2 Chronicles 6:4

6:4 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled¹ what he promised² my father David.

2 Chronicles 6:8

6:8 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.³

2 Chronicles 7:18

7:18 Then I will establish your dynasty,⁴ just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’⁵

2 Chronicles 9:31

9:31 Then Solomon passed away⁶ and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 10:4

10:4 “Your father made us work too hard!⁷ Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”⁸

2 Chronicles 10:9

10:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”⁹

2 Chronicles 15:18

15:18 He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.¹⁰

2 Chronicles 21:4

21:4 Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful.¹¹ Then he killed all his brothers,¹² as well as some of the officials of Israel.

2 Chronicles 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah,¹³ who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

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.¹⁴

¹tn The Hebrew text reads, “fulfilled by his hand,” but the phrase “by his hand” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

²tn The Hebrew text reads, “promised by his mouth,” but the phrase “by his mouth” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

³tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”

⁴tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”

⁵tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”

⁶tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁷tn Heb “made our yoke burdensome.”

⁸tn Heb “but you, now, lighten the burdensome work of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you.” In the Hebrew text the prefixed verbal form with vav (וְנַעַבְדֶךָ, vÿna’avdekha, “and we will serve you”) following the imperative (הָקֵל, haqel, “lighten”) indicates purpose/result. The conditional sentence used in the present translation is an attempt to bring out the logical relationship between these forms.

⁹tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.”

¹¹tn Heb “and Jehoram arose over the kingdom of his father and strengthened himself.”

¹²tn Heb “and he killed all his brothers with the sword.”

¹³tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

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