Discovery Box2 Chronicles 1:6 
Context1:6 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 1:12
Context1:12 you are granted wisdom and discernment. 1 Furthermore I am giving you riches, wealth, and honor surpassing that of any king before or after you.” 2
2 Chronicles 6:12
Context6:12 He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.
2 Chronicles 6:22
Context6:22 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, 3
2 Chronicles 18:20
Context18:20 Then a spirit 4 stepped forward and stood before the Lord. He said, ‘I will deceive him.’ The Lord asked him, ‘How?’
2 Chronicles 20:5
Context20:5 Jehoshaphat stood before the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem 5 at the Lord’s temple, in front of the new courtyard.
2 Chronicles 20:7
Context20:7 Our God, you drove out 6 the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession 7 to the descendants of your friend 8 Abraham.
2 Chronicles 20:18
Context20:18 Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah 9 and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord and worshiped him. 10
2 Chronicles 25:8
Context25:8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you 11 before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.” 12
2 Chronicles 28:10
Context28:10 And now you are planning 13 to enslave 14 the people 15 of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?
2 Chronicles 29:23
Context29:23 Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them.
2 Chronicles 33:12
Context33:12 In his pain 16 Manasseh 17 asked the Lord his God for mercy 18 and truly 19 humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. 20
2 Chronicles 34:18
Context34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.
2 Chronicles 36:12
Context36:12 He did evil in the sight of 21 the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, the Lord’s spokesman.
1 tn Heb “wisdom and discernment are given to you.”
2 tn Heb “which was not so for the kings who were before you, and after you there will not be so.”
3 tn Heb “and if the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.”
4 tn Heb “the spirit.” The significance of the article prefixed to רוּחַ (ruakh) is uncertain, but it could contain a clue as to this spirit’s identity, especially when interpreted in light of verse 23. It is certainly possible, and probably even likely, that the article is used in a generic or dramatic sense and should be translated, “a spirit.” In the latter case it would show that this spirit was vivid and definite in the mind of Micaiah the storyteller. However, if one insists that the article indicates a well-known or universally known spirit, the following context provides a likely referent. Verse 23 tells how Zedekiah slapped Micaiah in the face and then asked sarcastically, “Which way did the spirit from the
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6 tn Heb “did you not drive out?” This is another rhetorical question which expects a positive response; see the note on the word “heaven” in the previous verse.
7 tn Heb “permanently.”
8 tn Or perhaps “your covenantal partner.” See Isa 41:8.
9 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.
10 tn Heb “to worship the
11 tn Heb “cause you to stumble.”
12 tn Heb “to cause to stumble.”
13 tn Heb “saying.”
14 tn Heb “to enslave as male servants and female servants.”
15 tn Heb “sons.”
16 tn Or “distress.”
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 tn Heb “appeased the face of the
19 tn Or “greatly.”
20 tn Heb “fathers.”
21 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
