Discovery Box2 Chronicles 1:5 
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.)
2 Chronicles 2:3
Context2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram 3 of Tyre: 4 “Help me 5 as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs 6 for the construction of his palace. 7
2 Chronicles 5:6
Context5:6 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. 8
2 Chronicles 7:8
Context7:8 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival for seven days. This great assembly included people from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt in the south. 9
2 Chronicles 7:12
Context7:12 the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered 10 your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made. 11
2 Chronicles 8:6
Context8:6 and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, 12 and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. 13 He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, 14 Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. 15
2 Chronicles 10:18
Context10:18 King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, 16 the supervisor of the work crews, out after them, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 17
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. 18
2 Chronicles 16:9
Context16:9 Certainly 19 the Lord watches the whole earth carefully 20 and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. 21 You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.
2 Chronicles 18:12
Context18:12 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. 22 Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success!” 23
2 Chronicles 18:21
Context18:21 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord 24 said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. 25 Go out and do as you have proposed.’
2 Chronicles 21:19
Context21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. 26 His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. 27
2 Chronicles 22:4
Context22:4 He did evil in the sight of 28 the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they 29 gave him advice that led to his destruction.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Context24:22 King Joash disregarded 30 the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s 31 son. As Zechariah 32 was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” 33
2 Chronicles 25:7
Context25:7 But a prophet 34 visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. 35
2 Chronicles 25:15
Context25:15 The Lord was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why are you following 36 these gods 37 that could not deliver their own people from your power?” 38
2 Chronicles 26:16
Context26:16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. 39 He disobeyed 40 the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.
2 Chronicles 26:23
Context26:23 Uzziah passed away 41 and was buried near his ancestors 42 in a cemetery 43 belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.) 44 His son Jotham replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 31:15
Context31:15 In the cities of the priests, Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah faithfully assisted him in making disbursements to their fellow priests 45 according to their divisions, regardless of age. 46
2 Chronicles 32:8
Context32:8 He has with him mere human strength, 47 but the Lord our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!” The army 48 was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.
2 Chronicles 35:20
Context35:20 After Josiah had done all this for the temple, 49 King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. 50 Josiah marched out to oppose him.
2 Chronicles 36:3-4
Context36:3 The king of Egypt prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem and imposed on the land a special tax 51 of one hundred talents 52 of silver and a talent of gold. 36:4 The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s 53 brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Necho seized his brother Jehoahaz and took him to Egypt.
2 Chronicles 36:8
Context36:8 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 54 His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 36:10
Context36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought 55 to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative 56 Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:13
Context36:13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance 57 in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return 58 to the Lord God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:17
Context36:17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered 59 their young men in their temple. 60 He did not spare 61 young men or women, or even the old and aging. God 62 handed everyone over to him.
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.” Some medieval Hebrew
4 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
5 tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.
6 tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”
8 tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
9 tn Heb “Solomon held the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel was with him, a very great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the wadi of Egypt.”
10 tn Heb “I have heard.”
11 tn Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the
12 tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name is unexpected in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.
13 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
14 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
15 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”
16 sn In the parallel account in 1 Kgs 12:18 this name appears as “Adoniram.”
17 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
18 tn Heb “and priests serving the
19 tn Or “for.”
20 tn Heb “the eyes of the
21 tn Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”
22 tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”
23 tn Heb “let your words be like one of them and speak good.”
24 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
25 tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the
26 tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”
27 tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”
28 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
29 tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.
30 tn Heb “did not remember.”
31 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
32 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
33 tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.
34 tn Heb “man of God.”
35 tn Heb “Israel, all the sons of Ephraim.”
36 tn Heb “seeking,” perhaps in the sense of “consulting [an oracle from].”
37 tn Heb “the gods of the people.”
38 tn Heb “hand.”
39 tn Heb “his heart was high [i.e., proud] to destroy.”
40 tn Or “was unfaithful to.”
41 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
42 tn Heb “fathers.”
43 tn Heb “a field of burial.”
44 tn Heb “for they said, ‘He had a skin disease.’”
45 tn Heb “to their brothers.”
46 tn Heb “like great, like small” (i.e., old and young alike).
47 tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”
48 tn Or “people.”
49 tn Heb “After all this, [by] which Josiah prepared the temple.”
50 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
51 tn Or “a fine.”
52 tn 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 silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).
53 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoahaz) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
54 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and his horrible deeds which he did and that which was found against him, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”
55 tn Heb “sent and brought him.”
56 tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).
57 tn Or “made him swear an oath.”
58 tn Heb “and he stiffened his neck and strengthened his heart from returning.”
59 tn Heb “killed with the sword.”
60 tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”
61 tn Or “show compassion to.”
62 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
