2 Chronicles 2:8

2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum ¹  trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept ²  at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants

2 Chronicles 6:24

6:24 “If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ³  because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ⁴  and pray for your help ⁵  before you in this temple,

2 Chronicles 6:30

6:30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ⁶  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives. ⁷  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 6:34

6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ⁹  and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 6:37

6:37 When your people ¹¹  come to their senses ¹²  in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray ¹³ , we have done evil!’

2 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 Jehoram ¹⁴  received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You ¹⁵  have not followed in the footsteps ¹⁶  of your father Jehoshaphat and of ¹⁷  King Asa of Judah,

2 Chronicles 30:8

30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn ¹⁸  like your fathers! Submit ¹⁹  to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. ²⁰ 

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¹ tn This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12; cf. NLT. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.

² tn Heb “know.”

³ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

⁴ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

⁵ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

⁶ tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.

⁷ 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.

⁸ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

⁹ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”

¹¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”

¹³ tn Or “done wrong.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

¹⁵ tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.

¹⁶ tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “in the ways of.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).

¹⁹ tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.

²⁰ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.