Discovery Box2 Chronicles 2:1 
ContextSolomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple
2:1 (1:18) 1 Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 2
2 Chronicles 14:4
Context14:4 He ordered Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors 3 and to observe his law and commands. 4
2 Chronicles 24:8
Context24:8 The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple. 5
2 Chronicles 35:23
Context35:23 Archers shot King Josiah; the king ordered his servants, “Take me out of this chariot, 6 for I am seriously wounded.”
1 sn Beginning with 2:1, the verse numbers through 2:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 2:1 ET = 1:18 HT, 2:2 ET = 2:1 HT, 2:3 ET = 2:2 HT, etc., through 2:18 ET = 2:17 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
2 tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the
3 tn Heb “fathers.”
4 tn Heb “the law and the command.”
5 tn Heb “and the king said [it] and they made a chest and placed it in the gate of the house of the
6 tn Heb “carry me away.”
