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 4:16
Context4:16 and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. 2 All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple 3 were made from polished bronze.
2 Chronicles 5:14
Context5:14 The priests could not carry out their duties 4 because of the cloud; the Lord’s splendor filled God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 6:4
Context6:4 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled 5 what he promised 6 my father David.
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. 7
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 6:19
Context6:19 But respond favorably to 8 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 9 the desperate prayer 10 your servant is presenting to you. 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 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. 13
12:12 So when Rehoboam 14 humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; 15 Judah experienced some good things. 16
2 Chronicles 13:5
Context13:5 Don’t you realize that the Lord God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal agreement? 17
2 Chronicles 13:18
Context13:18 That day 18 the Israelites were defeated; the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the Lord God of their ancestors.
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 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. 19
2 Chronicles 15:11
Context15:11 At that time 20 they sacrificed to the Lord some of the plunder they had brought back, including 700 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep. 21
2 Chronicles 15:13
Context15:13 Anyone who would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old, 22 male or female.
2 Chronicles 17:3
Context17:3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor 23 David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. 24 He did not seek the Baals,
2 Chronicles 17:9
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.
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 18:15
Context18:15 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in 25 the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”
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 18:27
Context18:27 Micaiah said, “If you really do return safely, then the Lord has not spoken through me!” Then he added, “Take note, 26 all you people.”
2 Chronicles 19:3
Context19:3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; 27 you removed 28 the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.” 29
2 Chronicles 19:8
Context19:8 In Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites, priests, and Israelite family leaders to judge on behalf of the Lord 30 and to settle disputes among the residents of Jerusalem. 31
2 Chronicles 20:3
Context20:3 Jehoshaphat was afraid, so he decided to seek the Lord’s advice. 32 He decreed that all Judah should observe a fast.
2 Chronicles 20:5
Context20:5 Jehoshaphat stood before the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem 33 at the Lord’s temple, in front of the new courtyard.
2 Chronicles 20:18
Context20:18 Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face toward the ground, and all the people of Judah 34 and the residents of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord and worshiped him. 35
2 Chronicles 20:22
Context20:22 When they began to shout and praise, the Lord suddenly attacked 36 the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir 37 who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.
2 Chronicles 20:27
Context20:27 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 20:29
Context20:29 All the kingdoms of the surrounding lands were afraid of God 38 when they heard how the Lord had fought against Israel’s enemies.
2 Chronicles 21:7
Context21:7 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty 39 because of the promise 40 he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty. 41
2 Chronicles 23:12
Context23:12 When Athaliah heard the royal guard 42 shouting and praising the king, she joined the crowd 43 at the Lord’s temple.
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. 44
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 24:19
Context24:19 The Lord sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. 45 They warned 46 the people, but they would not pay attention.
2 Chronicles 24:21
Context24:21 They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 26:5
Context26:5 He followed 47 God during the lifetime of 48 Zechariah, who taught him how to honor God. As long as he followed 49 the Lord, God caused him to succeed. 50
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. 51
2 Chronicles 28:6
Context28:6 In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. 52
2 Chronicles 28:10-11
Context28:10 And now you are planning 53 to enslave 54 the people 55 of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God? 28:11 Now listen to me! Send back those you have seized from your brothers, for the Lord is very angry at you!” 56
2 Chronicles 28:21
Context28:21 Ahaz gathered riches 57 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 28:25
Context28:25 In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the Lord God of his ancestors.
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 29:10-11
Context29:10 Now I intend 58 to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger. 59 29:11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to serve in his presence and offer sacrifices.” 60
2 Chronicles 30:7
Context30:7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, 61 provoking him to destroy them, 62 as you can see.
2 Chronicles 30:12
Context30:12 In Judah God moved the people to unite and carry out the edict the king and the officers had issued at the Lord’s command. 63
2 Chronicles 30:19
Context30:19 everyone who has determined to follow God, 64 the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.” 65
2 Chronicles 30:27
Context30:27 The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The Lord responded favorably to them 66 as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.
2 Chronicles 31:4
Context31:4 He ordered 67 the people living in Jerusalem 68 to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient 69 to the law of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 31:8
Context31:8 When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the Lord and pronounced blessings on his people Israel. 70
2 Chronicles 32:23
Context32:23 Many were bringing presents 71 to the Lord in Jerusalem and precious gifts to King Hezekiah of Judah. From that time on he was respected by 72 all the nations.
2 Chronicles 33:12
Context33:12 In his pain 73 Manasseh 74 asked the Lord his God for mercy 75 and truly 76 humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. 77
2 Chronicles 34:2
Context34:2 He did what the Lord approved 78 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; 79 he did not deviate to the right or the left.
2 Chronicles 34:10
Context34:10 They handed it over to the construction foremen 80 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it. 81
2 Chronicles 34:15
Context34:15 Hilkiah informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.
2 Chronicles 34:17
Context34:17 They melted down the silver in the Lord’s temple 82 and handed it over to the supervisors of the construction foremen.”
2 Chronicles 34:23
Context34:23 and she said to them: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Say this to the man who sent you to me:
2 Chronicles 35:1-2
Context35:1 Josiah observed a Passover festival for the Lord in Jerusalem. 83 They slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month. 35:2 He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 35:12
Context35:12 They reserved the burnt offerings and the cattle for the family divisions of the people to present to the Lord, as prescribed in the scroll of Moses. 84
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 85
2 Chronicles 36:7
Context36:7 Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace 86 there. 87
2 Chronicles 36:9
Context36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen 88 years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. 89 He did evil in the sight of 90 the Lord.
2 Chronicles 36:15
Context36:15 The Lord God of their ancestors 91 continually warned them through his messengers, 92 for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place.
2 Chronicles 36:19
Context36:19 They burned down the Lord’s temple and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. 93 They burned all its fortified buildings and destroyed all its valuable items.
2 Chronicles 36:21
Context36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. 94 The land experienced 95 its sabbatical years; 96 it remained desolate for seventy years, 97 as prophesied. 98
1 tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 12). Some medieval Hebrew
2 tc Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45.
3 tn Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
4 tn Heb “were not able to stand to serve.”
5 tn The Hebrew text reads, “fulfilled by his hand,” but the phrase “by his hand” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
6 tn The Hebrew text reads, “promised by his mouth,” but the phrase “by his mouth” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
7 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”
8 tn Heb “turn to.”
9 tn Heb “by listening to.”
10 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
11 tn Heb “praying before you.”
12 tn Or “the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
13 tn Heb “to the chamber of the runners.”
14 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15 tn Heb “the anger of the
16 tn Heb “and also in Judah there were good things.”
17 tn Heb “Do you not know that the
sn For other references to a “covenant of salt,” see Lev 2:13 and Num 18:19.
18 tn Heb “at that time.”
19 tn Heb “and he allowed himself to be found by them.”
20 tn Or “In that day.”
21 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (tso’n) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.
22 tn Heb “whether small or great.”
23 tn Heb “father.”
24 tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”
25 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
26 tn Heb “Listen.”
27 tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”
28 tn Here בָּעַר (ba’ar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.
29 tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek the
30 tn Heb “for the judgment of the
31 tc Heb “and to conduct a case [or “for controversy”], and they returned [to] Jerusalem.” Some emend וַיָּשֻׁבוּ (vayyashuvu, “and they returned”) to וַיֵּשְׁבוּ (vayyeshÿvu, “and they lived [in]”). The present translation assumes an emendation to יֹשְׁבֵי (yoshÿvey, “residents of”).
32 tn Heb “and he set his face to seek the
33 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
34 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.
35 tn Heb “to worship the
36 tn Heb “set ambushers against.” This is probably idiomatic here for launching a surprise attack.
37 tn Heb “the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir.”
38 tn Heb “and the terror of God [or “a great terror”] was upon all the kingdoms of the lands.” It is uncertain if אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) should be understood as a proper name here (“God”), or taken in an idiomatic superlative sense.
39 tn Heb “house.”
40 tn Or “covenant.”
41 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.
42 tn Heb “and Athaliah heard the sound of the people, the runners.”
43 tn Heb “she came to the people.”
44 tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and [between] all the people and [between] the king, to become a people for the
45 tn Heb “and he sent among them prophets to bring them back to the
46 tn Heb “testified among.”
47 tn Heb “sought.”
48 tn Heb “in the days of.”
49 tn Heb “in the days of his seeking.”
50 tn Or “prosper.”
51 tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.
52 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 25).
53 tn Heb “saying.”
54 tn Heb “to enslave as male servants and female servants.”
55 tn Heb “sons.”
56 tn Heb “for the rage of the anger of the
57 tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).
58 tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”
59 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.
60 tn Heb “to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and sacrificers.”
61 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).
62 tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).
63 tn Heb “also in Judah the hand of God was to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and the officials by the word of the
64 tn Heb “everyone [who] has prepared his heart to seek God.”
65 tn Heb “and not according to the purification of the holy place.”
66 tn Heb “and it was heard with their voice.” BDB 1034 s.v. שָׁמַע Niph.4 interprets this to mean “hearing was granted to their voice.” It is possible that the name יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the
67 tn Heb “said to.”
68 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
69 tn Heb “might hold firmly.”
70 tn Heb “they blessed the
71 tn Or perhaps, “offerings.”
72 tn Heb “lifted up in the eyes of.”
73 tn Or “distress.”
74 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
75 tn Heb “appeased the face of the
76 tn Or “greatly.”
77 tn Heb “fathers.”
78 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
79 tn Heb “and walked in the ways of David his father.”
80 tn Heb “doer[s] of the work.”
81 tn Heb “and they gave it to the doers of the work who were working in the house of the
82 tn Heb “that was found in the house of the
83 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
84 tn Heb “and they put aside the burnt offering[s] to give them to the divisions of the house of the fathers for the sons of the people to bring near to the
85 tn Heb “and his faithful acts according to what is written in the law of the
86 tn Or “temple.”
87 tn Heb “in Babylon.” Repeating the proper name “Babylon” here would be redundant in contemporary English, so “there” has been used in the translation.
88 tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”
89 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
90 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
91 tn Heb “fathers.”
92 tn Heb “and the
93 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
94 tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the
95 tn Or “accepted.”
96 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.
97 sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.
98 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
