2 Tawarikh 6:30

6:30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ¹  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives. ²  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ³ 

2 Tawarikh 9:8

9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ⁴  you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! ⁵  Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, ⁶  he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” ⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 12:15

12:15 The events of Rehoboam’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded ⁸  in the Annals of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that include genealogical records.

2 Tawarikh 15:9

15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers ⁹  from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live ¹⁰  when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

2 Tawarikh 15:15

15:15 All Judah was happy about the oath, because they made the vow with their whole heart. They willingly sought the Lord and he responded to them. ¹¹  He made them secure on every side. ¹² 

2 Tawarikh 19:11

19:11 You will report to Amariah the chief priest in all matters pertaining to the Lord’s law, and to Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the leader of the family of Judah, in all matters pertaining to the king. ¹³  The Levites will serve as officials before you. Confidently carry out your duties! ¹⁴  May the Lord be with those who do well!”

2 Tawarikh 20:7

20:7 Our God, you drove out ¹⁵  the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession ¹⁶  to the descendants of your friend ¹⁷  Abraham.

2 Tawarikh 24:6

24:6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, ¹⁸  and said to him, “Why have you not made ¹⁹  the Levites collect ²⁰  from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?” ²¹ 

2 Tawarikh 25:23

25:23 King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet. ²² 

2 Tawarikh 26:21

26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ²³  afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

2 Tawarikh 29:24

29:24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed ²⁴  that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.

2 Tawarikh 30:15

30:15 They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the Lord’s temple.

2 Tawarikh 31:3

31:3 The king contributed ²⁵  some of what he owned for burnt sacrifices, including the morning and evening burnt sacrifices and the burnt sacrifices made on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other appointed times prescribed ²⁶  in the law of the Lord.

2 Tawarikh 31:16

31:16 They made disbursements to all the males three years old and up who were listed in the genealogical records – to all who would enter the Lord’s temple to serve on a daily basis and fulfill their duties as assigned to their divisions. ²⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 35:12

35:12 They reserved the burnt offerings and the cattle for the family divisions of the people to present to the Lord, as prescribed in the scroll of Moses. ²⁸ 

2 Tawarikh 35:15

35:15 The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their posts, as prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet. ²⁹  The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them.

2 Tawarikh 36:17

36:17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered ³⁰  their young men in their temple. ³¹  He did not spare ³²  young men or women, or even the old and aging. God ³³  handed everyone over to him.

[6:30]  ¹ tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.

[6:30]  ² tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 28-30a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

[6:30]  ³ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[9:8]  ⁴ tn Or “delighted in.”

[9:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”

[9:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”

[9:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[12:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “As for the events of Rehoboam, the former and the latter, are they not written?”

[15:9]  ⁹ tn Or “resident aliens.”

[15:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”

[15:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and with all their desire they sought him and he allowed himself to be found by them.”

[15:15]  ¹² tn Heb “and the Lord gave them rest all around.”

[19:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “and look, Amariah the chief priest is over you with respect to every matter of the Lord, and Zebadiah…with respect to every matter of the king.”

[19:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Be strong and act!”

[20:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “did you not drive out?” This is another rhetorical question which expects a positive response; see the note on the word “heaven” in the previous verse.

[20:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “permanently.”

[20:7]  ¹⁷ tn Or perhaps “your covenantal partner.” See Isa 41:8.

[24:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Jehoiada the head”; the word “priest” not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

[24:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “sought.”

[24:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “bring.”

[24:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “the tent of testimony.”

[25:23]  ²² tn Heb “400 cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the distance would have been about 600 feet (180 m).

[26:21]  ²³ tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.

[29:24]  ²⁴ tn Heb “said.”

[31:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the portion of the king [was].”

[31:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “as written.”

[31:16]  ²⁷ tn Heb “in addition enrolling them by males from a son of three years and upwards, to everyone who enters the house of the Lord for a matter of a day in its day, for their service by their duties according to their divisions.”

[35:12]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and they put aside the burnt offering[s] to give them to the divisions of the house of the fathers for the sons of the people to bring near to the Lord as it is written in the scroll of Moses – and the same with the cattle.”

[35:15]  ²⁹ tn Or “seer.”

[36:17]  ³⁰ tn Heb “killed with the sword.”

[36:17]  ³¹ tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”

[36:17]  ³² tn Or “show compassion to.”

[36:17]  ³³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.