2 Tawarikh 6:26

6:26 “The time will come when ¹  the skies ²  are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ³  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ⁴  and turn away from their sin because you punish ⁵  them,

2 Tawarikh 25:19

25:19 You defeated Edom ⁶  and it has gone to your head. ⁷  Gloat over your success, ⁸  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ⁹ 

2 Tawarikh 25:22

25:22 Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home. ¹⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 30:20

30:20 The Lord responded favorably ¹¹  to Hezekiah and forgave ¹²  the people.

2 Tawarikh 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire ¹³  in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. ¹⁴  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 26-27a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

² tn Or “heavens” (also in v. 12). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

³ tn Heb “they.”

⁴ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“afflict”).

⁶ tn Heb “you say [to yourself], ‘look, you have defeated Edom.’”

⁷ tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”

⁸ tn Heb “to glorify.”

⁹ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and Judah was struck down before Israel and they fled, each to his tent.”

¹¹ tn Heb “listened.”

¹² tn Heb “healed.”

¹³ tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

¹⁴ tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”