2 Chronicles 2:3
Context2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram 1 of Tyre: 2 “Help me 3 as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs 4 for the construction of his palace. 5
2 Chronicles 7:21
Context7:21 As for this temple, which was once majestic, 6 everyone who passes by it will be shocked and say, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’
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! 7 Your wisdom surpasses what was reported to me.
2 Chronicles 16:8
Context16:8 Did not the Cushites and Libyans have a huge army with chariots and a very large number of horsemen? But when you relied on the Lord, he handed them over to you!
2 Chronicles 16:12
Context16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. 8 Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors. 9
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 21:6
Context21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. 10 He did evil in the sight of 11 the Lord.
2 Chronicles 21:19
Context21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. 12 His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. 13
2 Chronicles 22:4
Context22:4 He did evil in the sight of 14 the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they 15 gave him advice that led to his destruction.
2 Chronicles 28:1
Context28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 16 He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David. 17
2 Chronicles 28:27
Context28:27 Ahaz passed away 18 and was buried in the City of David; 19 they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 29:6-7
Context29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of 20 the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned 21 away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. 22 29:7 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 32:30
Context32:30 Hezekiah dammed up the source of the waters of the Upper Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the City of David. 23 Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.
2 Chronicles 33:22
Context33:22 He did evil in the sight of 24 the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped 25 them.
2 Chronicles 36:5
Context36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. 26 He did evil in the sight of 27 the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 36:17
Context36:17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered 28 their young men in their temple. 29 He did not spare 30 young men or women, or even the old and aging. God 31 handed everyone over to him.
1 tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew
2 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
3 tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”
6 tn Heb “and this house which was high/elevated.” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”
7 tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”
8 tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”
9 tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the
10 tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”
11 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
12 tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”
13 tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”
14 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
15 tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.
16 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
17 tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the
18 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
19 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
20 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
21 tn Heb “turned their faces.”
22 tn Heb “and turned the back.”
23 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
24 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
25 tn Or “served.”
26 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
27 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
28 tn Heb “killed with the sword.”
29 tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”
30 tn Or “show compassion to.”
31 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.