2 Chronicles 4:5
Context4:5 It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons. 1
2 Chronicles 23:17
Context23:17 All the people went and demolished 2 the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. 3 They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
2 Chronicles 36:21
Context36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. 4 The land experienced 5 its sabbatical years; 6 it remained desolate for seventy years, 7 as prophesied. 8
1 tn Heb “3,000 baths” (note that the capacity is given in 1 Kings 7:26 as “2,000 baths”). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so 3,000 baths was a quantity of about 18,000 gallons (66,000 liters).
2 tn Or “tore down.”
3 tn Or “images.”
4 tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the
5 tn Or “accepted.”
6 sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile.
7 sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.
8 tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”
sn Cyrus’ edict (see vv. 22-23) occurred about fifty years after the fall of Jerusalem in 586