2 Tawarikh 6:41

6:41 Now ascend, O Lord God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! May your priests, O Lord God, experience your deliverance! ¹  May your loyal followers rejoice in the prosperity you give! ² 

2 Tawarikh 9:21

9:21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships ³  manned by Huram’s men ⁴  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ⁵  came into port with cargoes of ⁶  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 15:12

15:12 They solemnly agreed ⁸  to seek the Lord God of their ancestors ⁹  with their whole heart and being.

2 Tawarikh 18:29

18:29 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter ¹⁰  the battle; but you wear your royal attire.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and they entered the battle.

2 Tawarikh 23:17

23:17 All the people went and demolished ¹¹  the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. ¹²  They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

2 Tawarikh 26:16

26:16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. ¹³  He disobeyed ¹⁴  the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

2 Tawarikh 29:16-18

29:16 The priests then entered the Lord’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside. ¹⁵  The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley. 29:17 On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the Lord’s temple. ¹⁶  For eight more days they consecrated the Lord’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished. 29:18 They went to King Hezekiah and said: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment.

2 Tawarikh 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ¹⁷  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ¹⁸  returned home humiliated. ¹⁹  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ²⁰  struck him down with the sword.

[6:41]  ¹ tn Heb “be clothed with deliverance.”

[6:41]  ² tn Heb “and may your loyal ones rejoice in good.”

[9:21]  ³ tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[9:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “servants.”

[9:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

[9:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”

[9:21]  ⁷ tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”

[15:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “entered into a covenant.”

[15:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “fathers.”

[18:29]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives (see IBHS 594 §35.5.2a). Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.

[23:17]  ¹¹ tn Or “tore down.”

[23:17]  ¹² tn Or “images.”

[26:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “his heart was high [i.e., proud] to destroy.”

[26:16]  ¹⁴ tn Or “was unfaithful to.”

[29:16]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in the temple of the Lord.”

[29:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “porch of the Lord.”

[32:21]  ¹⁷ tn Or “an angel.”

[32:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:21]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

[32:21]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”