2 Tawarikh 9:11

9:11 With the timber the king made steps ¹  for the Lord’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments ²  for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah prior to that. ³ )

2 Tawarikh 25:13

25:13 Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle ⁴  raided ⁵  the cities of Judah from Samaria ⁶  to Beth Horon. They killed ⁷  3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder.

2 Tawarikh 26:15

26:15 In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful. ⁸ 

2 Tawarikh 32:17

32:17 He wrote letters mocking the Lord God of Israel and insulting him with these words: ⁹  “The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah’s god rescue his people from my power.” ¹⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 33:14

33:14 After this Manasseh ¹¹  built up the outer wall of the City of David ¹²  on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

2 Tawarikh 35:7

35:7 From his own royal flocks and herds, Josiah supplied the people with 30,000 lambs and goats for the Passover sacrifice, as well as 3,000 cattle. ¹³ 

[9:11]  ¹ tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”

[9:11]  ² tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

[9:11]  ³ tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”

[25:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “had sent back from going with him to the battle.”

[25:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “stripped.”

[25:13]  ⁶ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[25:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “struck down.”

[26:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.”

[32:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “and speaking against him, saying.”

[32:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”

[33:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:14]  ¹² sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[35:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “and Josiah supplied for the sons of the people sheep, lambs and sons of goats, the whole for the Passover sacrifices for everyone who was found according to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand cattle. These were from the property of the king.”