2 Chronicles 3:15

3:15 In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length ¹  of 52½ feet, ²  with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high. ³ 

2 Chronicles 4:13

4:13 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

2 Chronicles 6:30

6:30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ⁴  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives. ⁵  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 9:16

9:16 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; 300 measures ⁷  of gold were used for each of those shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 9:18

9:18 There were six steps leading up to the throne, and a gold footstool was attached to the throne. ⁹  The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 11:4

11:4 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” ¹¹  They obeyed the Lord and called off the attack against Jeroboam. ¹² 

2 Chronicles 23:7

23:7 The Levites must surround the king. Each of you must hold his weapon in his hand. Whoever tries to enter the temple ¹³  must be killed. You must accompany the king wherever he goes.” ¹⁴ 

2 Chronicles 23:10

23:10 He placed the men at their posts, each holding his weapon in his hand. They lined up from the south side of the temple to the north side and stood near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king. ¹⁵ 

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¹ sn The figure given here appears to refer to the combined length of both pillars (perhaps when laid end-to-end on the ground prior to being set up; cf. v. 17); the figure given for the height of the pillars in 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21 is half this (i.e., eighteen cubits).

² tc The Syriac reads “eighteen cubits” (twenty-seven feet). This apparently reflects an attempt at harmonization with 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21.

³ tn Heb “and he made before the house two pillars, thirty-five cubits [in] length, and the plated capital which was on its top [was] five cubits.” The significance of the measure “thirty-five cubits” (52.5 feet or 15.75 m, assuming a cubit of 18 inches) for the “length” of the pillars is uncertain. According to 1 Kgs 7:15, each pillar was eighteen cubits (27 feet or 8.1 m) high. Perhaps the measurement given here was taken with the pillars lying end-to-end on the ground before they were set up.

⁴ tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.

⁵ 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.

⁶ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

⁷ tn The Hebrew text has simply “300,” with no unit of measure given.

⁸ sn This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest. See 1 Kgs 7:2.

⁹ tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:19 has instead “and the back of it was rounded on top.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”

¹¹ tn Heb “for his thing is from me.”

¹² tn Heb “and they heard the words of the Lord and returned from going against Jeroboam.”

¹³ tn Heb “house.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and be with the king in his coming out and in his going out.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and he stationed all the people, each with his weapon in his hand, from the south shoulder of the house to the north shoulder of the house, at the altar and at the house, near the king all around.”