2 Tawarikh 2:11

2:11 King Huram ¹  of Tyre sent this letter to Solomon: “Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king.”

2 Tawarikh 5:7

5:7 The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its assigned ²  place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place under the wings of the cherubs.

2 Tawarikh 6:12

6:12 He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

2 Tawarikh 6:19

6:19 But respond favorably to ³  your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer ⁴  the desperate prayer ⁵  your servant is presenting to you. ⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 7:21

7:21 As for this temple, which was once majestic, ⁷  everyone who passes by it will be shocked and say, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’

2 Tawarikh 10:15

10:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events ⁸  so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made ⁹  through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

2 Tawarikh 15:11

15:11 At that time ¹⁰  they sacrificed to the Lord some of the plunder they had brought back, including 700 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep. ¹¹ 

2 Tawarikh 16:8

16:8 Did not the Cushites and Libyans have a huge army with chariots and a very large number of horsemen? But when you relied on the Lord, he handed them over to you!

2 Tawarikh 16:12

16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. ¹²  Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors. ¹³ 

2 Tawarikh 18:6

18:6 But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord still here, that we may ask him?”

2 Tawarikh 18:10-11

18:10 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed!’” 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 Tawarikh 18:23

18:23 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?”

2 Tawarikh 18:27

18:27 Micaiah said, “If you really do return safely, then the Lord has not spoken through me!” Then he added, “Take note, ¹⁴  all you people.”

2 Tawarikh 19:4

Jehoshaphat Appoints Judges

19:4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. ¹⁵  He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow ¹⁶  the Lord God of their ancestors. ¹⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 19:6

19:6 He told the judges, “Be careful what you do, ¹⁸  for you are not judging for men, but for the Lord, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.

2 Tawarikh 20:14

20:14 Then in the midst of the assembly, the Lord’s Spirit came upon Jachaziel son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendant of Asaph.

2 Tawarikh 20:26-27

20:26 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berachah, where ¹⁹  they praised the Lord. So that place is called the Valley of Berachah ²⁰  to this very day. 20:27 Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem with Jehoshaphat leading them; the Lord had given them reason to rejoice over their enemies.

2 Tawarikh 21:6-7

21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. ²¹  He did evil in the sight of ²²  the Lord. 21:7 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty ²³  because of the promise ²⁴  he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty. ²⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 23:3

23:3 and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada ²⁶  said to them, “The king’s son will rule, just as the Lord promised David’s descendants.

2 Tawarikh 24:21

24:21 They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.

2 Tawarikh 25:9

25:9 Amaziah asked the prophet: ²⁷  “But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?” The prophet ²⁸  replied, “The Lord is capable of giving you more than that.”

2 Tawarikh 25:15

25:15 The Lord was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why are you following ²⁹  these gods ³⁰  that could not deliver their own people from your power?” ³¹ 

2 Tawarikh 26:17

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

2 Tawarikh 28:6

28:6 In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. ³² 

2 Tawarikh 28:10

28:10 And now you are planning ³³  to enslave ³⁴  the people ³⁵  of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?

2 Tawarikh 28:24

28:24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

2 Tawarikh 29:7

29:7 They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel.

2 Tawarikh 29:11

29:11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to serve in his presence and offer sacrifices.” ³⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 29:27

29:27 Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel.

2 Tawarikh 30:5

30:5 So they sent an edict ³⁷  throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people ³⁸  to come and observe a Passover for the Lord God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law. ³⁹ 

2 Tawarikh 31:21

31:21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God. ⁴⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 32:23

32:23 Many were bringing presents ⁴¹  to the Lord in Jerusalem and precious gifts to King Hezekiah of Judah. From that time on he was respected by ⁴²  all the nations.

2 Tawarikh 32:26

32:26 But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. ⁴³ 

2 Tawarikh 33:18

33:18 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets ⁴⁴  spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded ⁴⁵  in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

2 Tawarikh 33:22

33:22 He did evil in the sight of ⁴⁶  the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped ⁴⁷  them.

2 Tawarikh 34:15

34:15 Hilkiah informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.

2 Tawarikh 36:9

Jehoiachin’s Reign

36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen ⁴⁸  years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. ⁴⁹  He did evil in the sight of ⁵⁰  the Lord.

2 Tawarikh 36:21

36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. ⁵¹  The land experienced ⁵²  its sabbatical years; ⁵³  it remained desolate for seventy years, ⁵⁴  as prophesied. ⁵⁵ 

[2:11]  ¹ tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 12). Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

[5:7]  ² tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[6:19]  ³ tn Heb “turn to.”

[6:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “by listening to.”

[6:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”

[6:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “praying before you.”

[7:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “and this house which was high/elevated.” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”

[10:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “because this turn of events was from God.”

[10:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “so that the Lord might bring to pass his word which he spoke.”

[15:11]  ¹⁰ tn Or “In that day.”

[15:11]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (tso’n) 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.

[16:12]  ¹² tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”

[16:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the Lord, only the healers.

[18:27]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Listen.”

[19:4]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[19:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and turned them back to.”

[19:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “fathers.”

[19:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “see what you are doing.”

[20:26]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for there.”

[20:26]  ²⁰ sn The name Berachah, which means “blessing” in Hebrew, is derived from the verbal root “to praise [or “to bless”],” which appears earlier in the verse.

[21:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

[21:6]  ²² tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:7]  ²³ tn Heb “house.”

[21:7]  ²⁴ tn Or “covenant.”

[21:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “which he made to David, just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” Here “lamp” is metaphorical, symbolizing the Davidic dynasty.

[23:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada the priest, cf. v. 8) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “said to the man of God.”

[25:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:15]  ²⁹ tn Heb “seeking,” perhaps in the sense of “consulting [an oracle from].”

[25:15]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the gods of the people.”

[25:15]  ³¹ tn Heb “hand.”

[28:6]  ³² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 25).

[28:10]  ³³ tn Heb “saying.”

[28:10]  ³⁴ tn Heb “to enslave as male servants and female servants.”

[28:10]  ³⁵ tn Heb “sons.”

[29:11]  ³⁶ tn Heb “to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and sacrificers.”

[30:5]  ³⁷ tn Heb “and they caused to stand a word to cause a voice to pass through.”

[30:5]  ³⁸ tn The words “summoning the people” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[30:5]  ³⁹ tn Heb “because not for abundance had they done as written.”

[31:21]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “and in all the work which he began with regard to the service of the house of God and with respect to the law and with respect to the commandment, to seek his God; with all his heart he acted and he succeeded.”

[32:23]  ⁴¹ tn Or perhaps, “offerings.”

[32:23]  ⁴² tn Heb “lifted up in the eyes of.”

[32:26]  ⁴³ tn Heb “and Hezekiah humbled himself in the height of his heart, he and the residents of Jerusalem, and the anger of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.”

[33:18]  ⁴⁴ tn Or “seers.”

[33:18]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “look, they are.”

[33:22]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[33:22]  ⁴⁷ tn Or “served.”

[36:9]  ⁴⁸ tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”

[36:9]  ⁴⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[36:9]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[36:21]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

[36:21]  ⁵² tn Or “accepted.”

[36:21]  ⁵³ 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]  ⁵⁴ sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.

[36:21]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”

[36:21]  sn Cyrus’ edict (see vv. 22-23) occurred about fifty years after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 b.c., which is most naturally understood as the beginning point of the “days of desolation” mentioned in v. 21. The number “seventy” is probably used in a metaphorical sense, indicating a typical lifetime and suggesting a thorough or complete judgment that would not be lifted until an entirely new generation emerged.