Discovery Box2 Chronicles 9:11 
Context9:11 With the timber the king made steps 1 for the Lord’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments 2 for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah prior to that. 3 )
2 Chronicles 11:14
Context11:14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord’s priests.
2 Chronicles 11:23
Context11:23 He wisely placed some of his many sons throughout the regions of Judah and Benjamin in the various fortified cities. 4 He supplied them with abundant provisions and acquired many wives for them. 5
2 Chronicles 13:14
Context13:14 The men of Judah turned around and realized they were being attacked from the front and the rear. 6 So they cried out for help to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets,
2 Chronicles 14:8
Context14:8 Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah, equipped with large shields and spears. He also had 280,000 men from Benjamin who carried small shields and were adept archers; they were all skilled warriors.
2 Chronicles 14:13-14
Context14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; 7 they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah 8 carried off a huge amount of plunder. 14:14 They defeated all the cities surrounding Gerar, for the Lord caused them to panic. 9 The men of Judah 10 looted all the cities, for they contained a huge amount of goods. 11
2 Chronicles 15:15
Context15:15 All Judah was happy about the oath, because they made the vow with their whole heart. They willingly sought the Lord and he responded to them. 12 He made them secure on every side. 13
2 Chronicles 16:6
Context16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. 14 He used the materials to build up 15 Geba and Mizpah.
2 Chronicles 18:9
Context18:9 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, dressed in their royal robes, at the threshing floor at 16 the entrance of the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying before them.
2 Chronicles 20:24
Context20:24 When the men of Judah 17 arrived at the observation post overlooking the desert and looked at 18 the huge army, they saw dead bodies on the ground; there were no survivors!
2 Chronicles 20:31
Context20:31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. 19 His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
2 Chronicles 21:3
Context21:3 Their father gave them many presents, including silver, gold, and other precious items, along with fortified cities in Judah. But he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.
2 Chronicles 21:12
Context21:12 Jehoram 20 received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You 21 have not followed in the footsteps 22 of your father Jehoshaphat and of 23 King Asa of Judah,
2 Chronicles 21:17
Context21:17 They attacked Judah and swept through it. 24 They carried off everything they found in the royal palace, 25 including his sons and wives. None of his sons was left, except for his youngest, Ahaziah.
2 Chronicles 22:1
Context22:1 The residents of Jerusalem 26 made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the city with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. 27 So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 22:8
Context22:8 While Jehu was dishing out punishment to Ahab’s family, he discovered the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s relatives who were serving Ahaziah and killed them.
2 Chronicles 24:9
Context24:9 An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the Lord the tax that Moses, God’s servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness. 28
2 Chronicles 24:18
Context24:18 They abandoned the temple of the Lord God of their ancestors, 29 and worshiped 30 the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 24:23
Context24:23 At the beginning 31 of the year the Syrian army attacked 32 Joash 33 and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus.
2 Chronicles 25:12-13
Context25:12 The men 34 of Judah captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over. 35 All the captives 36 fell to their death. 37 25:13 Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle 38 raided 39 the cities of Judah from Samaria 40 to Beth Horon. They killed 41 3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 25:17
Context25:17 After King Amaziah of Judah consulted with his advisers, 42 he sent this message to the king of Israel, Joash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, “Come, face me on the battlefield.” 43
2 Chronicles 25:19
Context25:19 You defeated Edom 44 and it has gone to your head. 45 Gloat over your success, 46 but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” 47
2 Chronicles 27:7
Context27:7 The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, including all his military campaigns and his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. 48
2 Chronicles 28:18
Context28:18 The Philistines had raided the cities of Judah in the lowlands 49 and the Negev. They captured and settled in Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its surrounding villages, Timnah and its surrounding villages, and Gimzo and its surrounding villages.
2 Chronicles 28:26
Context28:26 The rest of the events of Ahaz’s reign, including his accomplishments from start to finish, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 50
2 Chronicles 29:8
Context29:8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, 51 as you can see with your own eyes.
2 Chronicles 30:1
Context30:1 Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 52 and observe a Passover celebration for the Lord God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:24
Context30:24 King Hezekiah of Judah supplied 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep 53 for the assembly, while the officials supplied them 54 with 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. Many priests consecrated themselves.
2 Chronicles 32:8
Context32:8 He has with him mere human strength, 55 but the Lord our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!” The army 56 was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.
2 Chronicles 32:12
Context32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 57 the Lord’s 58 high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”
2 Chronicles 32:32-33
Context32:32 The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign, including his faithful deeds, are recorded in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz, included in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 59 32:33 Hezekiah passed away 60 and was buried on the ascent of the tombs of the descendants of David. All the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem buried him with great honor. 61 His son Manasseh replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 33:9
Context33:9 But Manasseh misled the people of 62 Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 33:16
Context33:16 He erected the altar of the Lord and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of 63 Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:11
Context34:11 They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair. 64
2 Chronicles 34:24
Context34:24 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which they read before the king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 34:26
Context34:26 Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the Lord: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:
2 Chronicles 36:4
Context36:4 The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s 65 brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Necho seized his brother Jehoahaz and took him to Egypt.
2 Chronicles 36:8
Context36:8 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 66 His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 36:10
Context36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought 67 to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative 68 Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
1 tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”
2 tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).
3 tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”
4 tn Heb “and he was discerning and broke up from all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities.”
5 tn “and he asked for a multitude of wives.”
6 tn Heb “and Judah turned, and, look, to them [was] the battle in front and behind.”
7 tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”
8 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “for the terror of the
10 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Heb “for great plunder was in them.”
12 tn Heb “and with all their desire they sought him and he allowed himself to be found by them.”
13 tn Heb “and the
14 tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”
15 tn Heb “and he built with them.”
16 tn Heb “at,” which in this case probably means “near.”
17 tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the men of Judah.
18 tn Heb “turned toward.”
19 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
20 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
21 tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.
22 tn Heb “walked in the ways.”
23 tn Heb “in the ways of.”
24 tn Heb “broke it up.”
25 tn Heb “all the property which was found in the house of the king.”
26 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
27 tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”
28 tn Heb “and they gave voice in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the
29 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).
30 tn Heb “served.”
31 tn Heb “turning.”
32 tn Heb “went up against.”
33 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
34 tn Heb “sons.”
35 tn Heb “and threw them from the top of the cliff.”
36 tn Heb “all of them.”
37 tn Heb “smashed in pieces.”
38 tn Heb “had sent back from going with him to the battle.”
39 tn Heb “stripped.”
40 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
41 tn Heb “struck down.”
42 tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
43 tn Heb “let us look at each other [in the] face.” The expression refers here not to a visit but to meeting in battle. See v. 21.
44 tn Heb “you say [to yourself], ‘look, you have defeated Edom.’”
45 tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”
46 tn Heb “to glorify.”
47 tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”
48 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jotham, and his battles and his ways, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”
49 tn Heb “Shephelah.”
50 tn Heb “As for the rest of his events, and all his ways, the former and the latter, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.”
51 tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”
52 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
53 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (ts’on, translated “sheep” twice in this verse) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.
54 tn Heb “the assembly.” The pronoun “them” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
55 tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”
56 tn Or “people.”
57 tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.
58 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the
59 tn Heb “and the rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and his faithful acts, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.”
60 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
61 tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”
62 tn Heb “misled Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.
63 tn Heb “told Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.
64 tn Heb “of the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.”
65 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoahaz) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
66 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and his horrible deeds which he did and that which was found against him, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”
67 tn Heb “sent and brought him.”
68 tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).
