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 2:11
Context2:11 King Huram 1 of Tyre sent this letter to Solomon: “Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king.”
2 Chronicles 3:5
Context3:5 He paneled 2 the main hall 3 with boards made from evergreen trees 4 and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains. 5
2 Chronicles 4:7
Context4:7 He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.
2 Chronicles 4:12
Context4:12 He made 6 the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,
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 8:12
Context8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the temple’s porch. 7
2 Chronicles 9:14
Context9:14 besides what he collected from the merchants 8 and traders. All the Arabian kings and the governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.
2 Chronicles 9:25-26
Context9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses 9 and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. 10 9:26 He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River 11 to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 10:4
Context10:4 “Your father made us work too hard! 12 Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” 13
2 Chronicles 10:9
Context10:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” 14
2 Chronicles 10:12
Context10:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”
2 Chronicles 11:1
Context11:1 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from Judah and Benjamin 15 to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
2 Chronicles 11:15
Context11:15 Jeroboam 16 appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers 17 and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made. 18
2 Chronicles 12:3
Context12:3 He had 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and an innumerable number of soldiers who accompanied him from Egypt, including Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.
2 Chronicles 13:2
Context13:2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. 19 His mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. 20
There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles 13:19
Context13:19 Abijah chased Jeroboam; he seized from him these cities: Bethel 21 and its surrounding towns, Jeshanah and its surrounding towns, and Ephron and its surrounding towns.
2 Chronicles 14:5-6
Context14:5 He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule. 22
14:6 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 14:9
Context14:9 Zerah the Cushite marched against them with an army of 1,000,000 23 men and 300 chariots. He arrived at Mareshah,
2 Chronicles 15:4
Context15:4 Because of their distress, they turned back to the Lord God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them. 24
2 Chronicles 16:10
Context16:10 Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. 25 Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.
2 Chronicles 17:7
Context17:7 In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah.
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 18:19-20
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. 18:20 Then a spirit 26 stepped forward and stood before the Lord. He said, ‘I will deceive him.’ The Lord asked him, ‘How?’
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, 27 all you people.”
2 Chronicles 18:34
Context18:34 While the battle raged throughout the day, the king stood propped up in his chariot opposite the Syrians. He died in the evening as the sun was setting.
2 Chronicles 21:4
Context21:4 Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful. 28 Then he killed all his brothers, 29 as well as some of the officials of Israel.
2 Chronicles 21:7
Context21:7 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty 30 because of the promise 31 he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty. 32
2 Chronicles 23:16
Context23:16 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the Lord. 33
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 25:21
Context25:21 So King Joash of Israel attacked. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other on the battlefield 34 in Beth Shemesh of Judah.
2 Chronicles 25:28
Context25:28 His body was carried back by horses, 35 and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors 36 in the City of David. 37
2 Chronicles 26:6
Context26:6 Uzziah attacked 38 the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. He built cities in the region of Ashdod and throughout Philistine territory. 39
2 Chronicles 27:3
Context27:3 He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel. 40
2 Chronicles 28:19
Context28:19 The Lord humiliated 41 Judah because of King Ahaz of Israel, 42 for he encouraged Judah to sin and was very 43 unfaithful to the Lord.
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 29:10
Context29:10 Now I intend 44 to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger. 45
2 Chronicles 30:19
Context30:19 everyone who has determined to follow God, 46 the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.” 47
2 Chronicles 31:4
Context31:4 He ordered 48 the people living in Jerusalem 49 to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient 50 to the law of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 31:21--32:1
Context31:21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God. 51
32:1 After these faithful deeds were accomplished, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities, intending to seize them. 52
2 Chronicles 32:19
Context32:19 They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.
2 Chronicles 32:23
Context32:23 Many were bringing presents 53 to the Lord in Jerusalem and precious gifts to King Hezekiah of Judah. From that time on he was respected by 54 all the nations.
2 Chronicles 32:25
Context32:25 But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem. 55
2 Chronicles 32:27-29
Context32:27 Hezekiah was very wealthy and greatly respected. He made storehouses for his silver, gold, precious stones, spices, and all his other valuable possessions. 56 32:28 He made storerooms for the harvest of grain, wine, and olive oil, and stalls for all his various kinds of livestock and his flocks. 57 32:29 He built royal cities 58 and owned a large number of sheep and cattle, for God gave him a huge amount of possessions.
2 Chronicles 33:2
Context33:2 He did evil in the sight of 59 the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations 60 whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.
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.” 61
2 Chronicles 35:2
Context35:2 He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 35:26
Context35:26 The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign, including the faithful acts he did in obedience to what is written in the law of the Lord 62
2 Chronicles 36:15
Context36:15 The Lord God of their ancestors 63 continually warned them through his messengers, 64 for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place.
2 Chronicles 36:20
Context36:20 He deported to Babylon all who escaped the sword. They served him and his sons until the Persian kingdom rose to power.
1 tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 12). Some medieval Hebrew
2 tn Heb “covered.”
3 tn Heb “the large house.”
4 tn Heb “wood of evergreens.”
5 tn Heb “and he put up on it palm trees and chains.”
6 tn The words “he made” are added for stylistic reasons.
7 tn Heb “the porch.”
8 tn Heb “traveling men.”
9 tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”
10 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
11 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew the Euphrates River was typically referred to simply as “the River.”
12 tn Heb “made our yoke burdensome.”
13 tn Heb “but you, now, lighten the burdensome work of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you.” In the Hebrew text the prefixed verbal form with vav (וְנַעַבְדֶךָ, vÿna’avdekha, “and we will serve you”) following the imperative (הָקֵל, haqel, “lighten”) indicates purpose/result. The conditional sentence used in the present translation is an attempt to bring out the logical relationship between these forms.
14 tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”
15 tn Heb “he summoned the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men, accomplished in war.”
16 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “for the high places.”
18 tn Heb “and for the goats and for the calves he had made.”
19 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
20 tn The parallel text in 1 Kgs 15:1 identifies his mother as “Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom” [=Absalom, 2 Chr 11:20). Although most English versions identify the mother’s father as Uriel of Gibeah, a number of English versions substitute the name “Maacah” here for the mother (e.g., NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT).
21 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
22 tn Heb “before him.”
23 tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”
24 tn Heb “and he allowed himself to be found by them.”
25 tn Heb “and Asa was angry at the seer, and he put him [in] the house of stocks, because of his rage with him over this.”
26 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
27 tn Heb “Listen.”
28 tn Heb “and Jehoram arose over the kingdom of his father and strengthened himself.”
29 tn Heb “and he killed all his brothers with the sword.”
30 tn Heb “house.”
31 tn Or “covenant.”
32 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.
33 tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and [between] all the people and [between] the king, to become a people for the
34 tn Heb “looked at each other [in the] face.” See the note on the expression “Come on, face me on the battlefield” in v. 17.
35 tn Heb “and they carried him on horses.”
36 tn Heb “fathers.”
37 tc The Hebrew text has “Judah,” but some medieval
sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
38 tn Heb “went out and fought.”
39 tn Heb “in Ashdod and among the Philistines.”
40 tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.
41 tn Or “subdued.”
42 sn That is, “of Judah.” Frequently in 2 Chronicles “Israel” is substituted for “Judah.”
43 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verbal form to emphasize the degree of Ahaz’s unfaithfulness.
44 tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”
45 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention.
46 tn Heb “everyone [who] has prepared his heart to seek God.”
47 tn Heb “and not according to the purification of the holy place.”
48 tn Heb “said to.”
49 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
50 tn Heb “might hold firmly.”
51 tn Heb “and in all the work which he began with regard to the service of the house of God and with respect to the law and with respect to the commandment, to seek his God; with all his heart he acted and he succeeded.”
52 tn Heb “and he said to break into them for himself.”
53 tn Or perhaps, “offerings.”
54 tn Heb “lifted up in the eyes of.”
55 tn Heb “but not according to the benefit [given] to him did Hezekiah repay, for his heart was high, and there was anger against him and against Judah and Jerusalem.”
map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
56 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and shields and all the desirable items.” The present translation assumes an emendation of מָגִנִּים (maginnim, “shields”) to מִגְדָּנִים (migdanim, “precious items”). See v. 23.
57 tn Heb “and stalls for all beasts and beasts, and flocks for the stalls.” The repetition of בְהֵמָה (bÿhemah, “beast”) here indicates various kinds of livestock.
58 tn Heb “and cities he made for himself.”
59 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
60 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
61 tn Heb “In Jerusalem my name will be permanently.”
62 tn Heb “and his faithful acts according to what is written in the law of the
63 tn Heb “fathers.”
64 tn Heb “and the
