Discovery Box2 Chronicles 3:3 
Context3:3 Solomon laid the foundation for God’s temple; 1 its length (determined according to the old standard of measure) was 90 feet, and its width 30 feet. 2
2 Chronicles 4:7-8
Context4:7 He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. 4:8 He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls.
2 Chronicles 4:11
Context4:11 Huram Abi 3 made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 4
2 Chronicles 4:16
Context4:16 and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. 5 All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple 6 were made from polished bronze.
2 Chronicles 4:19
Context4:19 Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence 7 was kept,
2 Chronicles 5:14
Context5:14 The priests could not carry out their duties 8 because of the cloud; the Lord’s splendor filled God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 6:8
Context6:8 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. 9
2 Chronicles 6:20
Context6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. 10 May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 11
2 Chronicles 6:22
Context6:22 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, 12
2 Chronicles 6:29
Context6:29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, 13 as they acknowledge their intense pain 14 and spread out their hands toward this temple,
2 Chronicles 7:1
Context7:1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven 15 and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the Lord’s splendor filled the temple.
2 Chronicles 7:5
Context7:5 King Solomon sacrificed 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. Then the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 8:12
Context8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the temple’s porch. 16
2 Chronicles 12:11
Context12:11 Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom. 17
2 Chronicles 15:18
Context15:18 He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. 18
2 Chronicles 20:5
Context20:5 Jehoshaphat stood before the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem 19 at the Lord’s temple, in front of the new courtyard.
2 Chronicles 23:9
Context23:9 Jehoiada the priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and shields 20 that were kept in God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 23:12
Context23:12 When Athaliah heard the royal guard 21 shouting and praising the king, she joined the crowd 22 at the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 23:17
Context23:17 All the people went and demolished 23 the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. 24 They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
2 Chronicles 23:19
Context23:19 He posted guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.
2 Chronicles 24:16
Context24:16 He was buried in the City of David 25 with the kings, because he had accomplished good in Israel and for God and his temple.
2 Chronicles 24:21
Context24:21 They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 27:3
Context27:3 He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel. 26
2 Chronicles 28:21
Context28:21 Ahaz gathered riches 27 from the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.
2 Chronicles 29:3
Context29:3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.
2 Chronicles 30:19
Context30:19 everyone who has determined to follow God, 28 the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.” 29
2 Chronicles 31:21
Context31:21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God. 30
2 Chronicles 33:4
Context33:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.” 31
2 Chronicles 34:15
Context34:15 Hilkiah informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.
2 Chronicles 34:17
Context34:17 They melted down the silver in the Lord’s temple 32 and handed it over to the supervisors of the construction foremen.”
2 Chronicles 35:2
Context35:2 He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.
2 Chronicles 36:7
Context36:7 Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace 33 there. 34
2 Chronicles 36:19
Context36:19 They burned down the Lord’s temple and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. 35 They burned all its fortified buildings and destroyed all its valuable items.
1 tn Heb “and these are the founding of Solomon to build the house of God.”
2 tn Heb “the length [in] cubits by the former measure was sixty cubits, and a width of twenty cubits.” Assuming a length of 18 inches (45 cm) for the standard cubit, the length of the foundation would be 90 feet (27 m) and its width 30 feet (9 m).
3 tn Heb “Huram,” but here this refers to Huram Abi (2 Chr 2:13). The complete name has been used in the translation to avoid possible confusion with King Huram of Tyre.
4 tn Heb “Huram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of God.”
5 tc Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45.
6 tn Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
7 tn Heb “the bread of the face/presence.”
sn This bread offered to God was viewed as a perpetual offering to God. See Lev 24:5-9.
8 tn Heb “were not able to stand to serve.”
9 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”
10 tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”
11 tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”
12 tn Heb “and if the man who sins against his neighbor when one takes up against him a curse to curse him and the curse comes before your altar in this house.”
13 tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”
14 tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”
15 tn Or “the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
16 tn Heb “the porch.”
17 tn Heb “to the chamber of the runners.”
18 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.”
19 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
20 tn The Hebrew text lists two different types of shields here. Most translations render “the large and small shields” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV; NEB “King David’s spears, shields, and bucklers”).
21 tn Heb “and Athaliah heard the sound of the people, the runners.”
22 tn Heb “she came to the people.”
23 tn Or “tore down.”
24 tn Or “images.”
25 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
26 tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.
27 tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).
28 tn Heb “everyone [who] has prepared his heart to seek God.”
29 tn Heb “and not according to the purification of the holy place.”
30 tn Heb “and in all the work which he began with regard to the service of the house of God and with respect to the law and with respect to the commandment, to seek his God; with all his heart he acted and he succeeded.”
31 tn Heb “In Jerusalem my name will be permanently.”
32 tn Heb “that was found in the house of the
33 tn Or “temple.”
34 tn Heb “in Babylon.” Repeating the proper name “Babylon” here would be redundant in contemporary English, so “there” has been used in the translation.
35 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
