2 Tawarikh 1:12

1:12 you are granted wisdom and discernment. ¹  Furthermore I am giving you riches, wealth, and honor surpassing that of any king before or after you.” ² 

2 Tawarikh 5:2

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

5:2 Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders – all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families – in Jerusalem, ³  so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David ⁴  (that is, Zion). ⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 5:13

5:13 The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the Lord, singing: ⁶  “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple. ⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 6:24

6:24 “If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ⁸  because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ⁹  and pray for your help ¹⁰  before you in this temple,

2 Tawarikh 6:28

6:28 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust ¹¹  invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, ¹²  or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

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! ¹³  May your loyal followers rejoice in the prosperity you give! ¹⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ¹⁵  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ¹⁶  and repudiate their sinful practices, ¹⁷  then I will respond ¹⁸  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ¹⁹ 

2 Tawarikh 15:9

15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers ²⁰  from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live ²¹  when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

2 Tawarikh 16:7

16:7 At that time Hanani the prophet ²²  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 Tawarikh 18:9

18:9 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 ²³  the entrance of the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying before them.

2 Tawarikh 18:14

18:14 Micaiah ²⁴  came before the king and the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” He answered him, “Attack! You will succeed; they will be handed over to you.” ²⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 20:7

20:7 Our God, you drove out ²⁶  the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession ²⁷  to the descendants of your friend ²⁸  Abraham.

2 Tawarikh 21:19

21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. ²⁹  His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. ³⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 22:7

22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. ³¹  When Ahaziah ³²  arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned ³³  to wipe out Ahab’s family. ³⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 23:8

23:8 The Levites and all the men of Judah ³⁵  did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath. Jehoiada the priest did not release his divisions from their duties.

2 Tawarikh 24:20

24:20 God’s Spirit energized ³⁶  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 Tawarikh 25:13

25:13 Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle ³⁷  raided ³⁸  the cities of Judah from Samaria ³⁹  to Beth Horon. They killed ⁴⁰  3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder.

2 Tawarikh 26:21

26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ⁴¹  afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

2 Tawarikh 30:18

30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. ⁴²  For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive ⁴³ 

2 Tawarikh 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ⁴⁴  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ⁴⁵  returned home humiliated. ⁴⁶  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ⁴⁷  struck him down with the sword.

2 Tawarikh 32:33

32:33 Hezekiah passed away ⁴⁸  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. ⁴⁹  His son Manasseh replaced him as king.

[1:12]  ¹ tn Heb “wisdom and discernment are given to you.”

[1:12]  ² tn Heb “which was not so for the kings who were before you, and after you there will not be so.”

[5:2]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:2]  ⁴ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[5:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David (it is Zion).”

[5:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “like one were the trumpeters and the musicians, causing one voice to be heard, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, and while raising a voice with trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of music, and while praising the Lord.”

[5:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the Lord.”

[6:24]  ⁸ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[6:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[6:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

[6:28]  ¹¹ tn Actually two Hebrew words appear here, both of which are usually (but not always) taken as referring to locusts. Perhaps different stages of growth or different varieties are in view, but this is uncertain. NEB has “locusts new-sloughed or fully grown”; NASB has “locust or grasshopper”; NIV has “locusts or grasshoppers”; NRSV has “locust, or caterpillar.”

[6:28]  ¹² tn Heb “in the land, his gates.”

[6:41]  ¹³ tn Heb “be clothed with deliverance.”

[6:41]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and may your loyal ones rejoice in good.”

[7:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[7:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

[7:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  ¹⁹ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

[15:9]  ²⁰ tn Or “resident aliens.”

[15:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”

[16:7]  ²² tn Heb “the seer.”

[18:9]  ²³ tn Heb “at,” which in this case probably means “near.”

[18:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[18:14]  ²⁵ sn One does not expect Micaiah, having just vowed to speak only what the Lord tells him, to agree with the other prophets and give the king an inaccurate prophecy. Micaiah’s actions became understandable later, when we discover that the Lord desires to deceive the king and lead him to his demise. The Lord even dispatches a lying spirit to deceive Ahab’s prophets. Micaiah can lie to the king because he realizes this lie is from the Lord. It is important to note that in v. 13 Micaiah only vows to speak the word of his God; he does not necessarily say he will tell the truth. In this case the Lord’s word is deliberately deceptive. Only when the king adjures him to tell the truth (v. 15), does Micaiah do so.

[20:7]  ²⁶ tn Heb “did you not drive out?” This is another rhetorical question which expects a positive response; see the note on the word “heaven” in the previous verse.

[20:7]  ²⁷ tn Heb “permanently.”

[20:7]  ²⁸ tn Or perhaps “your covenantal partner.” See Isa 41:8.

[21:19]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”

[21:19]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”

[22:7]  ³¹ tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”

[22:7]  ³² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:7]  ³³ tn Heb “anointed.”

[22:7]  ³⁴ tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”

[23:8]  ³⁵ tn Heb “all 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.

[24:20]  ³⁶ tn Heb “clothed.”

[25:13]  ³⁷ tn Heb “had sent back from going with him to the battle.”

[25:13]  ³⁸ tn Heb “stripped.”

[25:13]  ³⁹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[25:13]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “struck down.”

[26:21]  ⁴¹ tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.

[30:18]  ⁴² tn Heb “without what is written.”

[30:18]  ⁴³ tn Heb “make atonement for.”

[32:21]  ⁴⁴ tn Or “an angel.”

[32:21]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:21]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

[32:21]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

[32:33]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[32:33]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”