2 Chronicles 6:5
6:5 He told David, 1 ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. 2 Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:36
6:36 “The time will come when your people 3 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 14:7
14:7 He said to the people of Judah: 4 “Let’s build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates. 5 The land remains ours because we have followed 6 the Lord our God and he has made us secure on all sides.” 7 So they built the cities 8 and prospered.
2 Chronicles 15:8
15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. 9 He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. 10
2 Chronicles 23:13
23:13 Then she saw 11 the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters stood beside the king and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets, and the musicians with various instruments were leading the celebration. Athaliah tore her clothes and yelled, “Treason! Treason!” 12
2 Chronicles 23:20
23:20 He summoned 13 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 26:21
26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 14 afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 30:9
30:9 For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The Lord your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you 15 if you return to him.”
2 Chronicles 34:8
34:8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple. 16 He sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city official, and Joah son of Joahaz the secretary to repair the temple of the Lord his God.
1 tn Heb “saying.”
2 tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.” Here “name” is used by metonymy for the Lord himself, and thus the expression “to be there” refers to his taking up residence there (hence the translation, “a temple in which to live”). In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.
3 tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the people of Judah.
5 tn Heb “and we will surround [them] with wall[s] and towers, doors, and bars.”
6 tn Heb “sought.”
7 tn Heb “and he has given us rest all around.”
8 tn The words “the cities” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
9 tn Heb “strengthened himself.”
10 tn Heb “the porch of the Lord.”
11 tn Heb “and she saw, and behold.”
12 tn Or “Conspiracy! Conspiracy!”
13 tn Heb “took.”
14 tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.
15 tn Heb “turn [his] face from you.”
16 tn Heb “to purify the land and the house.”