Discovery Box2 Chronicles 1:3-4 
Context1:3 Solomon and the entire assembly went to the worship center 1 in Gibeon, for the tent where they met God 2 was located there, which Moses the Lord’s servant had made in the wilderness. 1:4 (Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem. 3
2 Chronicles 1:9
Context1:9 Now, Lord God, may your promise 4 to my father David be realized, 5 for you have made me king over a great nation as numerous as the dust of the earth.
2 Chronicles 5:1
Context5:1 When Solomon had finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 6:18
Context6:18 “God does not really live with humankind on the earth! 6 Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
2 Chronicles 7:22
Context7:22 Others will then answer, 7 ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, 8 who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. 9 That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”
2 Chronicles 10:15
Context10:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events 10 so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made 11 through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles 13:10
Context13:10 But as for us, the Lord is our God and we have not rejected him. Aaron’s descendants serve as the Lord’s priests and the Levites assist them with the work. 12
2 Chronicles 18:5
Context18:5 So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” 13 They said, “Attack! God 14 will hand it over to the king.”
2 Chronicles 18:31
Context18:31 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The Lord helped him; God lured them away from him.
2 Chronicles 19:4
Context19:4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. 15 He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow 16 the Lord God of their ancestors. 17
2 Chronicles 20:12
Context20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don’t know what we should do; we look to you for help.” 18
2 Chronicles 21:10
Context21:10 So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. 19 At that same time Libnah also rebelled and freed themselves from Judah’s control 20 because Jehoram 21 rejected the Lord God of his ancestors.
2 Chronicles 21:12
Context21:12 Jehoram 22 received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You 23 have not followed in the footsteps 24 of your father Jehoshaphat and of 25 King Asa of Judah,
2 Chronicles 22:7
Context22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. 26 When Ahaziah 27 arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned 28 to wipe out Ahab’s family. 29
2 Chronicles 23:3
Context23:3 and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada 30 said to them, “The king’s son will rule, just as the Lord promised David’s descendants.
2 Chronicles 24:7
Context24:7 (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)
2 Chronicles 24:9
Context24:9 An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the Lord the tax that Moses, God’s servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness. 31
2 Chronicles 26:16
Context26:16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. 32 He disobeyed 33 the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.
2 Chronicles 28:5
Context28:5 The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians 34 defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. 35 He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him. 36
2 Chronicles 28:24
Context28:24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 29:5-7
Context29:5 He said to them: “Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the Lord God of your ancestors! 37 Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean! 29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of 38 the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned 39 away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. 40 29:7 They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:1
Context30:1 Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 41 and observe a Passover celebration for the Lord God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Context30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn 42 like your fathers! Submit 43 to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. 44
2 Chronicles 30:16
Context30:16 They stood at their posts according to the regulations outlined in the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests were splashing the blood as the Levites handed it to them. 45
2 Chronicles 30:22
Context30:22 Hezekiah expressed his appreciation to all the Levites, 46 who demonstrated great skill in serving the Lord. 47 They feasted for the seven days of the festival, 48 and were making peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their ancestors.
2 Chronicles 31:13-14
Context31:13 Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath, and Benaiah worked under the supervision of Konaniah and his brother Shimei, as directed by King Hezekiah and Azariah, the supervisor of God’s temple.
31:14 Kore son of Imnah, a Levite and the guard on the east side, was in charge of the voluntary offerings made to God and disbursed the contributions made to the Lord and the consecrated items.
2 Chronicles 32:8
Context32:8 He has with him mere human strength, 49 but the Lord our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!” The army 50 was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.
2 Chronicles 32:11
Context32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power 51 of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! 52
2 Chronicles 32:31
Context32:31 So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, 53 God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives. 54
2 Chronicles 33:13
Context33:13 When he prayed to the Lord, 55 the Lord 56 responded to him 57 and answered favorably 58 his cry for mercy. The Lord 59 brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.
2 Chronicles 33:16
Context33:16 He erected the altar of the Lord and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of 60 Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:26
Context34:26 Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the Lord: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:
2 Chronicles 35:8
Context35:8 His officials also willingly contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of God’s temple, supplied 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 cattle.
2 Chronicles 35:22
Context35:22 But Josiah did not turn back from him; 61 he disguised himself for battle. He did not take seriously 62 the words of Necho which he had received from God; he went to fight him in the Plain of Megiddo. 63
2 Chronicles 36:5
Context36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. 64 He did evil in the sight of 65 the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 36:16-17
Context36:16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, 66 and ridiculed his prophets. 67 Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. 68 36:17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered 69 their young men in their temple. 70 He did not spare 71 young men or women, or even the old and aging. God 72 handed everyone over to him.
1 tn Or “high place.”
2 tn Heb “the tent of meeting of God.”
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 tn Heb “you word.”
5 tn Or “be firm, established.”
6 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live with mankind on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which is reflected in the translation “God does not really live with mankind on the earth.”
7 tn Heb “and they will say.”
8 tn Heb “fathers.”
9 tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”
10 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from God.”
11 tn Heb “so that the
12 tn Heb “and priests serving the
13 tn Heb “Should we go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
14 tn Though Jehoshaphat had requested an oracle from “the
15 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
16 tn Heb “and turned them back to.”
17 tn Heb “fathers.”
18 tn Heb “for [or “indeed”] upon you are our eyes.”
19 tn Heb “and Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah until this day.”
20 tn Or “from Jehoram’s control”; Heb “from under his hand.” The pronominal suffix may refer to Judah in general or, more specifically, to Jehoram.
21 tn Heb “he.” This pronoun could refer to Judah, but the context focuses on Jehoram’s misdeeds. See especially v. 11.
22 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
23 tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.
24 tn Heb “walked in the ways.”
25 tn Heb “in the ways of.”
26 tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”
27 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
28 tn Heb “anointed.”
29 tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”
30 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada the priest, cf. v. 8) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
31 tn Heb “and they gave voice in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the
32 tn Heb “his heart was high [i.e., proud] to destroy.”
33 tn Or “was unfaithful to.”
34 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
35 tn Heb “and took captive from him a great captivity and brought [them] to Damascus.”
36 tn Heb “who struck him down with a great striking.”
37 tn Heb “fathers.”
38 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
39 tn Heb “turned their faces.”
40 tn Heb “and turned the back.”
41 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
42 tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).
43 tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.
44 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
45 tn Heb “from the hand of the Levites.”
46 tn Heb “and Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites.” On the meaning of the idiom “speak to the heart of” here, see HALOT 210 s.v. II דבר 8.d.
47 tn Heb “who demonstrated skill [with] good skill for the
48 tn Heb “and they ate [during] the appointed time [for] seven days.” מוֹעֵד (mo’ed, “appointed time”) is probably an adverbial accusative of time referring to the festival. However, some understand it as metonymically referring to the food eaten during the festival. See BDB 417 s.v.
49 tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”
50 tn Or “people.”
51 tn Heb “hand.”
52 tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The
53 tn Heb “and when the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire concerning the sign which was in the land, [arrived].”
54 tn Heb “to know all [that was] in his heart.”
55 tn Heb “him”; the referent (the
56 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
57 tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”
58 tn Heb “heard.”
59 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
60 tn Heb “told Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.
61 tn Heb “and Josiah did not turn his face from him.”
62 tn Heb “listen to.”
63 map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.
64 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
65 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
66 tn Heb “his words.”
67 tn All three verbal forms (“mocked,” “despised,” and “ridiculed”) are active participles in the Hebrew text, indicating continual or repeated action. They made a habit of rejecting God’s prophetic messengers.
68 tn Heb “until the anger of the
69 tn Heb “killed with the sword.”
70 tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”
71 tn Or “show compassion to.”
72 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
