Discovery Box2 Chronicles 6:5 
Context6:5 He told David, 1 ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. 2 Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 16:7
Context16:7 At that time Hanani the prophet 3 visited King Asa of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied on the king of Syria and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.
2 Chronicles 22:9
Context22:9 He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria. 4 They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned, 5 “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with his whole heart.” There was no one in Ahaziah’s family strong enough to rule in his place. 6
2 Chronicles 25:4
Context25:4 However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, 7 “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, 8 and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. 9 A man must be executed only for his own sin.” 10
2 Chronicles 25:16
Context25:16 While he was speaking, Amaziah 11 said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” 12 So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided 13 to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”
2 Chronicles 33:6
Context33:6 He passed his sons through the fire 14 in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. 15 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. 16
2 Chronicles 34:33
Context34:33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged 17 all who were in Israel to worship the Lord their God. Throughout the rest of his reign 18 they did not turn aside from following the Lord God of their ancestors.
2 Chronicles 35:15
Context35:15 The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their posts, as prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet. 19 The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them.
1 tn Heb “saying.”
2 tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.” Here “name” is used by metonymy for the
3 tn Heb “the seer.”
4 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
5 tn Heb “they said.”
6 tn Heb “and there was no one belonging to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for kingship.”
7 tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the
8 tn Heb “on account of sons.”
9 tn Heb “on account of fathers.”
10 sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.
11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “Stop yourself! Why should they strike you down?”
13 tn The verb יָעַץ (ya’ats, “has decided”) is from the same root as יוֹעֵץ (yo’ets, “counselor”) in v. 16 and עֵצָה (’etsah, “advice”) later in v. 16. The wordplay highlights the appropriate nature of the divine punishment. Amaziah rejected the counsel of God’s prophet; now he would be the victim of God’s “counsel.”
14 tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
15 tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.
16 tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the
17 tn Or “caused, forced.”
18 tn Heb “all his days.”
19 tn Or “seer.”
