2 Tawarikh 1:10

1:10 Now give me wisdom and discernment so ¹  I can effectively lead this nation. ²  Otherwise ³  no one is able ⁴  to make judicial decisions for ⁵  this great nation of yours.” ⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 2:16

2:16 we will get all the timber you need from Lebanon ⁷  and bring it ⁸  in raft-like bundles ⁹  by sea to Joppa. You can then haul it on up to Jerusalem.”

2 Tawarikh 6:19

6:19 But respond favorably to ¹⁰  your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer ¹¹  the desperate prayer ¹²  your servant is presenting to you. ¹³ 

2 Tawarikh 6:42

6:42 O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! ¹⁴  Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!”

2 Tawarikh 7:11

The Lord Gives Solomon a Promise and a Warning

7:11 After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, and accomplished all his plans for the Lord’s temple and his royal palace, ¹⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 10:8

10:8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. ¹⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 10:15

10:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events ¹⁷  so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made ¹⁸  through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

2 Tawarikh 11:16

11:16 Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the Lord God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem ¹⁹  to sacrifice to the Lord God of their ancestors. ²⁰ 

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 16:10

16:10 Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. ²¹  Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.

2 Tawarikh 18:18

18:18 Micaiah ²²  said, “That being the case, hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.

2 Tawarikh 18:22

18:22 So now, look, the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the Lord has decreed disaster for 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, ²³  all you people.”

2 Tawarikh 19:7

19:7 Respect the Lord and make careful decisions, for the Lord our God disapproves of injustice, partiality, and bribery.” ²⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 25:7

25:7 But a prophet ²⁵  visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. ²⁶ 

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 26:5

26:5 He followed ²⁹  God during the lifetime of ³⁰  Zechariah, who taught him how to honor God. As long as he followed ³¹  the Lord, God caused him to succeed. ³² 

2 Tawarikh 31:6

31:6 The Israelites and people of Judah ³³  who lived in the cities of Judah also contributed a tenth of their cattle and sheep, as well as a tenth of the holy items consecrated to the Lord their God. They brought them and placed them in many heaps. ³⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 32:11

32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power ³⁵  of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! ³⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 32:14

32:14 Who among all the gods of these nations whom my predecessors annihilated was able to rescue his people from my power? ³⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 34:13

34:13 supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. ³⁸  Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

2 Tawarikh 34:26

34:26 Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to seek an oracle from the Lord: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says concerning the words you have heard:

2 Tawarikh 35:22

35:22 But Josiah did not turn back from him; ³⁹  he disguised himself for battle. He did not take seriously ⁴⁰  the words of Necho which he had received from God; he went to fight him in the Plain of Megiddo. ⁴¹ 

2 Tawarikh 36:21

36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. ⁴²  The land experienced ⁴³  its sabbatical years; ⁴⁴  it remained desolate for seventy years, ⁴⁵  as prophesied. ⁴⁶ 

[1:10]  ¹ tn The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) following the imperative here indicates purpose/result.

[1:10]  ² tn Heb “so I may go out before this nation and come in.” The expression “go out…and come in” here means “to lead” (see HALOT 425 s.v. יצא qal.4).

[1:10]  ³ tn Heb “for.” The word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

[1:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

[1:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “to judge.”

[1:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “these numerous people of yours.”

[2:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “and we will cut down trees from Lebanon according to all your need.”

[2:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “to you,” but this phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons – it is somewhat redundant.

[2:16]  ⁹ tn Or “on rafts.” See the note at 1 Kgs 5:9.

[6:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “turn to.”

[6:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “by listening to.”

[6:19]  ¹² tn Heb “the loud cry and the prayer.”

[6:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “praying before you.”

[6:42]  ¹⁴ tc Heb “do not turn away the face of your anointed ones.” Many medieval Hebrew mss, as well as the ancient versions, read the singular, “your anointed,” which would probably refer to Solomon specifically, rather than the people.

[7:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and all that entered the heart of Solomon to do in the house of the Lord and in his house he successfully accomplished.”

[10:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders which they advised and he consulted the young men with whom he had grown up, who stood before him.”

[10:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “because this turn of events was from God.”

[10:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “so that the Lord might bring to pass his word which he spoke.”

[11:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and after them from all the tribes of Israel, the ones giving their heart[s] to seek the Lord God of Israel came [to] Jerusalem.”

[11:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “fathers.”

[16:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “and Asa was angry at the seer, and he put him [in] the house of stocks, because of his rage with him over this.”

[18:18]  ²² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:27]  ²³ tn Heb “Listen.”

[19:7]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and now let the terror of the Lord be upon you, be careful and act for there is not with the Lord our God injustice, lifting up of a face, and taking a bribe.”

[25:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:7]  ²⁶ tn Heb “Israel, all the sons of Ephraim.”

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

[25:9]  ²⁸ tn Heb “man of God.”

[26:5]  ²⁹ tn Heb “sought.”

[26:5]  ³⁰ tn Heb “in the days of.”

[26:5]  ³¹ tn Heb “in the days of his seeking.”

[26:5]  ³² tn Or “prosper.”

[31:6]  ³³ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel and Judah.”

[31:6]  ³⁴ tn Heb “heaps, heaps.” Repetition of the noun draws attention to the large number of heaps.

[32:11]  ³⁵ tn Heb “hand.”

[32:11]  ³⁶ tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’

[32:14]  ³⁷ tn Heb “hand.”

[34:13]  ³⁸ tn Heb “[were] over the laborers and were directing every doer of work for work assignment and work assignment.”

[35:22]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and Josiah did not turn his face from him.”

[35:22]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “listen to.”

[35:22]  ⁴¹ map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.

[36:21]  ⁴² tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

[36:21]  ⁴³ tn Or “accepted.”

[36:21]  ⁴⁴ 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]  ⁴⁵ sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.

[36:21]  ⁴⁶ 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.