Discovery Box2 Chronicles 2:7 
Context2:7 “Now send me a man who is skilled in working with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as purple, crimson, and violet colored fabrics, and who knows how to engrave. He will work with my skilled craftsmen here in Jerusalem 1 and Judah, whom my father David provided.
2 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. 2
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: 3 “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple. 4
2 Chronicles 6:5
Context6:5 He told David, 5 ‘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. 6 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 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, 7 “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!”
2 Chronicles 7:6-7
Context7:6 The priests stood in their assigned spots, along with the Levites who had the musical instruments used for praising the Lord. 8 (These were the ones King David made for giving thanks to the Lord and which were used by David when he offered praise, saying, “Certainly his loyal love endures.”) 9 Opposite the Levites, 10 the priests were blowing the trumpets, while all Israel stood there. 7:7 Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, 11 and the fat from the peace offerings there, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was too small to hold all these offerings. 12
2 Chronicles 10:14
Context10:14 and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; 13 I will make them even heavier. 14 My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.” 15
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.’” 16
2 Chronicles 15:9
Context15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers 17 from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live 18 when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
2 Chronicles 18:7
Context18:7 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. 19 But I despise 20 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but always 21 disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 22 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things!”
2 Chronicles 19:2
Context19:2 the prophet 23 Jehu son of Hanani confronted him; 24 he said to King Jehoshaphat, “Is it right to help the wicked and be an ally of those who oppose the Lord? 25 Because you have done this the Lord is angry with you! 26
2 Chronicles 20:15
Context20:15 He said: “Pay attention, all you people of Judah, 27 residents of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat! This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Don’t be afraid and don’t panic 28 because of this huge army! For the battle is not yours, but God’s.
2 Chronicles 23:1
Context23:1 In the seventh year Jehoiada made a bold move. He made a pact 29 with the officers of the units of hundreds: Azariah son of Jehoram, Ishmael son of Jehochanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.
2 Chronicles 23:14
Context23:14 Jehoiada the priest sent out the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, and ordered them, “Bring her outside the temple to the guards. 30 Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple. 31
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 24:24
Context24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, 32 for the people of Judah 33 had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians 34 gave Joash what he deserved. 35
2 Chronicles 25:5
Context25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah 36 and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age 37 equipped with spears and shields. 38
2 Chronicles 25:16
Context25:16 While he was speaking, Amaziah 39 said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” 40 So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided 41 to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”
2 Chronicles 25:23
Context25:23 King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet. 42
2 Chronicles 26:19
Context26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving 43 at the priests, a skin disease 44 appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.
2 Chronicles 27:5
Context27:5 He launched a military campaign 45 against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites paid him 100 talents 46 of silver, 10,000 kors 47 of wheat, and 10,000 kors 48 of barley. The Ammonites also paid this same amount of annual tribute the next two years. 49
2 Chronicles 30:6
Context30:6 Messengers 50 delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.
This royal edict read: 51 “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return 52 to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. 53
2 Chronicles 30:9
Context30:9 For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The Lord your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you 54 if you return to him.”
2 Chronicles 32:17
Context32:17 He wrote letters mocking the Lord God of Israel and insulting him with these words: 55 “The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah’s god rescue his people from my power.” 56
2 Chronicles 34:30
Context34:30 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.
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 35:21
Context35:21 Necho 57 sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? 58 I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. 59 God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” 60
2 Chronicles 36:18
Context36:18 He carried away to Babylon all the items in God’s temple, whether large or small, as well as what was in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king and his officials.
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 61 in Judah. May the Lord your God energize you who belong to his people, so you may be able to go back there!” 62
1 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
2 tn Heb “who has given to David a wise son [who] knows discernment and insight, who will build a house for the
3 tn Heb “like one were the trumpeters and the musicians, causing one voice to be heard, praising and giving thanks to the
4 tn Heb “and the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the
5 tn Heb “saying.”
6 tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.” Here “name” is used by metonymy for the
7 tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
8 tn Heb “and the priests were standing at their posts, and the Levites with the instruments of music of the
9 tn Heb “which David the king made to give thanks to the
10 tn Heb “opposite them”; the referent (the Levites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 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.
12 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.”
13 tc The Hebrew text reads, “I will make heavy your yoke,” but many medieval Hebrew
14 tn Heb “but I will add to your yoke.”
15 tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I [will punish you] with scorpions.” “Scorpions” might allude to some type of torture, but more likely it refers to a type of whip that inflicts an especially biting, painful wound.
16 tn Heb “also I have rejected you into the hand of Shishak.”
17 tn Or “resident aliens.”
18 tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”
19 tn Heb “to seek the
20 tn Or “hate.”
21 tn Heb “all his days.”
22 tn The words “his name is” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
23 tn Or “seer.”
24 tn Heb “went out to his face.”
25 tn Heb “and love those who hate the
26 tn Heb “and because of this upon you is anger from before the
27 tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the people of Judah. Unlike the previous instance in v. 13 where infants, wives, and children are mentioned separately, this reference appears to include them all.
28 tn Or perhaps “don’t get discouraged.”
29 tn Or “covenant.”
30 tn Heb “ranks.”
31 tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Do not put her to death in the house of the
32 tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the
33 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
34 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
35 tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”
36 tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy here for the people of Judah.
37 tn Heb “young men going out to war.”
38 tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”
39 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Heb “Stop yourself! Why should they strike you down?”
41 tn The verb יָעַץ (ya’ats, “has decided”) is from the same root as יוֹעֵץ (yo’ets, “counselor”) in v. 16 and עֵצָה (’etsah, “advice”) later in v. 16. The wordplay highlights the appropriate nature of the divine punishment. Amaziah rejected the counsel of God’s prophet; now he would be the victim of God’s “counsel.”
42 tn Heb “400 cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the distance would have been about 600 feet (180 m).
43 tn Heb “angry.”
44 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.
45 tn Heb “he fought with.”
46 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).
47 sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).
48 tn Heb “10,000 kors of wheat and 10,000 of barley.” The unit of measure of the barley is omitted in the Hebrew text, but is understood to be “kors,” the same as the measures of wheat.
49 tn Heb “This the sons of Ammon brought to him, and in the second year and the third.”
50 tn Heb “the runners.”
51 tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”
52 tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
53 tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”
54 tn Heb “turn [his] face from you.”
55 tn Heb “and speaking against him, saying.”
56 tn Heb “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”
57 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
58 tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”
59 tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”
60 tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”
61 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
62 tn Heb “Whoever [is] among you from all his people – may the
