2 Chronicles 5:13
5:13 The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the Lord, singing: 1 “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple. 2
2 Chronicles 7:3
7:3 When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the Lord’s splendor over the temple, they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement. They worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, 3 “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!”
2 Chronicles 7:6
7:6 The priests stood in their assigned spots, along with the Levites who had the musical instruments used for praising the Lord. 4 (These were the ones King David made for giving thanks to the Lord and which were used by David when he offered praise, saying, “Certainly his loyal love endures.”) 5 Opposite the Levites, 6 the priests were blowing the trumpets, while all Israel stood there.
2 Chronicles 8:14
8:14 As his father David had decreed, Solomon 7 appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks, 8 and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates. 9 This was what David the man of God had ordered. 10
2 Chronicles 8:18
8:18 Huram sent him ships and some of his sailors, men who were well acquainted with the sea. They sailed with Solomon’s men to Ophir, 11 and took from there 450 talents 12 of gold, which they brought back to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 13:12
13:12 Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you. 13 You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, 14 for you will not win!”
2 Chronicles 14:11
14:11 Asa prayed 15 to the Lord his God: “O Lord, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. 16 Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. 17 O Lord our God, don’t let men prevail against you!” 18
2 Chronicles 15:9
15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers 19 from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live 20 when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
2 Chronicles 18:7
18:7 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. 21 But I despise 22 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but always 23 disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 24 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things!”
2 Chronicles 20:20
20:20 Early the next morning they marched out to the Desert of Tekoa. When they were ready to march, Jehoshaphat stood up and said: “Listen to me, you people of Judah 25 and residents of Jerusalem! Trust in the Lord your God and you will be safe! 26 Trust in the message of his prophets and you will win.”
2 Chronicles 23:13
23:13 Then she saw 27 the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters stood beside the king and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets, and the musicians with various instruments were leading the celebration. Athaliah tore her clothes and yelled, “Treason! Treason!” 28
2 Chronicles 25:4
25:4 However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, 29 “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, 30 and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. 31 A man must be executed only for his own sin.” 32
2 Chronicles 26:21
26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 33 afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 29:25
29:25 King Hezekiah 34 stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, 35 and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)
2 Chronicles 30:6
30:6 Messengers 36 delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read: 37 “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return 38 to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. 39
2 Chronicles 31:10
31:10 Azariah, the head priest from the family of Zadok, said to him, “Since the contributions began arriving in the Lord’s temple, we have had plenty to eat and have a large quantity left over. For the Lord has blessed his people, and this large amount remains.”
2 Chronicles 32:15
32:15 Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. So how 40 can your gods rescue 41 you from my power?’”
2 Chronicles 32:17
32:17 He wrote letters mocking the Lord God of Israel and insulting him with these words: 42 “The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah’s god rescue his people from my power.” 43
2 Chronicles 33:6-7
33:6 He passed his sons through the fire 44 in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. 45 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. 46
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. 47
2 Chronicles 34:27
34:27 ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit 48 and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words concerning this place and its residents. You humbled yourself before me, tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the Lord.
2 Chronicles 34:33
34:33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged 49 all who were in Israel to worship the Lord their God. Throughout the rest of his reign 50 they did not turn aside from following the Lord God of their ancestors.
2 Chronicles 35:3
35:3 He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the Lord, “Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don’t carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel!
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.
2 Chronicles 36:23
36:23 It read: “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord God of the heavens has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build for him a temple in Jerusalem 51 in Judah. May the Lord your God energize you who belong to his people, so you may be able to go back there!” 52
1 tn Heb “like one were the trumpeters and the musicians, causing one voice to be heard, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, and while raising a voice with trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of music, and while praising the Lord.”
2 tn Heb “and the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the Lord.”
3 tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “and the priests were standing at their posts, and the Levites with the instruments of music of the Lord.”
5 tn Heb “which David the king made to give thanks to the Lord, for lasting is his loyal love, when David praised by them.”
6 tn Heb “opposite them”; the referent (the Levites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “and the Levites, according to their posts, to praise and to serve opposite the priests according to the matter of a day in its day.”
9 tn Heb “and the gatekeepers by their divisions for a gate and a gate.”
10 tn Heb “for so [was] the command of David the man of God.”
11 tn Heb “and Huram sent to him by the hand of his servants, ships, and servants [who] know the sea, and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir.”
12 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 30,285 lbs. (13,770 kg).
13 tn Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”
14 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18).
15 tn Heb “called out.”
16 tn Heb “there is not with you to help between many with regard to [the one] without strength.”
17 tn Heb “and in your name we have come against this multitude.”
18 tn Heb “let not man retain [strength] with you.”
19 tn Or “resident aliens.”
20 tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”
21 tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”
22 tn Or “hate.”
23 tn Heb “all his days.”
24 tn The words “his name is” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
25 tn Heb “O Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “Judah” in v. 15.
26 tn There is a wordplay in the Hebrew text. The Hiphil verb form הַאֲמִינוּ (ha’aminu, “trust”) and the Niphal form תֵאָמֵנוּ (te’amenu, “you will be safe”) come from the same verbal root (אָמַן, ’aman).
27 tn Heb “and she saw, and behold.”
28 tn Or “Conspiracy! Conspiracy!”
29 tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”
30 tn Heb “on account of sons.”
31 tn Heb “on account of fathers.”
32 sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.
33 tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.
34 tn Heb “he”; the referent (King Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
35 tn Or “seer.”
36 tn Heb “the runners.”
37 tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”
38 tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
39 tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”
40 tn Heb “how much less.”
41 tn The verb is plural, suggesting that the preceding אֱלֹהֵיכֶם (’elohekhem) be translated “your gods,” rather than “your God.”
42 tn Heb “and speaking against him, saying.”
43 tn Heb “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”
44 tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
45 tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.
46 tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”
47 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”).
48 tn Heb “Because your heart was tender.”
49 tn Or “caused, forced.”
50 tn Heb “all his days.”
51 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
52 tn Heb “Whoever [is] among you from all his people – may the Lord his God [be] with him so that he may go up.”