6:36 “The time will come when your people 1 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.
9:20 All of King Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon’s time. 9
14:11 Asa prayed 10 to the Lord his God: “O Lord, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. 11 Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. 12 O Lord our God, don’t let men prevail against you!” 13
15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers 14 from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live 15 when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah 23 and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age 24 equipped with spears and shields. 25
28:9 Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: “Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice. 28
1 tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “and the priests were standing at their posts, and the Levites with the instruments of music of the
3 tn Heb “which David the king made to give thanks to the
4 tn Heb “opposite them”; the referent (the Levites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tc The Hebrew text omits reference to the grain offerings at this point, but note that they are included both in the list in the second half of the verse (see note on “offerings” at the end of this verse) and in the parallel account in 1 Kgs 8:64. The construction וְאֶת־הַמִּנְחָה (vÿ’et-hamminkhah; vav [ו] + accusative sign + noun with article; “grain offerings”) was probably omitted accidentally by homoioarcton. Note the וְאֶת (vÿ’et) that immediately follows.
6 tn Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.” Because this is redundant, the translation employs a summary phrase: “all these offerings.”
7 tn Heb “and Huram sent to him by the hand of his servants, ships, and servants [who] know the sea, and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir.”
8 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 gold was 30,285 lbs. (13,770 kg).
9 tn Heb “there was no silver, it was not regarded as anything in the days of Solomon.”
10 tn Heb “called out.”
11 tn Heb “there is not with you to help between many with regard to [the one] without strength.”
12 tn Heb “and in your name we have come against this multitude.”
13 tn Heb “let not man retain [strength] with you.”
14 tn Or “resident aliens.”
15 tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”
16 tn Heb “to seek the
17 tn Or “hate.”
18 tn Heb “all his days.”
19 tn The words “his name is” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
20 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
21 tn Heb “they said.”
22 tn Heb “and there was no one belonging to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for kingship.”
23 tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy here for the people of Judah.
24 tn Heb “young men going out to war.”
25 tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”
26 tn Heb “angry.”
27 tn Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s disease). See 2 Kgs 5:1.
28 tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”
29 tn Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”
30 tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”
31 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
32 tn Heb “Whoever [is] among you from all his people – may the