2 Tawarikh 8:18

8:18 Huram sent him ships and some of his sailors, men who were well acquainted with the sea. They sailed with Solomon’s men to Ophir, ¹  and took from there 450 talents ²  of gold, which they brought back to King Solomon.

2 Tawarikh 20:6

20:6 He prayed: “O Lord God of our ancestors, ³  you are the God who lives in heaven ⁴  and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you.

2 Tawarikh 20:37

20:37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, “Because ⁵  you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea. ⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 24:20

24:20 God’s Spirit energized ⁷  Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’”

2 Tawarikh 25:19

25:19 You defeated Edom ⁸  and it has gone to your head. ⁹  Gloat over your success, ¹⁰  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ¹¹ 

2 Tawarikh 28:5

28:5 The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians ¹²  defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. ¹³  He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him. ¹⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 34:22

34:22 So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king ¹⁵  went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, ¹⁶  the supervisor of the wardrobe. ¹⁷  (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh ¹⁸  district.) They stated their business, ¹⁹ 

2 Tawarikh 36:22

Cyrus Allows the Exiles to Go Home

36:22 In the first year of the reign of ²⁰  King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the promise he delivered through Jeremiah, ²¹  the Lord moved ²²  King Cyrus of Persia to issue a written decree throughout his kingdom.

[8:18]  ¹ tn Heb “and Huram sent to him by the hand of his servants, ships, and servants [who] know the sea, and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir.”

[8:18]  ² tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 30,285 lbs. (13,770 kg).

[20:6]  ³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 33).

[20:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “are you not God in heaven?” The rhetorical question expects the answer “yes,” resulting in the positive statement “you are the God who lives in heaven” employed in the translation.

[20:37]  ⁵ tn Heb “when.”

[20:37]  ⁶ tn Heb “to go to Tarshish.”

[24:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “clothed.”

[25:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “you say [to yourself], ‘look, you have defeated Edom.’”

[25:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”

[25:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to glorify.”

[25:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

[28:5]  ¹² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “and took captive from him a great captivity and brought [them] to Damascus.”

[28:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “who struck him down with a great striking.”

[34:22]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and those who [were sent by] the king.”

[34:22]  ¹⁶ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 22:14 has the variant spelling “son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas.”

[34:22]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

[34:22]  ¹⁸ tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

[34:22]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they spoke to her like this.”

[36:22]  ²⁰ tn The words “the reign of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[36:22]  ²¹ tn Heb “to complete the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

[36:22]  sn Regarding the promise he delivered through Jeremiah see Jer 29:10.

[36:22]  ²² tn Heb “stirred the spirit of.”