2 Tawarikh 1:14

Solomon’s Wealth

1:14 Solomon accumulated ¹  chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. ² 

2 Tawarikh 2:6

2:6 Of course, who can really build a temple for him, since the sky ³  and the highest heavens cannot contain him? Who am I that I should build him a temple! It will really be only a place to offer sacrifices before him. ⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 6:26

6:26 “The time will come when ⁵  the skies ⁶  are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ⁷  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ⁸  and turn away from their sin because you punish ⁹  them,

2 Tawarikh 9:8-9

9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ¹⁰  you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! ¹¹  Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, ¹²  he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” ¹³  9:9 She gave the king 120 talents ¹⁴  of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. ¹⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 9:12

9:12 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him. ¹⁶  Then she left and returned ¹⁷  to her homeland with her attendants.

2 Tawarikh 13:12

13:12 Now look, God is with us as our leader. His priests are ready to blow the trumpets to signal the attack against you. ¹⁸  You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, ¹⁹  for you will not win!”

2 Tawarikh 14:13

14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; ²⁰  they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah ²¹  carried off a huge amount of plunder.

2 Tawarikh 16:9

16:9 Certainly ²²  the Lord watches the whole earth carefully ²³  and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. ²⁴  You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.

2 Tawarikh 17:7

17:7 In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah.

2 Tawarikh 18:2

18:2 and after several years ²⁵  went down to visit ²⁶  Ahab in Samaria. ²⁷  Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle to honor Jehoshaphat and those who came with him. ²⁸  He persuaded him to join in an attack ²⁹  against Ramoth Gilead.

2 Tawarikh 18:5

18:5 So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” ³⁰  They said, “Attack! God ³¹  will hand it over to the king.”

2 Tawarikh 18:31

18:31 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The Lord helped him; God lured them away from him.

2 Tawarikh 19:2

19:2 the prophet ³²  Jehu son of Hanani confronted him; ³³  he said to King Jehoshaphat, “Is it right to help the wicked and be an ally of those who oppose the Lord? ³⁴  Because you have done this the Lord is angry with you! ³⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 20:6

20:6 He prayed: “O Lord God of our ancestors, ³⁶  you are the God who lives in heaven ³⁷  and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you.

2 Tawarikh 23:20

23:20 He summoned ³⁸  the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of land, and he then led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.

2 Tawarikh 26:11

26:11 Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official.

2 Tawarikh 30:18

30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. ³⁹  For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive ⁴⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 32:33

32:33 Hezekiah passed away ⁴¹  and was buried on the ascent of the tombs of the descendants of David. All the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem buried him with great honor. ⁴²  His son Manasseh replaced him as king.

[1:14]  ¹ tn Or “gathered.”

[1:14]  ² tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”

[1:14]  map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[2:6]  ³ tn Or “heavens” (also in v. 12). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[2:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “Who retains strength to build for him a house, for the heavens and the heavens of heavens do not contain him? And who am I that I should build for him a house, except to sacrifice before him?”

[6:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 26-27a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[6:26]  ⁶ tn Or “heavens” (also in v. 12). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[6:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “they.”

[6:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[6:26]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text reads “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“afflict”).

[9:8]  ¹⁰ tn Or “delighted in.”

[9:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”

[9:8]  ¹² tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”

[9:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[9:9]  ¹⁴ 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 8,076 lbs. (3,672 kg).

[9:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

[9:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “besides what she brought to the king.”

[9:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “turned and went.”

[13:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”

[13:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18).

[14:13]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”

[14:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:9]  ²² tn Or “for.”

[16:9]  ²³ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”

[16:9]  ²⁴ tn Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”

[18:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “at the end of years.”

[18:2]  ²⁶ tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[18:2]  ²⁷ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[18:2]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and Ahab slaughtered for him sheep and cattle in abundance, and for the people who were with him.”

[18:2]  ²⁹ tn Heb “to go up.”

[18:5]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Should we go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”

[18:5]  ³¹ tn Though Jehoshaphat had requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, yÿhvah, “Yahweh”), the Israelite prophets stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title הָאֱלֹהִים (ha’elohim, “the God”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the 400 are genuine prophets of the Lord.

[19:2]  ³² tn Or “seer.”

[19:2]  ³³ tn Heb “went out to his face.”

[19:2]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and love those who hate the Lord?”

[19:2]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and because of this upon you is anger from before the Lord.”

[20:6]  ³⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 33).

[20:6]  ³⁷ 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.

[23:20]  ³⁸ tn Heb “took.”

[30:18]  ³⁹ tn Heb “without what is written.”

[30:18]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “make atonement for.”

[32:33]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[32:33]  ⁴² tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”