2 Chronicles 1:15

1:15 The king made silver and gold as plentiful ¹  in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was ²  as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands. ³ 

2 Chronicles 4:2

4:2 He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” ⁴  It measured 15 feet ⁵  from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet ⁶  high. Its circumference was 45 feet. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 4:7

4:7 He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.

2 Chronicles 9:25

9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses ⁸  and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 11:17

11:17 They supported ¹⁰  the kingdom of Judah and were loyal to ¹¹  Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years; they followed the edicts of ¹²  David and Solomon for three years.

2 Chronicles 13:2

13:2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. ¹³  His mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. ¹⁴ 

There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 18:11

18:11 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king!”

2 Chronicles 22:8

22:8 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 24:22

24:22 King Joash disregarded ¹⁵  the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s ¹⁶  son. As Zechariah ¹⁷  was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” ¹⁸ 

2 Chronicles 25:12

25:12 The men ¹⁹  of Judah captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over. ²⁰  All the captives ²¹  fell to their death. ²² 

2 Chronicles 26:17

26:17 Azariah the priest and eighty other brave priests of the Lord followed him in.

2 Chronicles 28:8

28:8 The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it ²³  back to Samaria. ²⁴ 

2 Chronicles 28:25

28:25 In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the Lord God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 31:17

31:17 They made disbursements to the priests listed in the genealogical records by their families, and to the Levites twenty years old and up, according to their duties as assigned to their divisions,

2 Chronicles 32:1

Sennacherib Invades Judah

32:1 After these faithful deeds were accomplished, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities, intending to seize them. ²⁵ 

2 Chronicles 32:4

32:4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. ²⁶  They reasoned, ²⁷  “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

2 Chronicles 32:7-8

32:7 “Be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic ²⁸  because of the king of Assyria and this huge army that is with him! We have with us one who is stronger than those who are with him. ²⁹  32:8 He has with him mere human strength, ³⁰  but the Lord our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!” The army ³¹  was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.

2 Chronicles 33:18

33:18 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets ³²  spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded ³³  in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 34:14

34:14 When they took out the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the Lord had given to Moses.

2 Chronicles 36:4

36:4 The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s ³⁴  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 36:21

36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. ³⁵  The land experienced ³⁶  its sabbatical years; ³⁷  it remained desolate for seventy years, ³⁸  as prophesied. ³⁹ 

[1:15]  ¹ tn The words “as plentiful” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[1:15]  ² tn Heb “he made.”

[1:15]  ³ tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”

[4:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”

[4:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the diameter would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).

[4:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 7.5 feet (2.25 m).

[4:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”

[9:25]  ⁸ tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”

[9:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”

[11:17]  ¹⁰ tn Or “strengthened.”

[11:17]  ¹¹ tn Or “strengthened.”

[11:17]  ¹² tn Heb “they walked in the way of.”

[13:2]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[13:2]  ¹⁴ tn The parallel text in 1 Kgs 15:1 identifies his mother as “Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom” [=Absalom, 2 Chr 11:20). Although most English versions identify the mother’s father as Uriel of Gibeah, a number of English versions substitute the name “Maacah” here for the mother (e.g., NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT).

[24:22]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “did not remember.”

[24:22]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:22]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.

[25:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “sons.”

[25:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and threw them from the top of the cliff.”

[25:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “all of them.”

[25:12]  ²² tn Heb “smashed in pieces.”

[28:8]  ²³ tn Heb “the loot.” The pronoun (“it”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

[28:8]  ²⁴ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[32:1]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and he said to break into them for himself.”

[32:4]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’arets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.

[32:4]  ²⁷ tn Heb “land, saying.”

[32:7]  ²⁸ tn Or perhaps, “and don’t be discouraged.”

[32:7]  ²⁹ tn Heb “for with us [is] a greater [one] than with him.”

[32:8]  ³⁰ tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”

[32:8]  ³¹ tn Or “people.”

[33:18]  ³² tn Or “seers.”

[33:18]  ³³ tn Heb “look, they are.”

[36:4]  ³⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoahaz) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[36:21]  ³⁵ tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

[36:21]  ³⁶ tn Or “accepted.”

[36:21]  ³⁷ sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile.

[36:21]  ³⁸ sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.

[36:21]  ³⁹ tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”