2 Tawarikh 2:8

2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum ¹  trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept ²  at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants

2 Tawarikh 2:10

2:10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors ³  of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons ⁴  of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”

2 Tawarikh 2:16

2:16 we will get all the timber you need from Lebanon ⁵  and bring it ⁶  in raft-like bundles ⁷  by sea to Joppa. You can then haul it on up to Jerusalem.”

2 Tawarikh 15:16

15:16 King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother ⁸  from her position as queen mother ⁹  because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Tawarikh 21:7

21:7 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty ¹⁰  because of the promise ¹¹  he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty. ¹² 

2 Tawarikh 22:7

22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. ¹³  When Ahaziah ¹⁴  arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned ¹⁵  to wipe out Ahab’s family. ¹⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 23:3

23:3 and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada ¹⁷  said to them, “The king’s son will rule, just as the Lord promised David’s descendants.

2 Tawarikh 34:31

34:31 The king stood by his pillar ¹⁸  and renewed ¹⁹  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ²⁰  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ²¹  by carrying out the terms ²²  of this covenant recorded on this scroll.

[2:8]  ¹ tn This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12; cf. NLT. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.

[2:8]  ² tn Heb “know.”

[2:10]  ³ sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

[2:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).

[2:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “and we will cut down trees from Lebanon according to all your need.”

[2:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “to you,” but this phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons – it is somewhat redundant.

[2:16]  ⁷ tn Or “on rafts.” See the note at 1 Kgs 5:9.

[15:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors.

[15:16]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה (gÿvirah) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah.

[21:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “house.”

[21:7]  ¹¹ tn Or “covenant.”

[21:7]  ¹² 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.

[22:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”

[22:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “anointed.”

[22:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”

[23:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada the priest, cf. v. 8) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[34:31]  ¹⁸ tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”

[34:31]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”

[34:31]  ²⁰ tn Heb “walk after.”

[34:31]  ²¹ tn Or “soul.”

[34:31]  ²² tn Heb “words.”