2 Chronicles 6:29-30

6:29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ¹  as they acknowledge their intense pain ²  and spread out their hands toward this temple, 6:30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ³  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives. ⁴  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer, ⁶  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, ⁷  who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ⁸  That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 11:21

11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. ⁹  He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

2 Chronicles 14:8

14:8 Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah, equipped with large shields and spears. He also had 280,000 men from Benjamin who carried small shields and were adept archers; they were all skilled warriors.

2 Chronicles 23:20

23:20 He summoned ¹⁰  the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of land, and he then led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.

2 Chronicles 28:23

28:23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. ¹¹  He reasoned, ¹²  “Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble.

2 Chronicles 30:1

Hezekiah Observes the Passover

30:1 Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem ¹³  and observe a Passover celebration for the Lord God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 32:14

32:14 Who among all the gods of these nations whom my predecessors annihilated was able to rescue his people from my power? ¹⁴ 

2 Chronicles 32:33

32:33 Hezekiah passed away ¹⁵  and was buried on the ascent of the tombs of the descendants of David. All the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem buried him with great honor. ¹⁶  His son Manasseh replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 33:3

33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ¹⁷  and worshiped ¹⁸  them.

2 Chronicles 34:12

34:12 The men worked faithfully. Their supervisors were Jahath and Obadiah (Levites descended from Merari), as well as Zechariah and Meshullam (descendants of Kohath). The Levites, all of whom were skilled musicians,

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¹ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

² tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”

³ tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.

⁴ tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 28-30a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

⁶ tn Heb “and they will say.”

⁷ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁸ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

⁹ sn Concubines were slave women in ancient Near Eastern societies who were the legal property of their master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with their master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. After the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (2 Sam 21:10-14; 1 Kgs 11:3).

¹⁰ tn Heb “took.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the gods of Damascus, the ones who had defeated him.” The words “he thought” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The perspective is that of Ahaz, not the narrator! Another option is that “the kings” has been accidentally omitted after “gods of.” See v. 23b.

¹² tn Heb “said.”

¹³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁴ tn Heb “hand.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”

¹⁷ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

¹⁸ tn Or “served.”