2 Chronicles 16:4
Context16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. 1 They conquered 2 Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, 3 and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
2 Chronicles 26:16
Context26:16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. 4 He disobeyed 5 the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.
2 Chronicles 29:7
Context29:7 They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:27
Context29:27 Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:12
Context32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 6 the Lord’s 7 high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”
1 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”
2 tn Heb “They struck down.”
3 sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.
4 tn Heb “his heart was high [i.e., proud] to destroy.”
5 tn Or “was unfaithful to.”
6 tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.
7 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the