2 Tawarikh 1:2

1:2 Solomon addressed all Israel, including those who commanded units of a thousand and a hundred, the judges, and all the leaders of all Israel who were heads of families.

2 Tawarikh 2:2

2:2 (2:1) Solomon had ¹  70,000 common laborers ²  and 80,000 stonecutters ³  in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors. ⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 4:2

4:2 He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” ⁵  It measured 15 feet ⁶  from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet ⁷  high. Its circumference was 45 feet. ⁸ 

2 Tawarikh 4:19

4:19 Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence ⁹  was kept,

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 6:15

6:15 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ¹⁰  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ¹¹ 

2 Tawarikh 9:19

9:19 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. ¹² 

2 Tawarikh 9:21

9:21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships ¹³  manned by Huram’s men ¹⁴  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ¹⁵  came into port with cargoes of ¹⁶  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ¹⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 9:27

9:27 The king made silver as plentiful ¹⁸  in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was ¹⁹  as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands ²⁰ .

2 Tawarikh 12:12

12:12 So when Rehoboam ²¹  humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; ²²  Judah experienced some good things. ²³ 

2 Tawarikh 16:2

16:2 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and sent it to King Ben Hadad of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:

2 Tawarikh 16:4

16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ²⁴  They conquered ²⁵  Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, ²⁶  and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

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. ²⁷  Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.

2 Tawarikh 17:8

17:8 They were accompanied by the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah, and by the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

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 18:18

18:18 Micaiah ²⁸  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 18:29-30

18:29 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter ²⁹  the battle; but you wear your royal attire.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and they entered the battle. 18:30 Now the king of Syria had ordered his chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high ranking officers; ³⁰  fight only the king of Israel!”

2 Tawarikh 19:7

19:7 Respect the Lord and make careful decisions, for the Lord our God disapproves of injustice, partiality, and bribery.” ³¹ 

2 Tawarikh 21:6

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. ³²  He did evil in the sight of ³³  the Lord.

2 Tawarikh 22:4

22:4 He did evil in the sight of ³⁴  the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they ³⁵  gave him advice that led to his destruction.

2 Tawarikh 23:9

23:9 Jehoiada the priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and shields ³⁶  that were kept in God’s temple.

2 Tawarikh 24:9

24:9 An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the Lord the tax that Moses, God’s servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness. ³⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 25:8

25:8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you ³⁸  before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.” ³⁹ 

2 Tawarikh 25:15

25:15 The Lord was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why are you following ⁴⁰  these gods ⁴¹  that could not deliver their own people from your power?” ⁴² 

2 Tawarikh 28:8

28:8 The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it ⁴³  back to Samaria. ⁴⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 29:7-8

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. 29:8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, ⁴⁵  as you can see with your own eyes.

2 Tawarikh 29:15

29:15 They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word ⁴⁶  of the Lord.

2 Tawarikh 29:35

29:35 There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted. ⁴⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 30:12

30:12 In Judah God moved the people to unite and carry out the edict the king and the officers had issued at the Lord’s command. ⁴⁸ 

2 Tawarikh 30:27

30:27 The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The Lord responded favorably to them ⁴⁹  as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.

2 Tawarikh 31:6

31:6 The Israelites and people of Judah ⁵⁰  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. ⁵¹ 

2 Tawarikh 32:8

32:8 He has with him mere human strength, ⁵²  but the Lord our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!” The army ⁵³  was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.

2 Tawarikh 32:11

32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power ⁵⁴  of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! ⁵⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 33:11

33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, ⁵⁶  bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

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 ⁵⁷  spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded ⁵⁸  in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

2 Tawarikh 33:22

33:22 He did evil in the sight of ⁵⁹  the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped ⁶⁰  them.

2 Tawarikh 34:7

34:7 he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Tawarikh 34:13-15

34:13 supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. ⁶¹  Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

34:14 When they took out the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the law scroll the Lord had given to Moses. 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 34:32

34:32 He made all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin agree to it. ⁶²  The residents of Jerusalem acted in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.

2 Tawarikh 35:13

35:13 They cooked the Passover sacrifices over the open fire as prescribed and cooked the consecrated offerings in pots, kettles, and pans. They quickly served them to all the people.

2 Tawarikh 35:22-23

35:22 But Josiah did not turn back from him; ⁶³  he disguised himself for battle. He did not take seriously ⁶⁴  the words of Necho which he had received from God; he went to fight him in the Plain of Megiddo. ⁶⁵  35:23 Archers shot King Josiah; the king ordered his servants, “Take me out of this chariot, ⁶⁶  for I am seriously wounded.”

2 Tawarikh 35:25

35:25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

2 Tawarikh 36:18

36:18 He carried away to Babylon all the items in God’s temple, whether large or small, as well as what was in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king and his officials.

[2:2]  ¹ tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[2:2]  ² tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

[2:2]  ³ tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

[2:2]  ⁴ tc The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek mss there read “thirty-six hundred” in agreement with 2 Chr 2:2, 18.

[2:2]  tn Heb “and 3,600 supervisors over them.”

[4:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”

[4:2]  sn The large bronze basin known as “The Sea” was mounted on twelve bronze bulls and contained water for the priests to bathe themselves (see v. 6; cf. Exod 30:17-21).

[4:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the diameter would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).

[4:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 7.5 feet (2.25 m).

[4:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”

[4:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “the bread of the face/presence.”

[4:19]  sn This bread offered to God was viewed as a perpetual offering to God. See Lev 24:5-9.

[6:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

[6:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”

[9:19]  ¹² tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for any kingdom.”

[9:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[9:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “servants.”

[9:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

[9:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”

[9:21]  ¹⁷ tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”

[9:27]  ¹⁸ tn The words “as plentiful” are supplied for clarification.

[9:27]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he made cedar.”

[9:27]  ²⁰ tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”

[12:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:12]  ²² tn Heb “the anger of the Lord turned from him and did not destroy completely.”

[12:12]  ²³ tn Heb “and also in Judah there were good things.”

[16:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

[16:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “They struck down.”

[16:4]  ²⁶ sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

[16:10]  ²⁷ 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]  ²⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:29]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives (see IBHS 594 §35.5.2a). Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.

[18:30]  ³⁰ tn Heb “small or great.”

[19:7]  ³¹ 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.”

[21:6]  ³² 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]  ³³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[22:4]  ³⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[22:4]  ³⁵ tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.

[23:9]  ³⁶ tn The Hebrew text lists two different types of shields here. Most translations render “the large and small shields” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV; NEB “King David’s spears, shields, and bucklers”).

[24:9]  ³⁷ tn Heb “and they gave voice in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to the Lord the tax of Moses the servant of God upon Israel in the wilderness.”

[25:8]  ³⁸ tn Heb “cause you to stumble.”

[25:8]  ³⁹ tn Heb “to cause to stumble.”

[25:15]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “seeking,” perhaps in the sense of “consulting [an oracle from].”

[25:15]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “the gods of the people.”

[25:15]  ⁴² tn Heb “hand.”

[28:8]  ⁴³ tn Heb “the loot.” The pronoun (“it”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

[28:8]  ⁴⁴ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[29:8]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”

[29:15]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “words” (plural).

[29:35]  ⁴⁷ tn Or “established.”

[30:12]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “also in Judah the hand of God was to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and the officials by the word of the Lord.”

[30:27]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “and it was heard with their voice.” BDB 1034 s.v. שָׁמַע Niph.4 interprets this to mean “hearing was granted to their voice.” It is possible that the name יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the Lord”) has been accidentally omitted.

[31:6]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel and Judah.”

[31:6]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “heaps, heaps.” Repetition of the noun draws attention to the large number of heaps.

[32:8]  ⁵² tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”

[32:8]  ⁵³ tn Or “people.”

[32:11]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “hand.”

[32:11]  ⁵⁵ 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’?’

[33:11]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”

[33:18]  ⁵⁷ tn Or “seers.”

[33:18]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “look, they are.”

[33:22]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[33:22]  ⁶⁰ tn Or “served.”

[34:13]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “[were] over the laborers and were directing every doer of work for work assignment and work assignment.”

[34:32]  ⁶² tn Heb “and he caused to stand everyone who was found in Jerusalem and Benjamin.”

[35:22]  ⁶³ tn Heb “and Josiah did not turn his face from him.”

[35:22]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “listen to.”

[35:22]  ⁶⁵ map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.

[35:23]  ⁶⁶ tn Heb “carry me away.”