Discovery Box2 Chronicles 1:5-6 
Context1:5 But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, was in front of the Lord’s tabernacle. 1 Solomon and the entire assembly prayed to him 2 there.) 1:6 Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the Lord which was at the meeting tent, and he offered up a thousand burnt sacrifices.
2 Chronicles 2:11
Context2:11 King Huram 3 of Tyre sent this letter to Solomon: “Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king.”
2 Chronicles 4:16
Context4:16 and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. 4 All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple 5 were made from polished bronze.
2 Chronicles 5:5
Context5:5 The priests and Levites carried the ark, the tent where God appeared to his people, 6 and all the holy items in the tent. 7
2 Chronicles 5:7
Context5:7 The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its assigned 8 place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place under the wings of the cherubs.
2 Chronicles 5:10
Context5:10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 9 (It was there that 10 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.)
2 Chronicles 6:8
Context6:8 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. 11
2 Chronicles 7:1
Context7:1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven 12 and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the Lord’s splendor filled the temple.
2 Chronicles 7:11-12
Context7:11 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, and accomplished all his plans for the Lord’s temple and his royal palace, 13 7:12 the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered 14 your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made. 15
2 Chronicles 8:1
Context8:1 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,
2 Chronicles 8:16
Context8:16 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 11:14
Context11:14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord’s priests.
2 Chronicles 12:1-2
Context12:1 After Rehoboam’s rule was established and solidified, he and all Israel rejected the law of the Lord. 12:2 Because they were unfaithful to the Lord, in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 12:11-12
Context12:11 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom. 16
12:12 So when Rehoboam 17 humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; 18 Judah experienced some good things. 19
2 Chronicles 13:14
Context13:14 The men of Judah turned around and realized they were being attacked from the front and the rear. 20 So they cried out for help to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets,
2 Chronicles 14:6
Context14:6 He built fortified cities throughout Judah, for the land was at rest and there was no war during those years; the Lord gave him peace.
2 Chronicles 14:14
Context14:14 They defeated all the cities surrounding Gerar, for the Lord caused them to panic. 21 The men of Judah 22 looted all the cities, for they contained a huge amount of goods. 23
2 Chronicles 15:17
Context15:17 The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. 24
2 Chronicles 16:2
Context16:2 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and sent it to King Ben Hadad of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:
2 Chronicles 16:8
Context16:8 Did not the Cushites and Libyans have a huge army with chariots and a very large number of horsemen? But when you relied on the Lord, he handed them over to you!
2 Chronicles 17:3
Context17:3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor 25 David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. 26 He did not seek the Baals,
2 Chronicles 17:5-6
Context17:5 The Lord made his kingdom secure; 27 all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he became very wealthy and greatly respected. 28 17:6 He was committed to following the Lord; 29 he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
2 Chronicles 17:9-10
Context17:9 They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the scroll of the law of the Lord. They traveled to all the cities of Judah and taught the people.
17:10 The Lord put fear into all the kingdoms surrounding Judah; 30 they did not make war with Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 17:16
Context17:16 and Amasiah son of Zikri, who volunteered to serve the Lord, led 200,000 skilled warriors.
2 Chronicles 18:10-11
Context18:10 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed!’” 18:11 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king!”
2 Chronicles 18:17
Context18:17 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?”
2 Chronicles 18:19
Context18:19 The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive King Ahab of Israel, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die there?’ One said this and another that.
2 Chronicles 18:23
Context18:23 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?”
2 Chronicles 18:27
Context18:27 Micaiah said, “If you really do return safely, then the Lord has not spoken through me!” Then he added, “Take note, 31 all you people.”
2 Chronicles 19:6
Context19:6 He told the judges, “Be careful what you do, 32 for you are not judging for men, but for the Lord, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.
2 Chronicles 20:14
Context20:14 Then in the midst of the assembly, the Lord’s Spirit came upon Jachaziel son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendant of Asaph.
2 Chronicles 20:18
Context20:18 Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah 33 and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord and worshiped him. 34
2 Chronicles 20:22
Context20:22 When they began to shout and praise, the Lord suddenly attacked 35 the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir 36 who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.
2 Chronicles 20:26-27
Context20:26 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berachah, where 37 they praised the Lord. So that place is called the Valley of Berachah 38 to this very day. 20:27 Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem with Jehoshaphat leading them; the Lord had given them reason to rejoice over their enemies.
2 Chronicles 20:32
Context20:32 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the Lord approved. 39
2 Chronicles 21:6-7
Context21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. 40 He did evil in the sight of 41 the Lord. 21:7 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty 42 because of the promise 43 he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty. 44
2 Chronicles 21:14
Context21:14 So look, the Lord is about to severely afflict 45 your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own.
2 Chronicles 22:4
Context22:4 He did evil in the sight of 46 the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they 47 gave him advice that led to his destruction.
2 Chronicles 23:5
Context23:5 Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others 48 will stand in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 23:19
Context23:19 He posted guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.
2 Chronicles 28:11
Context28:11 Now listen to me! Send back those you have seized from your brothers, for the Lord is very angry at you!” 49
2 Chronicles 28:21
Context28:21 Ahaz gathered riches 50 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 29:3
Context29:3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.
2 Chronicles 29:8
Context29:8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, 51 as you can see with your own eyes.
2 Chronicles 29:11
Context29:11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to serve in his presence and offer sacrifices.” 52
2 Chronicles 29:19
Context29:19 We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the Lord.”
2 Chronicles 29:32
Context29:32 The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the Lord, 53
2 Chronicles 29:35
Context29:35 There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted. 54
2 Chronicles 30:14-15
Context30:14 They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley. 55
30:15 They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 31:4
Context31:4 He ordered 56 the people living in Jerusalem 57 to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient 58 to the law of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 32:22-24
Context32:22 The Lord delivered Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem from the power of King Sennacherib of Assyria and from all the other nations. 59 He made them secure on every side. 60 32:23 Many were bringing presents 61 to the Lord in Jerusalem and precious gifts to King Hezekiah of Judah. From that time on he was respected by 62 all the nations.
32:24 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 63 He prayed to the Lord, who answered him and gave him a sign confirming that he would be healed. 64
2 Chronicles 32:26
Context32:26 But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. 65
2 Chronicles 33:4
Context33:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.” 66
2 Chronicles 33:9
Context33:9 But Manasseh misled the people of 67 Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 33:11
Context33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, 68 bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 33:22-23
Context33:22 He did evil in the sight of 69 the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped 70 them. 33:23 He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done. 71 Amon was guilty of great sin. 72
2 Chronicles 34:2
Context34:2 He did what the Lord approved 73 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; 74 he did not deviate to the right or the left.
2 Chronicles 34:7
Context34:7 he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:10-11
Context34:10 They handed it over to the construction foremen 75 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it. 76 34:11 They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair. 77
2 Chronicles 34:14
Context34:14 When they took out the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the Lord had given to Moses.
2 Chronicles 34:24
Context34:24 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 35:1
Context35:1 Josiah observed a Passover festival for the Lord in Jerusalem. 78 They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles 35:6
Context35:6 Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to do what the Lord commanded through Moses.” 79
2 Chronicles 36:9
Context36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen 80 years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. 81 He did evil in the sight of 82 the Lord.
2 Chronicles 36:21
Context36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. 83 The land experienced 84 its sabbatical years; 85 it remained desolate for seventy years, 86 as prophesied. 87
1 sn The tabernacle was located in Gibeon; see 1 Chr 21:29.
2 tn Heb “sought [or “inquired of”] him.”
3 tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 12). Some medieval Hebrew
4 tc Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45.
5 tn Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
6 tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”
sn See Exod 33:7-11.
7 tn Heb “and they carried the ark of the
8 tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
9 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1).
10 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
11 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”
12 tn Or “the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
13 tn Heb “and all that entered the heart of Solomon to do in the house of the
14 tn Heb “I have heard.”
15 tn Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the
16 tn Heb “to the chamber of the runners.”
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 tn Heb “the anger of the
19 tn Heb “and also in Judah there were good things.”
20 tn Heb “and Judah turned, and, look, to them [was] the battle in front and behind.”
21 tn Heb “for the terror of the
22 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
23 tn Heb “for great plunder was in them.”
24 tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete all his days.”
25 tn Heb “father.”
26 tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”
27 tn Heb “established the kingdom in his hand.”
28 tn Heb “and he had wealth and honor in abundance.”
29 tn Heb “and his heart was high in the ways of the
30 tn Heb “and the terror of the
31 tn Heb “Listen.”
32 tn Heb “see what you are doing.”
33 tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “Judah” in v. 15.
34 tn Heb “to worship the
35 tn Heb “set ambushers against.” This is probably idiomatic here for launching a surprise attack.
36 tn Heb “the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir.”
37 tn Heb “for there.”
38 sn The name Berachah, which means “blessing” in Hebrew, is derived from the verbal root “to praise [or “to bless”],” which appears earlier in the verse.
39 tn Heb “he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn from it, doing what is right in the eyes of the
40 tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”
41 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
42 tn Heb “house.”
43 tn Or “covenant.”
44 tn Heb “which he made to David, just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” Here “lamp” is metaphorical, symbolizing the Davidic dynasty.
45 tn Heb “to strike with a great striking.”
46 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
47 tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.
48 tn Heb “all the people.”
49 tn Heb “for the rage of the anger of the
50 tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).
51 tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”
52 tn Heb “to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and sacrificers.”
53 tn Heb “and the number of burnt sacrifices which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs; for a burnt sacrifice to the
54 tn Or “established.”
55 tn Heb “and they arose and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem, and all the incense altars they removed and threw into the Kidron Valley.”
56 tn Heb “said to.”
57 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
58 tn Heb “might hold firmly.”
59 tn Heb “and from the hand of all.”
60 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and he led him from all around.” However, the present translation assumes an emendation to וַיָּנַח לָהֶם מִסָּבִיב (vayyanakh lahem missaviv, “and he gave rest to them from all around”). See 2 Chr 15:15 and 20:30.
61 tn Or perhaps, “offerings.”
62 tn Heb “lifted up in the eyes of.”
63 tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”
64 tn Heb “and he spoke to him and a sign he gave to him.”
65 tn Heb “and Hezekiah humbled himself in the height of his heart, he and the residents of Jerusalem, and the anger of the
66 tn Heb “In Jerusalem my name will be permanently.”
67 tn Heb “misled 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.
68 tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”
69 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
70 tn Or “served.”
71 tn Heb “as Manasseh his father had humbled himself.”
72 tn Heb “for he, Amon, multiplied guilt.”
73 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
74 tn Heb “and walked in the ways of David his father.”
75 tn Heb “doer[s] of the work.”
76 tn Heb “and they gave it to the doers of the work who were working in the house of the
77 tn Heb “of the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.”
78 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
79 tn Heb “according to the word of the
80 tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”
81 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
82 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
83 tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the
84 tn Or “accepted.”
85 sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile.
86 sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.
87 tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”
sn Cyrus’ edict (see vv. 22-23) occurred about fifty years after the fall of Jerusalem in 586
