2 Chronicles 1:9
Context1:9 Now, Lord God, may your promise 1 to my father David be realized, 2 for you have made me king over a great nation as numerous as the dust of the earth.
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 2:8
Context2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum 8 trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept 9 at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants
2 Chronicles 7:19
Context7:19 “But if you people 10 ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, 11 and decide to serve and worship other gods, 12
2 Chronicles 9:6
Context9:6 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! 13 Your wisdom surpasses what was reported to me.
2 Chronicles 10:6
Context10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 14 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 15 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
2 Chronicles 18:3
Context18:3 King Ahab of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I will support you; my army is at your disposal and will support you in battle.” 16
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 18:33
Context18:33 Now an archer shot an arrow at random 17 and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king 18 ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, 19 for I am wounded.”
2 Chronicles 25:17
Context25:17 After King Amaziah of Judah consulted with his advisers, 20 he sent this message to the king of Israel, Joash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, “Come, face me on the battlefield.” 21
2 Chronicles 29:5
Context29:5 He said to them: “Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the Lord God of your ancestors! 22 Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean!
1 tn Heb “you word.”
2 tn Or “be firm, established.”
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 This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12; cf. NLT. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.
9 tn Heb “know.”
10 tn The Hebrew pronoun is plural, suggesting that Solomon and all Israel (or perhaps Solomon and his successors) are in view. To convey this to the English reader, the translation “you people” has been employed.
11 tn Heb “which I placed before you.”
12 tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
13 tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”
14 tn Heb “stood before.”
15 tn Heb “saying.”
16 tn Heb “Like me, like you; and like your people, my people; and with you in battle.”
17 tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).
18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “camp.”
20 tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
21 tn Heb “let us look at each other [in the] face.” The expression refers here not to a visit but to meeting in battle. See v. 21.
22 tn Heb “fathers.”