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 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer, ³  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, ⁴  who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ⁵  That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 13:15

13:15 and the men of Judah gave ⁶  the battle cry. As the men of Judah gave the battle cry, the Lord struck down Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

2 Chronicles 15:16

15:16 King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother ⁷  from her position as queen mother ⁸  because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 18:2

18:2 and after several years ⁹  went down to visit ¹⁰  Ahab in Samaria. ¹¹  Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle to honor Jehoshaphat and those who came with him. ¹²  He persuaded him to join in an attack ¹³  against Ramoth Gilead.

2 Chronicles 20:16

20:16 Tomorrow march down against them as ¹⁴  they come up the Ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the ravine in front of the Desert of Jeruel.

2 Chronicles 25:14

25:14 When Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people ¹⁵  of Seir and made them his personal gods. ¹⁶  He bowed down before them and offered them sacrifices.

2 Chronicles 25:19

25:19 You defeated Edom ¹⁷  and it has gone to your head. ¹⁸  Gloat over your success, ¹⁹  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 29:30

29:30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms ²¹  of David and Asaph the prophet. ²²  So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.

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 33:3

33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ²⁴  and worshiped ²⁵  them.

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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 Heb “and they will say.”

⁴ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁵ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

⁶ tn Heb “shouted out.”

⁷ tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors.

⁸ tn The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה (gÿvirah) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah.

⁹ tn Heb “at the end of years.”

¹⁰ tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

¹¹ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹² tn Heb “and Ahab slaughtered for him sheep and cattle in abundance, and for the people who were with him.”

¹³ tn Heb “to go up.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “look.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “sons.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “caused them to stand for him as gods.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “you say [to yourself], ‘look, you have defeated Edom.’”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “to glorify.”

²⁰ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

²¹ tn Heb “with the words.”

²² tn Or “seer.”

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

²⁴ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

²⁵ tn Or “served.”