Discovery Box2 Chronicles 4:4 
Context4:4 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. 1
2 Chronicles 4:6
Context4:6 He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.”
2 Chronicles 5:10
Context5:10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 2 (It was there that 3 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.)
2 Chronicles 6:27
Context6:27 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly 4 you will then teach them the right way to live 5 and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. 6
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 9:11
Context9:11 With the timber the king made steps 8 for the Lord’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments 9 for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah prior to that. 10 )
2 Chronicles 9:16
Context9:16 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; 300 measures 11 of gold were used for each of those shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. 12
2 Chronicles 10:6
Context10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 13 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 14 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
2 Chronicles 10:11
Context10:11 My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. 15 My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.’” 16
2 Chronicles 10:18
Context10:18 King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, 17 the supervisor of the work crews, out after them, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 18
2 Chronicles 11:14
Context11:14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord’s priests.
2 Chronicles 11:16
Context11:16 Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the Lord God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem 19 to sacrifice to the Lord God of their ancestors. 20
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. 21
2 Chronicles 14:13-14
Context14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; 22 they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah 23 carried off a huge amount of plunder. 14:14 They defeated all the cities surrounding Gerar, for the Lord caused them to panic. 24 The men of Judah 25 looted all the cities, for they contained a huge amount of goods. 26
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 18:5
Context18:5 So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” 27 They said, “Attack! God 28 will hand it over to the king.”
2 Chronicles 18:9
Context18:9 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, dressed in their royal robes, at the threshing floor at 29 the entrance of the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying before them.
2 Chronicles 18:31
Context18:31 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The Lord helped him; God lured them away from him.
2 Chronicles 19:4
Context19:4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. 30 He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow 31 the Lord God of their ancestors. 32
2 Chronicles 20:12
Context20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don’t know what we should do; we look to you for help.” 33
2 Chronicles 20:25
Context20:25 Jehoshaphat and his men 34 went to gather the plunder; they found a huge amount of supplies, clothing 35 and valuable items. They carried away everything they could. 36 There was so much plunder, it took them three days to haul it off. 37
2 Chronicles 21:3
Context21:3 Their father gave them many presents, including silver, gold, and other precious items, along with fortified cities in Judah. But he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.
2 Chronicles 22:8
Context22:8 While Jehu was dishing out punishment to Ahab’s family, he discovered the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s relatives who were serving Ahaziah and killed them.
2 Chronicles 23:3
Context23:3 and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada 38 said to them, “The king’s son will rule, just as the Lord promised David’s descendants.
2 Chronicles 28:13
Context28:13 They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the Lord? 39 Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” 40
2 Chronicles 28:24
Context28:24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 29:5
Context29:5 He said to them: “Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the Lord God of your ancestors! 41 Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean!
2 Chronicles 29:8
Context29:8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, 42 as you can see with your own eyes.
2 Chronicles 29:16
Context29:16 The priests then entered the Lord’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside. 43 The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley.
2 Chronicles 29:24
Context29:24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed 44 that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:1
Context30:1 Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 45 and observe a Passover celebration for the Lord God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:16
Context30:16 They stood at their posts according to the regulations outlined in the law of Moses, the man of God. The priests were splashing the blood as the Levites handed it to them. 46
2 Chronicles 30:24
Context30:24 King Hezekiah of Judah supplied 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep 47 for the assembly, while the officials supplied them 48 with 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. Many priests consecrated themselves.
2 Chronicles 32:18
Context32:18 They called out loudly in the Judahite dialect to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, trying to scare and terrify them so they could seize the city.
2 Chronicles 32:22
Context32:22 The Lord delivered Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem from the power of King Sennacherib of Assyria and from all the other nations. 49 He made them secure on every side. 50
2 Chronicles 32:26
Context32:26 But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. 51
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. 52 Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.
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 53 and worshiped 54 them.
2 Chronicles 33:8
Context33:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, 55 provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.”
2 Chronicles 33:11
Context33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, 56 bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 33:15
Context33:15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.
2 Chronicles 33:22
Context33:22 He did evil in the sight of 57 the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped 58 them.
2 Chronicles 35:13
Context35:13 They cooked the Passover sacrifices over the open fire as prescribed and cooked the consecrated offerings in pots, kettles, and pans. They quickly served them to all the people.
2 Chronicles 36:17
Context36:17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered 59 their young men in their temple. 60 He did not spare 61 young men or women, or even the old and aging. God 62 handed everyone over to him.
1 tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”
2 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1).
3 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
4 tn The present translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense (“Certainly”). Other translation have “indeed” (NASB), “when” (NRSV), “so” (NEB), or leave the word untranslated (NIV).
5 tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”
6 tn Or “for an inheritance.”
7 tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”
8 tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”
9 tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).
10 tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”
11 tn The Hebrew text has simply “300,” with no unit of measure given.
12 sn This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest. See 1 Kgs 7:2.
13 tn Heb “stood before.”
14 tn Heb “saying.”
15 tn Heb “and now my father placed upon you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke.”
16 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.
17 sn In the parallel account in 1 Kgs 12:18 this name appears as “Adoniram.”
18 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
19 tn Heb “and after them from all the tribes of Israel, the ones giving their heart[s] to seek the
20 tn Heb “fathers.”
21 tn Heb “and priests serving the
22 tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”
23 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “for the terror of the
25 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn Heb “for great plunder was in them.”
27 tn Heb “Should we go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”
28 tn Though Jehoshaphat had requested an oracle from “the
29 tn Heb “at,” which in this case probably means “near.”
30 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
31 tn Heb “and turned them back to.”
32 tn Heb “fathers.”
33 tn Heb “for [or “indeed”] upon you are our eyes.”
34 tn Or “army.”
35 tc The MT reads פְגָרִים (fÿgarim, “corpses”), but this seems odd among a list of plunder. A few medieval Hebrew
36 tn Heb “and they snatched away for themselves so that there was no carrying away.”
37 tn Heb “and they were three days looting the plunder for it was great.”
38 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada the priest, cf. v. 8) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 tn Heb “for to the guilt of the
40 tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”
41 tn Heb “fathers.”
42 tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”
43 tn Heb “in the temple of the
44 tn Heb “said.”
45 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
46 tn Heb “from the hand of the Levites.”
47 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (ts’on, translated “sheep” twice in this verse) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.
48 tn Heb “the assembly.” The pronoun “them” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
49 tn Heb “and from the hand of all.”
50 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and he led him from all around.” However, the present translation assumes an emendation to וַיָּנַח לָהֶם מִסָּבִיב (vayyanakh lahem missaviv, “and he gave rest to them from all around”). See 2 Chr 15:15 and 20:30.
51 tn Heb “and Hezekiah humbled himself in the height of his heart, he and the residents of Jerusalem, and the anger of the
52 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
53 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.
54 tn Or “served.”
55 tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I established for their fathers.”
56 tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”
57 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
58 tn Or “served.”
59 tn Heb “killed with the sword.”
60 tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”
61 tn Or “show compassion to.”
62 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
