2 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 6:4
Context6:4 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled 3 what he promised 4 my father David.
2 Chronicles 6:17
Context6:17 Now, O Lord God of Israel, may the promise you made to your servant David be realized. 5
2 Chronicles 6:19
Context6:19 But respond favorably to 6 your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer 7 the desperate prayer 8 your servant is presenting to you. 9
2 Chronicles 13:10
Context13:10 But as for us, the Lord is our God and we have not rejected him. Aaron’s descendants serve as the Lord’s priests and the Levites assist them with the work. 10
2 Chronicles 13:18
Context13:18 That day 11 the Israelites were defeated; the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the Lord God of their ancestors.
2 Chronicles 15:13
Context15:13 Anyone who would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be executed, whether they were young or old, 12 male or female.
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. 13
2 Chronicles 19:4
Context19:4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. 14 He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow 15 the Lord God of their ancestors. 16
2 Chronicles 19:7
Context19:7 Respect the Lord and make careful decisions, for the Lord our God disapproves of injustice, partiality, and bribery.” 17
2 Chronicles 20:29
Context20:29 All the kingdoms of the surrounding lands were afraid of God 18 when they heard how the Lord had fought against Israel’s enemies.
2 Chronicles 23:9
Context23:9 Jehoiada the priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and shields 19 that were kept in God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 24:7
Context24:7 (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)
2 Chronicles 24:9
Context24:9 An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the Lord the tax that Moses, God’s servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness. 20
2 Chronicles 24:13
Context24:13 They worked hard and made the repairs. 21 They followed the measurements specified for God’s temple and restored it. 22
2 Chronicles 24:16
Context24:16 He was buried in the City of David 23 with the kings, because he had accomplished good in Israel and for God and his temple.
2 Chronicles 28:6
Context28:6 In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. 24
2 Chronicles 29:10
Context29:10 Now I intend 25 to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger. 26
2 Chronicles 30:7
Context30:7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, 27 provoking him to destroy them, 28 as you can see.
2 Chronicles 34:26
Context34:26 Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the Lord: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:
2 Chronicles 36:15
Context36:15 The Lord God of their ancestors 29 continually warned them through his messengers, 30 for he felt compassion for his people and his dwelling place.
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.
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 The Hebrew text reads, “fulfilled by his hand,” but the phrase “by his hand” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
4 tn The Hebrew text reads, “promised by his mouth,” but the phrase “by his mouth” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
5 tn Or “prove to be reliable.”
6 tn Heb “turn to.”
7 tn Heb “by listening to.”
8 tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”
9 tn Heb “praying before you.”
10 tn Heb “and priests serving the
11 tn Heb “at that time.”
12 tn Heb “whether small or great.”
13 tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.”
14 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
15 tn Heb “and turned them back to.”
16 tn Heb “fathers.”
17 tn Heb “and now let the terror of the
18 tn Heb “and the terror of God [or “a great terror”] was upon all the kingdoms of the lands.” It is uncertain if אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) should be understood as a proper name here (“God”), or taken in an idiomatic superlative sense.
19 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”).
20 tn Heb “and they gave voice in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the
21 tn Heb “and the doers of the work worked, and the repairs went up for the work by their hand.”
22 tn Heb “and they caused the house of God to stand according to its measurements and they strengthened it.”
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 “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 25).
25 tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”
26 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention.
27 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).
28 tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).
29 tn Heb “fathers.”
30 tn Heb “and the