2 Chronicles 8:18

8:18 Huram sent him ships and some of his sailors, men who were well acquainted with the sea. They sailed with Solomon’s men to Ophir,¹ and took from there 450 talents² of gold, which they brought back to King Solomon.

2 Chronicles 23:14

23:14 Jehoiada the priest sent out the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, and ordered them, “Bring her outside the temple to the guards.³ Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple.⁴

2 Chronicles 30:5

30:5 So they sent an edict⁵ throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people⁶ to come and observe a Passover for the Lord God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law.⁷

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger⁸ and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib⁹ returned home humiliated.¹⁰ When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons¹¹ struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 34:8

34:8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple.¹² 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.

2 Chronicles 34:22

34:22 So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king¹³ went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah,¹⁴ the supervisor of the wardrobe.¹⁵ (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh¹⁶ district.) They stated their business,¹⁷

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho¹⁸ sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah?¹⁹ I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war.²⁰ God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.”²¹

¹tn Heb “and Huram sent to him by the hand of his servants, ships, and servants [who] know the sea, and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir.”

²tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 30,285 lbs. (13,770 kg).

³tn Heb “ranks.”

⁴tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Do not put her to death in the house of the Lord.’”

⁵tn Heb “and they caused to stand a word to cause a voice to pass through.”

⁶tn The words “summoning the people” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁷tn Heb “because not for abundance had they done as written.”

⁸tn Or “an angel.”

⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

¹¹tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

¹²tn Heb “to purify the land and the house.”

¹³tn Heb “and those who [were sent by] the king.”

¹⁴tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 22:14 has the variant spelling “son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas.”

¹⁵tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

¹⁶tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

¹⁷tn Heb “and they spoke to her like this.”

¹⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

²⁰tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

²¹tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”