2 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 7:10

7:10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon ³  sent the people home. They left ⁴  happy and contented ⁵  because of the good the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:23

11:23 He wisely placed some of his many sons throughout the regions of Judah and Benjamin in the various fortified cities. ⁶  He supplied them with abundant provisions and acquired many wives for them. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 13:9

13:9 But you banished ⁸  the Lord’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods! ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 15:2

15:2 He met ¹⁰  Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. ¹¹  If you seek him, he will respond to you, ¹²  but if you reject him, he will reject you.

2 Chronicles 18:12

18:12 Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed. ¹³  Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success!” ¹⁴ 

2 Chronicles 18:14

18:14 Micaiah ¹⁵  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.” ¹⁶ 

2 Chronicles 18:16

18:16 Micaiah ¹⁷  replied, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”

2 Chronicles 18:31

18:31 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The Lord helped him; God lured them away from him.

2 Chronicles 20:10

20:10 Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! ¹⁸  When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. ¹⁹  They bypassed them and did not destroy them.

2 Chronicles 20:12

20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don’t know what we should do; we look to you for help.” ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 21:13

21:13 but have instead followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. You encouraged the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord, just as the family of Ahab does in Israel. ²¹  You also killed your brothers, members of your father’s family, ²²  who were better than you.

2 Chronicles 24:5

24:5 He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.

2 Chronicles 24:25

24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash ²³  badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to ²⁴  the son ²⁵  of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus ²⁶  he died and was buried in the City of David, ²⁷  but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 25:16

25:16 While he was speaking, Amaziah ²⁸  said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” ²⁹  So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided ³⁰  to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”

2 Chronicles 35:3

35:3 He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the Lord, “Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don’t carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel!

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho ³¹  sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? ³²  I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. ³³  God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” ³⁴ 

2 Chronicles 36:17

36:17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered ³⁵  their young men in their temple. ³⁶  He did not spare ³⁷  young men or women, or even the old and aging. God ³⁸  handed everyone over to him.

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

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

[7:10]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:10]  ⁴ tn The words “they left” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “good of heart.”

[11:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he was discerning and broke up from all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities.”

[11:23]  ⁷ tn “and he asked for a multitude of wives.”

[13:9]  ⁸ tn In the Hebrew text this is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Did you not banish?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you did,” the force of which is reflected in the translation “But you banished.”

[13:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “whoever comes to fill his hand with a bull of a son of cattle, and seven rams, and he is a priest to no-gods.”

[15:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “went out before.”

[15:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “when you are with him.”

[15:2]  ¹² tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”

[18:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”

[18:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “let your words be like one of them and speak good.”

[18:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[18:14]  ¹⁶ 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.

[18:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “now, look, the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir.”

[20:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “whom you did not allow Israel to enter when they came from the land of Egypt.”

[20:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “for [or “indeed”] upon you are our eyes.”

[21:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “and you walked in the way of the kings of Israel and caused Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to commit adultery, like the house of Ahab causes to commit adultery.”

[21:13]  ²² tn Heb “the house of your father.”

[24:25]  ²³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:25]  ²⁴ tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”

[24:25]  ²⁵ tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.

[24:25]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and he died.”

[24:25]  ²⁷ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[25:16]  ²⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:16]  ²⁹ tn Heb “Stop yourself! Why should they strike you down?”

[25:16]  ³⁰ tn The verb יָעַץ (ya’ats, “has decided”) is from the same root as יוֹעֵץ (yo’ets, “counselor”) in v. 16 and עֵצָה (’etsah, “advice”) later in v. 16. The wordplay highlights the appropriate nature of the divine punishment. Amaziah rejected the counsel of God’s prophet; now he would be the victim of God’s “counsel.”

[35:21]  ³¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[35:21]  ³² tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

[35:21]  ³³ tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

[35:21]  ³⁴ tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”

[36:17]  ³⁵ tn Heb “killed with the sword.”

[36:17]  ³⁶ tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”

[36:17]  ³⁷ tn Or “show compassion to.”

[36:17]  ³⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.