2 Chronicles 8:16

8:16 All the work ordered by Solomon was completed, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid until it was finished; the Lord’s temple was completed.

2 Chronicles 16:4

16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ¹  They conquered ²  Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, ³  and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 16:6

16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ⁴  He used the materials to build up ⁵  Geba and Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 18:33

18:33 Now an archer shot an arrow at random ⁶  and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ⁷  ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, ⁸  for I am wounded.”

2 Chronicles 29:15

29:15 They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word ⁹  of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 29:27

29:27 Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:10

36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought ¹⁰  to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative ¹¹  Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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¹ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

² tn Heb “They struck down.”

³ sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

⁴ tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he built with them.”

⁶ tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “camp.”

⁹ tn Heb “words” (plural).

¹⁰ tn Heb “sent and brought him.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).