.¹⁷

2 Chronicles 28:27

28:27 Ahaz passed away¹⁸ and was buried in the City of David;¹⁹ they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 29:6-7

29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of²⁰ the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned²¹ away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him.²² 29:7 They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 32:30

32:30 Hezekiah dammed up the source of the waters of the Upper Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the City of David.²³ Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.

2 Chronicles 33:22

33:22 He did evil in the sight of²⁴ the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped²⁵ them.

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.²⁶ He did evil in the sight of²⁷ the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 36:17

36:17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered²⁸ their young men in their temple.²⁹ He did not spare³⁰ young men or women, or even the old and aging. God³¹ handed everyone over to him.

¹tn Heb “Huram.” 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.

²map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

³tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”

⁶tn Heb “and this house which was high/elevated.” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”

⁷tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”

⁸tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”

⁹tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the Lord, only the healers.

¹⁰tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

¹¹tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹²tn 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.”

¹³tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”

¹⁴tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁵tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.

¹⁶map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁷tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.”

¹⁸tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹⁹sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

²⁰tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²¹tn Heb “turned their faces.”

²²tn Heb “and turned the back.”

²³sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

²⁴tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²⁵tn Or “served.”

²⁶map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²⁷tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²⁸tn Heb “killed with the sword.”

²⁹tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”

³⁰tn Or “show compassion to.”

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