2 Chronicles 8:11

8:11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David¹ to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”

2 Chronicles 9:8

9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored² 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 14:7

14:7 He said to the people of Judah:⁶ “Let’s build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates.⁷ The land remains ours because we have followed⁸ the Lord our God and he has made us secure on all sides.”⁹ So they built the cities¹⁰ and prospered.

2 Chronicles 22:9

22:9 He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria.¹¹ They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned,¹² “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.¹³

2 Chronicles 23:20

23:20 He summoned¹⁴ 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 24:20

24:20 God’s Spirit energized¹⁵ Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’”

2 Chronicles 24:25

24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash¹⁶ badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to¹⁷ the son¹⁸ of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus¹⁹ he died and was buried in the City of David,²⁰ but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 25:4

25:4 However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses,²¹ “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do,²² and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do.²³ A man must be executed only for his own sin.”²⁴

2 Chronicles 25:24

25:24 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom, the riches in the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 26:21

26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters,²⁵ 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 28:9

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.²⁶

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger²⁷ and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib²⁸ returned home humiliated.²⁹ When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons³⁰ struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 33:7

33:7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.³¹

2 Chronicles 33:14

33:14 After this Manasseh³² built up the outer wall of the City of David³³ on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

2 Chronicles 33:19

33:19 The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.³⁴

2 Chronicles 34:4

34:4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down,³⁵ and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

2 Chronicles 34:8

34:8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple.³⁶ 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.

¹sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

²tn Or “delighted in.”

³tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”

⁴tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”

⁵tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

⁶tn 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.

⁷tn Heb “and we will surround [them] with wall[s] and towers, doors, and bars.”

⁸tn Heb “sought.”

⁹tn Heb “and he has given us rest all around.”

¹⁰tn The words “the cities” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

¹¹map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹²tn Heb “they said.”

¹³tn Heb “and there was no one belonging to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for kingship.”

¹⁴tn Heb “took.”

¹⁵tn Heb “clothed.”

¹⁶tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”

¹⁸tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.

¹⁹tn Heb “and he died.”

²⁰sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

²¹tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

²²tn Heb “on account of sons.”

²³tn Heb “on account of fathers.”

²⁴sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.

²⁵tn 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.

²⁶tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

²⁷tn Or “an angel.”

²⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁹tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

³⁰tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

³¹tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name permanently” (or perhaps “forever”).

³²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³³sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

³⁴tn Heb “and his prayer and being entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness and the places where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – behold, they are written on the words of his seers.”

³⁵tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”

³⁶tn Heb “to purify the land and the house.”