2 Chronicles 5:6
5:6 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. 1
2 Chronicles 5:10
5:10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 2 (It was there that 3 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.)
2 Chronicles 8:8
8:8 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews and they continue in that role to this very day. 4
2 Chronicles 10:18
10:18 King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, 5 the supervisor of the work crews, out after them, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 6
2 Chronicles 28:3
28:3 He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, 7 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 8 whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 30:21
30:21 The Israelites who were in Jerusalem observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy. The Levites and priests were praising the Lord every day with all their might. 9
2 Chronicles 31:5
31:5 When the edict was issued, 10 the Israelites freely contributed 11 the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount.
2 Chronicles 33:9
33:9 But Manasseh misled the people of 12 Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
1 tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
2 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1).
3 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
4 tn Heb “from their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel did not wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a work crew to this day.”
5 sn In the parallel account in 1 Kgs 12:18 this name appears as “Adoniram.”
6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
7 sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB “burnt his sons in the fire”; NASB “burned his sons in 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.
8 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
9 tn Heb “and they were praising the Lord day by day, the Levites and the priests with instruments of strength to the Lord.” The phrase בִּכְלֵי־עֹז (bikhley-’oz, “with instruments of strength”) might refer to loud sounding musical instruments (NASB “with loud instruments”; NEB “with unrestrained fervour”). The present translation assumes an emendation to בְּכָל־עֹז (bÿkhol-’oz, “with all strength”); see 1 Chr 13:8, as well as HALOT 805 s.v. I עֹז and BDB 739 s.v. עֹז).
10 tn Heb “and when the word spread out.”
11 tn Heb “the sons of Israel multiplied.”
12 tn Heb “misled Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.