2 Chronicles 6:18

6:18 “God does not really live with humankind on the earth! ¹  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

2 Chronicles 6:34

6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ²  and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ³ 

2 Chronicles 21:11

21:11 He also built high places on the hills of Judah; he encouraged the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord ⁴  and led Judah away from the Lord. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 26:10

26:10 He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands ⁶  and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, ⁷  for he loved agriculture. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 33:15

33:15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

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¹ tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live with mankind on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which is reflected in the translation “God does not really live with mankind on the earth.”

² tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

³ tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he caused the residents of Jerusalem to commit adultery.” In this context spiritual unfaithfulness to the Lord is in view rather than physical adultery.

⁵ tn Heb “and drove Judah away.”

⁶ tn Heb “Shephelah.”

⁷ tn Heb “workers and vinedressers in the hills and in Carmel.” The words “he had” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “for a lover of the ground he [was].”