2 Chronicles 2:6
2:6 Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky 1 and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him. 2
2 Chronicles 20:9
20:9 ‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, 3 judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. 4 We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will 5 hear and deliver us.’
2 Chronicles 23:14
23:14 Jehoiada the priest sent out the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, and ordered them, “Bring her outside the temple to the guards. 6 Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple. 7
2 Chronicles 23:18
23:18 Jehoiada then assigned the duties of the Lord’s temple to the priests, the Levites whom David had assigned to the Lord’s temple. They were responsible for offering burnt sacrifices to the Lord with joy and music, according to 8 the law of Moses and the edict of David.
2 Chronicles 29:17
29:17 On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the Lord’s temple. 9 For eight more days they consecrated the Lord’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished.
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. 10
2 Chronicles 34:8
34:8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple. 11 He sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city official, and Joah son of Joahaz the secretary to repair the temple of the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 34:30
34:30 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 36:18
36:18 He carried away to Babylon all the items in God’s temple, whether large or small, as well as what was in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king and his officials.
1 tn Or “heavens” (also in v. 12). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
2 tn Heb “Who retains strength to build for him a house, for the heavens and the heavens of heavens do not contain him? And who am I that I should build for him a house, except to sacrifice before him?”
3 tn Heb “sword.”
4 tn Heb “for your name is in this house.” The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name. In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.
5 tn Or “so that you may.”
6 tn Heb “ranks.”
7 tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Do not put her to death in the house of the Lord.’”
8 tn Heb “as it is written in.”
9 tn Heb “porch of the Lord.”
10 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”).
11 tn Heb “to purify the land and the house.”