Discovery Box2 Chronicles 7:6-7 
Context7:6 The priests stood in their assigned spots, along with the Levites who had the musical instruments used for praising the Lord. 1 (These were the ones King David made for giving thanks to the Lord and which were used by David when he offered praise, saying, “Certainly his loyal love endures.”) 2 Opposite the Levites, 3 the priests were blowing the trumpets, while all Israel stood there. 7:7 Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, 4 and the fat from the peace offerings there, because the bronze altar that Solomon had made was too small to hold all these offerings. 5
2 Chronicles 8:11
Context8:11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David 6 to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”
2 Chronicles 10:10
Context10:10 The young advisers with whom Rehoboam 7 had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden’ 8 – say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father! 9
2 Chronicles 15:8
Context15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. 10 He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. 11
2 Chronicles 22:6
Context22:6 Joram 12 returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians 13 in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah 14 son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. 15
2 Chronicles 23:14
Context23:14 Jehoiada the priest sent out the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, and ordered them, “Bring her outside the temple to the guards. 16 Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple. 17
2 Chronicles 23:18
Context23:18 Jehoiada then assigned the duties of the Lord’s temple to the priests, the Levites whom David had assigned to the Lord’s temple. They were responsible for offering burnt sacrifices to the Lord with joy and music, according to 18 the law of Moses and the edict of David.
2 Chronicles 24:24-25
Context24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, 19 for the people of Judah 20 had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians 21 gave Joash what he deserved. 22 24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash 23 badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to 24 the son 25 of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus 26 he died and was buried in the City of David, 27 but not in the tombs of the kings.
2 Chronicles 26:19
Context26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving 28 at the priests, a skin disease 29 appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.
2 Chronicles 28:23
Context28:23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. 30 He reasoned, 31 “Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble.
2 Chronicles 29:34
Context29:34 But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, 32 so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.) 33
2 Chronicles 30:5
Context30:5 So they sent an edict 34 throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people 35 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. 36
2 Chronicles 31:10
Context31:10 Azariah, the head priest from the family of Zadok, said to him, “Since the contributions began arriving in the Lord’s temple, we have had plenty to eat and have a large quantity left over. For the Lord has blessed his people, and this large amount remains.”
2 Chronicles 34:4
Context34:4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, 37 and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
2 Chronicles 34:30
Context34:30 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.
1 tn Heb “and the priests were standing at their posts, and the Levites with the instruments of music of the
2 tn Heb “which David the king made to give thanks to the
3 tn Heb “opposite them”; the referent (the Levites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tc The Hebrew text omits reference to the grain offerings at this point, but note that they are included both in the list in the second half of the verse (see note on “offerings” at the end of this verse) and in the parallel account in 1 Kgs 8:64. The construction וְאֶת־הַמִּנְחָה (vÿ’et-hamminkhah; vav [ו] + accusative sign + noun with article; “grain offerings”) was probably omitted accidentally by homoioarcton. Note the וְאֶת (vÿ’et) that immediately follows.
5 tn Heb “to hold the burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.” Because this is redundant, the translation employs a summary phrase: “all these offerings.”
6 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8 tn Heb “Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter upon us.”
9 tn Heb “My little one is thicker than my father’s hips.” The referent of “my little one” is not clear. The traditional view is that it refers to the little finger (so NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). As the following statement makes clear, Rehoboam’s point is that he is more harsh and demanding than his father.
10 tn Heb “strengthened himself.”
11 tn Heb “the porch of the
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”
14 tc Most Hebrew
15 tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.
16 tn Heb “ranks.”
17 tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Do not put her to death in the house of the
18 tn Heb “as it is written in.”
19 tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the
20 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”
23 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”
25 tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.
26 tn Heb “and he died.”
27 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
28 tn Heb “angry.”
29 tn Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s disease). See 2 Kgs 5:1.
30 tn Heb “the gods of Damascus, the ones who had defeated him.” The words “he thought” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The perspective is that of Ahaz, not the narrator! Another option is that “the kings” has been accidentally omitted after “gods of.” See v. 23b.
31 tn Heb “said.”
32 tn Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”
33 tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”
34 tn Heb “and they caused to stand a word to cause a voice to pass through.”
35 tn The words “summoning the people” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
36 tn Heb “because not for abundance had they done as written.”
37 tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”
