2 Tawarikh 9:4
Konteks9:4 the food in his banquet hall, 1 his servants and attendants 2 in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, 3 she was amazed. 4
2 Tawarikh 13:11
Konteks13:11 They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly 5 we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.
2 Tawarikh 17:11
Konteks17:11 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat tribute, including a load of silver. The Arabs brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats from their flocks.
2 Tawarikh 33:6
Konteks33:6 He passed his sons through the fire 6 in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. 7 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. 8
2 Tawarikh 35:8
Konteks35:8 His officials also willingly contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of God’s temple, supplied 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 cattle.
[9:4] 1 tn Heb “the food on his table.”
[9:4] 2 tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”
[9:4] 3 tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the
[9:4] 4 tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”
[33:6] 6 tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
[33:6] 7 tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.
[33:6] 8 tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the