Discovery Box2 Chronicles 2:6 
Context2:6 Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky 1 and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him. 2
2 Chronicles 5:2
Context5:2 Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders – all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families – in Jerusalem, 3 so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David 4 (that is, Zion). 5
2 Chronicles 6:23
Context6:23 listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. 6
2 Chronicles 6:34
Context6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, 7 and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, 8
2 Chronicles 7:10
Context7:10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon 9 sent the people home. They left 10 happy and contented 11 because of the good the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 7:14
Context7:14 if my people, who belong to me, 12 humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, 13 and repudiate their sinful practices, 14 then I will respond 15 from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 16
2 Chronicles 9:4
Context9:4 the food in his banquet hall, 17 his servants and attendants 18 in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, 19 she was amazed. 20
2 Chronicles 9:11
Context9:11 With the timber the king made steps 21 for the Lord’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments 22 for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah prior to that. 23 )
2 Chronicles 12:5
Context12:5 Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’” 24
2 Chronicles 12:9
Context12:9 King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles 14:13
Context14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; 25 they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah 26 carried off a huge amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 16:12
Context16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. 27 Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors. 28
2 Chronicles 18:14
Context18:14 Micaiah 29 came before the king and the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; they will be handed over to you.” 30
2 Chronicles 18:16
Context18:16 Micaiah 31 replied, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”
2 Chronicles 18:21
Context18:21 He replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The Lord 32 said, ‘Deceive and overpower him. 33 Go out and do as you have proposed.’
2 Chronicles 20:37
Context20:37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, “Because 34 you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea. 35
2 Chronicles 23:6
Context23:6 No one must enter the Lord’s temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 23:20
Context23:20 He summoned 36 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 24:12
Context24:12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to the construction foremen 37 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and craftsmen to repair the Lord’s temple, as well as those skilled in working with iron and bronze to restore the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 24:22
Context24:22 King Joash disregarded 38 the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s 39 son. As Zechariah 40 was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” 41
2 Chronicles 25:27
Context25:27 From the time Amaziah turned from following the Lord, conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem, 42 so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him 43 and they killed him there.
2 Chronicles 26:20
Context26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at 44 him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king 45 himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.
2 Chronicles 28:1
Context28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 46 He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David. 47
2 Chronicles 28:3
Context28:3 He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, 48 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 49 whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 29:18
Context29:18 They went to King Hezekiah and said: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment.
2 Chronicles 29:21
Context29:21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. 50 The king 51 told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 30:17
Context30:17 Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered 52 the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the Lord. 53
2 Chronicles 30:21
Context30:21 The Israelites who were in Jerusalem observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy. The Levites and priests were praising the Lord every day with all their might. 54
2 Chronicles 31:2-3
Context31:2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks 55 – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary. 56
31:3 The king contributed 57 some of what he owned for burnt sacrifices, including the morning and evening burnt sacrifices and the burnt sacrifices made on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other appointed times prescribed 58 in the law of the Lord.
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. 59
2 Chronicles 33:3
Context33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 60 and worshiped 61 them.
2 Chronicles 35:12
Context35:12 They reserved the burnt offerings and the cattle for the family divisions of the people to present to the Lord, as prescribed in the scroll of Moses. 62
2 Chronicles 36:10
Context36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought 63 to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative 64 Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:14
Context36:14 All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. 65 They defiled the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
1 tn Or “heavens” (also in v. 12). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
2 tn Heb “Who retains strength to build for him a house, for the heavens and the heavens of heavens do not contain him? And who am I that I should build for him a house, except to sacrifice before him?”
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
5 tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
6 tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by repaying the guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”
7 tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”
8 tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”
9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
10 tn The words “they left” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
11 tn Heb “good of heart.”
12 tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.
13 tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.
14 tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”
15 tn Heb “hear.”
16 sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.
17 tn Heb “the food on his table.”
18 tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”
19 tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the
20 tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”
21 tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”
22 tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).
23 tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”
24 tn Heb “also I have rejected you into the hand of Shishak.”
25 tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”
26 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
27 tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”
28 tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the
29 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
30 sn One does not expect Micaiah, having just vowed to speak only what the
31 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
32 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
33 tn The Hebrew text has two imperfects connected by וְגַם (vÿgam). These verbs could be translated as specific futures, “you will deceive and also you will prevail,” in which case the
34 tn Heb “when.”
35 tn Heb “to go to Tarshish.”
36 tn Heb “took.”
37 tn Heb “doers of the work.”
38 tn Heb “did not remember.”
39 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
41 tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.
42 tn Heb “and they conspired against him [with] a conspiracy in Jerusalem.”
43 tn Heb “and they sent after him to Lachish.”
44 tn Heb “turned toward.”
45 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
46 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
47 tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the
48 sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB “burnt his sons in the fire”; NASB “burned his sons in the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
49 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
50 sn Perhaps these terms refer metonymically to the royal court, the priests and Levites, and the people, respectively.
51 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
52 tn Heb “were over the slaughter of.”
53 tn Heb “of everyone not pure to consecrate to the
54 tn Heb “and they were praising the
55 tn Heb “and Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, each in accordance with his service for the priests and for the Levites.”
56 tn Heb “in the gates of the encampments of the
57 tn Heb “the portion of the king [was].”
58 tn Heb “as written.”
59 tn Heb “in addition enrolling them by males from a son of three years and upwards, to everyone who enters the house of the
60 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
61 tn Or “served.”
62 tn Heb “and they put aside the burnt offering[s] to give them to the divisions of the house of the fathers for the sons of the people to bring near to the
63 tn Heb “sent and brought him.”
64 tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).
65 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
