Discovery Box2 Chronicles 9:8 
Context9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored 1 you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! 2 Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, 3 he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” 4
2 Chronicles 13:12
Context13:12 Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you. 5 You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, 6 for you will not win!”
2 Chronicles 24:20
Context24:20 God’s Spirit energized 7 Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’”
2 Chronicles 28:9
Context28:9 Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: “Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice. 8
2 Chronicles 32:17
Context32:17 He wrote letters mocking the Lord God of Israel and insulting him with these words: 9 “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.” 10
2 Chronicles 33:7
Context33:7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 11
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 12 spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded 13 in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:33
Context34:33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged 14 all who were in Israel to worship the Lord their God. Throughout the rest of his reign 15 they did not turn aside from following the Lord God of their ancestors.
2 Chronicles 35:21
Context35:21 Necho 16 sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? 17 I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. 18 God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” 19
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 20 in Judah. May the Lord your God energize you who belong to his people, so you may be able to go back there!” 21
1 tn Or “delighted in.”
2 tn Heb “as king for the
3 tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”
4 tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”
5 tn Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”
6 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18).
7 tn Heb “clothed.”
8 tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”
9 tn Heb “and speaking against him, saying.”
10 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.”
11 tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name permanently” (or perhaps “forever”).
12 tn Or “seers.”
13 tn Heb “look, they are.”
14 tn Or “caused, forced.”
15 tn Heb “all his days.”
16 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”
18 tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”
19 tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”
20 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
21 tn Heb “Whoever [is] among you from all his people – may the
