Discovery Box2 Chronicles 6:20 
Context6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. 1 May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 2
2 Chronicles 7:18
Context7:18 Then I will establish your dynasty, 3 just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’ 4
2 Chronicles 13:5
Context13:5 Don’t you realize that the Lord God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal agreement? 5
2 Chronicles 18:11
Context18:11 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king!”
2 Chronicles 20:27
Context20:27 Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem with Jehoshaphat leading them; the Lord had given them reason to rejoice over their enemies.
2 Chronicles 21:9
Context21:9 Jehoram crossed over to Zair with his officers and all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. 6
2 Chronicles 25:20
Context25:20 But Amaziah did not heed the warning, 7 for God wanted to hand them over to Joash because they followed the gods of Edom. 8
2 Chronicles 32:6
Context32:6 He appointed military officers over the army 9 and assembled them in the square at the city gate. He encouraged them, 10 saying,
2 Chronicles 34:10
Context34:10 They handed it over to the construction foremen 11 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it. 12
2 Chronicles 34:17
Context34:17 They melted down the silver in the Lord’s temple 13 and handed it over to the supervisors of the construction foremen.”
1 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.’”
2 tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”
3 tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”
4 tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”
5 tn Heb “Do you not know that the
sn For other references to a “covenant of salt,” see Lev 2:13 and Num 18:19.
6 tc Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Jehoram was surrounded and launched a victorious nighttime counterattack. Yet v. 10 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֹתוֹ [’oto, “him”] instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. See also 2 Kgs 8:21.
7 tn Heb “did not listen.”
8 tn Heb “because it was from God in order to give them into the hand because they sought the gods of Edom.”
9 tn Heb “and he placed officers of war over the people.”
10 tn Heb “he spoke to their heart[s].”
11 tn Heb “doer[s] of the work.”
12 tn Heb “and they gave it to the doers of the work who were working in the house of the
13 tn Heb “that was found in the house of the
