Discovery Box2 Chronicles 2:12 
Context2:12 Huram also said, “Worthy of praise is the Lord God of Israel, who made the sky and the earth! He has given David a wise son who has discernment and insight and will build a temple for the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 1
2 Chronicles 3:11-12
Context3:11 The combined wing span of the cherubs was 30 feet. 2 One of the first cherub’s wings was seven and one-half feet long and touched one wall of the temple; its other wing was also seven and one-half feet long and touched one of the second cherub’s wings. 3 3:12 Likewise one of the second cherub’s wings was seven and one-half feet long and touched the other wall of the temple; its other wing was also seven and one-half feet long and touched one of the first cherub’s wings. 4
2 Chronicles 5:13
Context5:13 The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the Lord, singing: 5 “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple. 6
2 Chronicles 6:5
Context6:5 He told David, 7 ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. 8 Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 6:10
Context6:10 The Lord has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the Lord God of Israel
2 Chronicles 6:33
Context6:33 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. 9 Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, 10 obey 11 you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. 12
2 Chronicles 6:38
Context6:38 When they return to you with all their heart and being 13 in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, 14
2 Chronicles 7:3
Context7:3 When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the Lord’s splendor over the temple, they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement. They worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, 15 “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!”
2 Chronicles 7:7
Context7:7 Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, 16 and the fat from the peace offerings there, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was too small to hold all these offerings. 17
2 Chronicles 15:8
Context15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. 18 He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. 19
2 Chronicles 23:20
Context23:20 He summoned 20 the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of land, and he then led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.
2 Chronicles 24:5
Context24:5 He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.
2 Chronicles 24:27
Context24:27 The list of Joash’s 21 sons, the many prophetic oracles pertaining to him, and the account of his building project on God’s temple are included in the record of the Scroll of the Kings. 22 His son Amaziah replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 25:24
Context25:24 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom, the riches in the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 26:19
Context26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving 23 at the priests, a skin disease 24 appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.
2 Chronicles 26:21
Context26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 25 afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 29:25
Context29:25 King Hezekiah 26 stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, 27 and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)
2 Chronicles 31:10
Context31:10 Azariah, the head priest from the family of Zadok, said to him, “Since the contributions began arriving in the Lord’s temple, we have had plenty to eat and have a large quantity left over. For the Lord has blessed his people, and this large amount remains.”
2 Chronicles 31:16
Context31:16 They made disbursements to all the males three years old and up who were listed in the genealogical records – to all who would enter the Lord’s temple to serve on a daily basis and fulfill their duties as assigned to their divisions. 28
2 Chronicles 32:21
Context32:21 The Lord sent a messenger 29 and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib 30 returned home humiliated. 31 When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons 32 struck him down with the sword.
2 Chronicles 34:9
Context34:9 They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of 33 Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of 34 Judah and Benjamin and the residents of 35 Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 35:3
Context35:3 He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the Lord, “Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don’t carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel!
2 Chronicles 36:23
Context36:23 It read: “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord God of the heavens has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build for him a temple in Jerusalem 36 in Judah. May the Lord your God energize you who belong to his people, so you may be able to go back there!” 37
1 tn Heb “who has given to David a wise son [who] knows discernment and insight, who will build a house for the
2 tn Heb “and the wings of the cherubs, their length was twenty cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the wingspan of the cherubs would have been 30 feet (9 m).
3 tn Heb “the wing of the one was five cubits from the touching of the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits from the touching of the wing of the other cherub.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), each wing would have been 7.5 feet (2.25 m) long.
4 tn Heb “and the wing of the one (הָאֶחָד, ha’ekhad, “the one”; this should probably be emended to הָאַחֵר, ha’akher, “the other”) cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing was five cubits, clinging to the wing of the other cherub.”
5 tn Heb “like one were the trumpeters and the musicians, causing one voice to be heard, praising and giving thanks to the
6 tn Heb “and the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the
7 tn Heb “saying.”
8 tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.” Here “name” is used by metonymy for the
9 tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”
10 tn Heb “name.” See the note on “reputation” in v. 32.
11 tn Heb “fear.”
12 tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.
13 tn Or “soul.”
14 tn Heb “your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your honor
15 tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
16 tc The Hebrew text omits reference to the grain offerings at this point, but note that they are included both in the list in the second half of the verse (see note on “offerings” at the end of this verse) and in the parallel account in 1 Kgs 8:64. The construction וְאֶת־הַמִּנְחָה (vÿ’et-hamminkhah; vav [ו] + accusative sign + noun with article; “grain offerings”) was probably omitted accidentally by homoioarcton. Note the וְאֶת (vÿ’et) that immediately follows.
17 tn Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.” Because this is redundant, the translation employs a summary phrase: “all these offerings.”
18 tn Heb “strengthened himself.”
19 tn Heb “the porch of the
20 tn Heb “took.”
21 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “And his sons and the abundance of the oracle[s] against him, and the founding of the house of God, look are they not written on the writing of the scroll of the kings?”
23 tn Heb “angry.”
24 tn Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s disease). See 2 Kgs 5:1.
25 tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.
26 tn Heb “he”; the referent (King Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
27 tn Or “seer.”
28 tn Heb “in addition enrolling them by males from a son of three years and upwards, to everyone who enters the house of the
29 tn Or “an angel.”
30 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
31 tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”
32 tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”
33 tn Heb “from Manasseh and Ephraim.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Manasseh and Ephraim” here by metonymy for the people of Manasseh and Ephraim.
34 tn Heb “all Judah and Benjamin.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Judah and Benjamin” here by metonymy for the people of Judah and Benjamin.
35 tc The Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the reading, “and the residents of.” The marginal reading (Qere) is “and they returned.”
36 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
37 tn Heb “Whoever [is] among you from all his people – may the
