2 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 6:10
Context6:10 The Lord has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the Lord God of Israel
2 Chronicles 6:16
Context6:16 Now, O Lord God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, 3 provided that your descendants watch their step and obey my law as you have done.’ 4
2 Chronicles 21:13
Context21:13 but have instead followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. You encouraged the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord, just as the family of Ahab does in Israel. 5 You also killed your brothers, members of your father’s family, 6 who were better than you.
2 Chronicles 30:5-6
Context30:5 So they sent an edict 7 throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people 8 to come and observe a Passover for the Lord God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law. 9 30:6 Messengers 10 delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.
This royal edict read: 11 “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return 12 to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. 13
2 Chronicles 33:18
Context33:18 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets 14 spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded 15 in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
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 “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”
4 tn Heb “guard their way by walking in my law as you have walked before me.”
5 tn Heb “and you walked in the way of the kings of Israel and caused Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to commit adultery, like the house of Ahab causes to commit adultery.”
6 tn Heb “the house of your father.”
7 tn Heb “and they caused to stand a word to cause a voice to pass through.”
8 tn The words “summoning the people” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
9 tn Heb “because not for abundance had they done as written.”
10 tn Heb “the runners.”
11 tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”
12 tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
13 tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”
14 tn Or “seers.”
15 tn Heb “look, they are.”