2 Chronicles 1:1
Context1:1 Solomon son of David solidified his royal authority, 1 for 2 the Lord his God was with him and magnified him greatly.
2 Chronicles 1:7-8
Context1:7 That night God appeared 3 to Solomon and said to him, “Tell me 4 what I should give you.” 1:8 Solomon replied to God, “You demonstrated 5 great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.
2 Chronicles 6:7
Context6:7 Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel. 6
2 Chronicles 6:17
Context6:17 Now, O Lord God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant David be realized. 7
2 Chronicles 6:42
Context6:42 O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! 8 Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!”
2 Chronicles 9:23
Context9:23 All the kings of the earth wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. 9
2 Chronicles 13:16
Context13:16 The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, 10 and God handed them over to the men of Judah. 11
2 Chronicles 14:4
Context14:4 He ordered Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors 12 and to observe his law and commands. 13
2 Chronicles 15:6
Context15:6 One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil. 14
2 Chronicles 15:12
Context15:12 They solemnly agreed 15 to seek the Lord God of their ancestors 16 with their whole heart and being.
2 Chronicles 18:13
Context18:13 But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what my God tells me to say!”
2 Chronicles 19:7
Context19:7 Respect the Lord and make careful decisions, for the Lord our God disapproves of injustice, partiality, and bribery.” 17
2 Chronicles 20:19
Context20:19 Then some Levites, from the Kohathites and Korahites, got up and loudly praised the Lord God of Israel. 18
2 Chronicles 20:33
Context20:33 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors. 19
2 Chronicles 22:12
Context22:12 He remained in hiding in God’s temple 20 for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
2 Chronicles 24:13
Context24:13 They worked hard and made the repairs. 21 They followed the measurements specified for God’s temple and restored it. 22
2 Chronicles 26:7
Context26:7 God helped him in his campaigns 23 against the Philistines, the Arabs living in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.
2 Chronicles 29:36
Context29:36 Hezekiah and all the people were happy about what God had done 24 for them, 25 for it had been done quickly. 26
2 Chronicles 31:20
Context31:20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the Lord his God considered good and right and faithful.
2 Chronicles 33:17
Context33:17 The people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
1 tn Heb “and Solomon son of David strengthened himself over his kingdom.”
2 tn The disjunctive clause (note the vav [ו] + subject pattern) probably has a causal nuance here.
3 tn Or “revealed himself.”
4 tn Heb “ask.”
5 tn Heb “did.”
6 tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the
sn On the significance of the
7 tn Or “prove to be reliable.”
8 tc Heb “do not turn away the face of your anointed ones.” Many medieval Hebrew
9 tn Heb “and all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”
10 tn Heb “Judah.”
11 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “fathers.”
13 tn Heb “the law and the command.”
14 tn Heb “threw them into confusion with all distress.”
15 tn Heb “entered into a covenant.”
16 tn Heb “fathers.”
17 tn Heb “and now let the terror of the
18 tn Heb “arose to praise the
19 tn Heb “and still the people did not set their heart[s] on the God of their fathers.”
20 tn Heb “and he was with them in the house of God hiding.”
21 tn Heb “and the doers of the work worked, and the repairs went up for the work by their hand.”
22 tn Heb “and they caused the house of God to stand according to its measurements and they strengthened it.”
23 tn The words “in his campaigns” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons
24 tn Heb “prepared.”
25 tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun “they” has been used here for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
26 tn Heb “for quickly was the matter.”