2 Chronicles 8:9

8:9 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews;¹ the Israelites served as his soldiers, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.²

2 Chronicles 12:12

12:12 So when Rehoboam³ humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him;⁴ Judah experienced some good things.⁵

2 Chronicles 17:3

17:3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor⁶ David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign.⁷ He did not seek the Baals,

2 Chronicles 25:20

25:20 But Amaziah did not heed the warning,⁸ for God wanted to hand them over to Joash because they followed the gods of Edom.⁹

2 Chronicles 27:3

27:3 He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.¹⁰

2 Chronicles 28:21

28:21 Ahaz gathered riches¹¹ from the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.

2 Chronicles 33:2

33:2 He did evil in the sight of¹² the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations¹³ whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 35:26

35:26 The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign, including the faithful acts he did in obedience to what is written in the law of the Lord¹⁴

2 Chronicles 36:9

Jehoiachin’s Reign

36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen¹⁵ years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem.¹⁶ He did evil in the sight of¹⁷ the Lord.

¹tn Heb “and from the sons of Israel which Solomon did not assign to the laborers for his work.”

²tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”

³tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴tn Heb “the anger of the Lord turned from him and did not destroy completely.”

⁵tn Heb “and also in Judah there were good things.”

⁶tn Heb “father.”

⁷tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”

⁸tn Heb “did not listen.”

⁹tn Heb “because it was from God in order to give them into the hand because they sought the gods of Edom.”

¹⁰tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.

¹¹tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).

¹²tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹³tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and his faithful acts according to what is written in the law of the Lord.”

¹⁵tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”

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¹⁷tn Heb “in the eyes of.”