2 Chronicles 6:10

6:10 The Lord has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the Lord God of Israel

2 Chronicles 6:33

6:33 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ¹  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ²  obey ³  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 6:38

6:38 When they return to you with all their heart and being ⁵  in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 8:11

8:11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David ⁷  to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”

2 Chronicles 14:7

14:7 He said to the people of Judah: ⁸  “Let’s build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates. ⁹  The land remains ours because we have followed ¹⁰  the Lord our God and he has made us secure on all sides.” ¹¹  So they built the cities ¹²  and prospered.

2 Chronicles 33:14

33:14 After this Manasseh ¹³  built up the outer wall of the City of David ¹⁴  on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

2 Chronicles 33:19

33:19 The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself. ¹⁵ 

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!

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¹ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

² tn Heb “name.” See the note on “reputation” in v. 32.

³ tn Heb “fear.”

⁴ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

⁵ tn Or “soul.”

⁶ tn Heb “your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your honor”).

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

⁸ tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the people of Judah.

⁹ tn Heb “and we will surround [them] with wall[s] and towers, doors, and bars.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “sought.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and he has given us rest all around.”

¹² tn The words “the cities” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and his prayer and being entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness and the places where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – behold, they are written on the words of his seers.”