Discovery Box2 Chronicles 8:18 
Context8:18 Huram sent him ships and some of his sailors, men who were well acquainted with the sea. They sailed with Solomon’s men to Ophir, 1 and took from there 450 talents 2 of gold, which they brought back to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 10:10
Context10:10 The young advisers with whom Rehoboam 3 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’ 4 – say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father! 5
2 Chronicles 13:11
Context13:11 They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly 6 we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.
2 Chronicles 15:9
Context15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers 7 from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live 8 when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
2 Chronicles 16:7
Context16:7 At that time Hanani the prophet 9 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 18:7
Context18:7 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. 10 But I despise 11 him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but always 12 disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. 13 Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things!”
2 Chronicles 19:2
Context19:2 the prophet 14 Jehu son of Hanani confronted him; 15 he said to King Jehoshaphat, “Is it right to help the wicked and be an ally of those who oppose the Lord? 16 Because you have done this the Lord is angry with you! 17
2 Chronicles 24:6
Context24:6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, 18 and said to him, “Why have you not made 19 the Levites collect 20 from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?” 21
2 Chronicles 25:16
Context25:16 While he was speaking, Amaziah 22 said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” 23 So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided 24 to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”
2 Chronicles 25:23
Context25:23 King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet. 25
2 Chronicles 26:18
Context26:18 They confronted 26 King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not proper for you, Uzziah, to offer incense to the Lord. That is the responsibility of the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to offer incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have disobeyed 27 and the Lord God will not honor you!”
2 Chronicles 27:5
Context27:5 He launched a military campaign 28 against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites paid him 100 talents 29 of silver, 10,000 kors 30 of wheat, and 10,000 kors 31 of barley. The Ammonites also paid this same amount of annual tribute the next two years. 32
2 Chronicles 30:9
Context30:9 For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The Lord your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you 33 if you return to him.”
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 32:15
Context32:15 Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. So how 34 can your gods rescue 35 you from my power?’”
2 Chronicles 32:17
Context32:17 He wrote letters mocking the Lord God of Israel and insulting him with these words: 36 “The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah’s god rescue his people from my power.” 37
2 Chronicles 32:21
Context32:21 The Lord sent a messenger 38 and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib 39 returned home humiliated. 40 When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons 41 struck him down with the sword.
2 Chronicles 33:6
Context33:6 He passed his sons through the fire 42 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. 43 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. 44
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 45 spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded 46 in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:9
Context34:9 They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of 47 Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of 48 Judah and Benjamin and the residents of 49 Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 35:21
Context35:21 Necho 50 sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? 51 I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. 52 God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” 53
2 Chronicles 36:23
Context36:23 It read: “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord God of the heavens has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build for him a temple in Jerusalem 54 in Judah. May the Lord your God energize you who belong to his people, so you may be able to go back there!” 55
1 tn Heb “and Huram sent to him by the hand of his servants, ships, and servants [who] know the sea, and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir.”
2 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 30,285 lbs. (13,770 kg).
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter upon us.”
5 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.
6 tn Or “for.”
7 tn Or “resident aliens.”
8 tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”
9 tn Heb “the seer.”
10 tn Heb “to seek the
11 tn Or “hate.”
12 tn Heb “all his days.”
13 tn The words “his name is” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
14 tn Or “seer.”
15 tn Heb “went out to his face.”
16 tn Heb “and love those who hate the
17 tn Heb “and because of this upon you is anger from before the
18 tn Heb “Jehoiada the head”; the word “priest” not in the Hebrew text but is implied.
19 tn Heb “sought.”
20 tn Heb “bring.”
21 tn Heb “the tent of testimony.”
22 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
23 tn Heb “Stop yourself! Why should they strike you down?”
24 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.”
25 tn Heb “400 cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the distance would have been about 600 feet (180 m).
26 tn Heb “stood against.”
27 tn Or “been unfaithful.”
28 tn Heb “he fought with.”
29 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).
30 sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).
31 tn Heb “10,000 kors of wheat and 10,000 of barley.” The unit of measure of the barley is omitted in the Hebrew text, but is understood to be “kors,” the same as the measures of wheat.
32 tn Heb “This the sons of Ammon brought to him, and in the second year and the third.”
33 tn Heb “turn [his] face from you.”
34 tn Heb “how much less.”
35 tn The verb is plural, suggesting that the preceding אֱלֹהֵיכֶם (’elohekhem) be translated “your gods,” rather than “your God.”
36 tn Heb “and speaking against him, saying.”
37 tn Heb “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”
38 tn Or “an angel.”
39 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”
41 tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”
42 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.
43 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.
44 tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the
45 tn Or “seers.”
46 tn Heb “look, they are.”
47 tn Heb “from Manasseh and Ephraim.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Manasseh and Ephraim” here by metonymy for the people of Manasseh and Ephraim.
48 tn Heb “all Judah and Benjamin.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Judah and Benjamin” here by metonymy for the people of Judah and Benjamin.
49 tc The Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the reading, “and the residents of.” The marginal reading (Qere) is “and they returned.”
50 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
51 tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”
52 tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”
53 tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”
54 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
55 tn Heb “Whoever [is] among you from all his people – may the
