2 Tawarikh 6:5
Konteks6:5 He told David, 1 ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. 2 Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.
2 Tawarikh 7:8
Konteks7:8 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival for seven days. This great assembly included people from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt in the south. 3
2 Tawarikh 32:33
Konteks32:33 Hezekiah passed away 4 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. 5 His son Manasseh replaced him as king.
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 34:4
Konteks34:4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, 9 and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
2 Tawarikh 34:31
Konteks34:31 The king stood by his pillar 10 and renewed 11 the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow 12 the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, 13 by carrying out the terms 14 of this covenant recorded on this scroll.
2 Tawarikh 35:3
Konteks35:3 He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the Lord, “Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don’t carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel!
2 Tawarikh 36:22
Konteks36:22 In the first year of the reign of 15 King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the promise he delivered through Jeremiah, 16 the Lord moved 17 King Cyrus of Persia to issue a written decree throughout his kingdom.
[6:5] 2 tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.” Here “name” is used by metonymy for the
[7:8] 3 tn Heb “Solomon held the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel was with him, a very great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the wadi of Egypt.”
[32:33] 4 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
[32:33] 5 tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”
[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
[34:4] 9 tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”
[34:31] 10 tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”
[34:31] 11 tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”
[34:31] 12 tn Heb “walk after.”
[36:22] 15 tn The words “the reign of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[36:22] 16 tn Heb “to complete the word of the
[36:22] sn Regarding the promise he delivered through Jeremiah see Jer 29:10.
