2 Chronicles 4:4
4:4 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. 1
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.”’” 2 They obeyed the Lord and called off the attack against Jeroboam. 3
2 Chronicles 20:2
20:2 Messengers 4 arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, “A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea, 5 from the direction of Edom. 6 Look, they are in Hazezon Tamar (that is, En Gedi).”
2 Chronicles 20:10
20:10 Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! 7 When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. 8 They bypassed them and did not destroy them.
2 Chronicles 21:20
21:20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. No one regretted his death; 9 he was buried in the City of David, 10 but not in the royal tombs.
2 Chronicles 26:20
26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at 11 him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king 12 himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.
2 Chronicles 31:3
31:3 The king contributed 13 some of what he owned for burnt sacrifices, including the morning and evening burnt sacrifices and the burnt sacrifices made on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other appointed times prescribed 14 in the law of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 32:11
32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power 15 of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! 16
2 Chronicles 34:12
34:12 The men worked faithfully. Their supervisors were Jahath and Obadiah (Levites descended from Merari), as well as Zechariah and Meshullam (descendants of Kohath). The Levites, all of whom were skilled musicians,
2 Chronicles 34:25
34:25 This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices 17 to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. 18 My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”
2 Chronicles 35:12
35:12 They reserved the burnt offerings and the cattle for the family divisions of the people to present to the Lord, as prescribed in the scroll of Moses. 19
2 Chronicles 35:22
35:22 But Josiah did not turn back from him; 20 he disguised himself for battle. He did not take seriously 21 the words of Necho which he had received from God; he went to fight him in the Plain of Megiddo. 22
2 Chronicles 36:14
36:14 All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. 23 They defiled the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
1 tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”
2 tn Heb “for his thing is from me.”
3 tn Heb “and they heard the words of the Lord and returned from going against Jeroboam.”
4 tn Heb “they”; the implied referent (messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “the Sea”; in context (“from the direction of Edom”) this must refer to the Dead Sea, which has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. NEB, NLT).
6 tc Most Hebrew mss read “from Aram” (i.e., Syria), but this must be a corruption of “Edom,” which is the reading of the LXX and Vulgate.
7 tn Heb “now, look, the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir.”
8 tn Heb “whom you did not allow Israel to enter when they came from the land of Egypt.”
9 tn Heb “and he went without desire.”
10 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
11 tn Heb “turned toward.”
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Heb “the portion of the king [was].”
14 tn Heb “as written.”
15 tn Heb “hand.”
16 tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’
17 tn Or “burned incense.”
18 tn Heb “angering me with all the work of their hands.” The present translation assumes this refers to idols they have manufactured (note the preceding reference to “other gods”). However, it is possible that this is a general reference to their sinful practices, in which case one might translate, “angering me by all the things they do.”
19 tn Heb “and they put aside the burnt offering[s] to give them to the divisions of the house of the fathers for the sons of the people to bring near to the Lord as it is written in the scroll of Moses – and the same with the cattle.”
20 tn Heb “and Josiah did not turn his face from him.”
21 tn Heb “listen to.”
22 map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.
23 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”