2 Chronicles 6:26

6:26 “The time will come when ¹  the skies ²  are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ³  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ⁴  and turn away from their sin because you punish ⁵  them,

2 Chronicles 6:36

6:36 “The time will come when your people ⁶  will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.

2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram ⁷  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ⁸  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ⁹  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 24:25

24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash ¹¹  badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to ¹²  the son ¹³  of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus ¹⁴  he died and was buried in the City of David, ¹⁵  but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 27:5

27:5 He launched a military campaign ¹⁶  against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites paid him 100 talents ¹⁷  of silver, 10,000 kors ¹⁸  of wheat, and 10,000 kors ¹⁹  of barley. The Ammonites also paid this same amount of annual tribute the next two years. ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 34:21

34:21 “Go, seek an oracle from ²¹  the Lord for me and those who remain in Israel and Judah. Find out about ²²  the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, ²³  because our ancestors ²⁴  have not obeyed the word of the Lord by doing all that this scroll instructs!” ²⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 26-27a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

² tn Or “heavens” (also in v. 12). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

³ tn Heb “they.”

⁴ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“afflict”).

⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

⁹ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

¹⁰ tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

¹¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”

¹³ tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.

¹⁴ tn Heb “and he died.”

¹⁵ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

¹⁶ tn Heb “he fought with.”

¹⁷ 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 silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).

¹⁸ sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

¹⁹ tn Heb “10,000 kors of wheat and 10,000 of barley.” The unit of measure of the barley is omitted in the Hebrew text, but is understood to be “kors,” the same as the measures of wheat.

²⁰ tn Heb “This the sons of Ammon brought to him, and in the second year and the third.”

²¹ tn Or “inquire of.”

²² tn Heb “concerning.”

²³ tn Heb “for great is the anger of the Lord which has been ignited against us.”

²⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 32, 33).

²⁵ tn Heb “by doing according to all that is written on this scroll.”