2 Chronicles 12:13
Context12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; 1 he 2 was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. 3 Rehoboam’s 4 mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.
2 Chronicles 32:21
Context32:21 The Lord sent a messenger 5 and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib 6 returned home humiliated. 7 When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons 8 struck him down with the sword.
2 Chronicles 33:7
Context33:7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 9
1 tn Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”
2 tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.
3 tn Heb “the city where the
4 tn Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Or “an angel.”
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”
8 tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”
9 tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name permanently” (or perhaps “forever”).