2 Chronicles 6:25

6:25 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 6:31

6:31 Then they will honor ²  you by obeying you ³  throughout their lifetimes as ⁴  they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

2 Chronicles 8:7

8:7 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 9:14

9:14 besides what he collected from the merchants ⁶  and traders. All the Arabian kings and the governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9:26

9:26 He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River ⁷  to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 14:1

14:1 (13:23) ⁸  Abijah passed away ⁹  and was buried in the City of David. ¹⁰  His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign ¹¹  the land had rest for ten years.

2 Chronicles 14:6

14:6 He built fortified cities throughout Judah, for the land was at rest and there was no war during those years; the Lord gave him peace.

2 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; ¹²  you removed ¹³  the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.” ¹⁴ 

2 Chronicles 20:7

20:7 Our God, you drove out ¹⁵  the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession ¹⁶  to the descendants of your friend ¹⁷  Abraham.

2 Chronicles 20:11

20:11 Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

2 Chronicles 30:10

30:10 The messengers journeyed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but people mocked and ridiculed them. ¹⁸ 

2 Chronicles 33:25

33:25 The people of the land executed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they ¹⁹  made his son Josiah king in his place.

2 Chronicles 34:7

34:7 he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:1

Jehoahaz’s Reign

36:1 The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 36:21

36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. ²¹  The land experienced ²²  its sabbatical years; ²³  it remained desolate for seventy years, ²⁴  as prophesied. ²⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 38).

² tn Heb “fear.”

³ tn Heb “by walking in your ways.”

⁴ tn Heb “all the days [in] which.”

⁵ tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from Israel.”

⁶ tn Heb “traveling men.”

⁷ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew the Euphrates River was typically referred to simply as “the River.”

⁸ sn Beginning with 14:1, the verse numbers through 14:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 14:1 ET = 13:23 HT, 14:2 ET = 14:1 HT, 14:3 ET = 14:2 HT, etc., through 14:15 ET = 14:14 HT. Beginning with 15:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

⁹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

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 “in his days.”

¹² tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”

¹³ tn Here בָּעַר (ba’ar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.

¹⁴ tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek the Lord.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “did you not drive out?” This is another rhetorical question which expects a positive response; see the note on the word “heaven” in the previous verse.

¹⁶ tn Heb “permanently.”

¹⁷ tn Or perhaps “your covenantal partner.” See Isa 41:8.

¹⁸ tn Heb “and they were mocking them and ridiculing them.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and the people of the land.”

²⁰ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²¹ tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

²² tn Or “accepted.”

²³ sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile.

²⁴ sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.

²⁵ tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”

sn Cyrus’ edict (see vv. 22-23) occurred about fifty years after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 b.c., which is most naturally understood as the beginning point of the “days of desolation” mentioned in v. 21. The number “seventy” is probably used in a metaphorical sense, indicating a typical lifetime and suggesting a thorough or complete judgment that would not be lifted until an entirely new generation emerged.