2 Chronicles 6:36
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.
2 Chronicles 9:8
9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored 2 you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! 3 Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, 4 he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” 5
2 Chronicles 12:13
12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; 6 he 7 was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. 8 Rehoboam’s 9 mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.
2 Chronicles 14:11
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
2 Chronicles 18:7
18:7 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. 14 But I despise 15 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but always 16 disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 17 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things!”
2 Chronicles 22:9
22:9 He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria. 18 They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned, 19 “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with his whole heart.” There was no one in Ahaziah’s family strong enough to rule in his place. 20
2 Chronicles 32:7
32:7 “Be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic 21 because of the king of Assyria and this huge army that is with him! We have with us one who is stronger than those who are with him. 22
2 Chronicles 35:18
35:18 A Passover like this had not been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had observed a Passover like the one celebrated by Josiah, the priests, the Levites, all the people of Judah and Israel who were there, and the residents of Jerusalem.
1 tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Or “delighted in.”
3 tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”
4 tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”
5 tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”
6 tn Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”
7 tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.
8 tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”
9 tn Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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 Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”
15 tn Or “hate.”
16 tn Heb “all his days.”
17 tn The words “his name is” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
18 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.
19 tn Heb “they said.”
20 tn Heb “and there was no one belonging to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for kingship.”
21 tn Or perhaps, “and don’t be discouraged.”
22 tn Heb “for with us [is] a greater [one] than with him.”