2 Tawarikh 1:11

1:11 God said to Solomon, “Because you desire this, ¹  and did not ask for riches, wealth, and honor, or for vengeance on your enemies, ²  and because you did not ask for long life, ³  but requested wisdom and discernment so you can make judicial decisions for my people over whom I have made you king,

2 Tawarikh 1:14

Solomon’s Wealth

1:14 Solomon accumulated ⁴  chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. ⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 1:17

1:17 They paid 600 silver pieces for each chariot from Egypt, and 150 silver pieces for each horse. They also sold chariots and horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria. ⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 2:7-8

2:7 “Now send me a man who is skilled in working with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as purple, crimson, and violet colored fabrics, and who knows how to engrave. He will work with my skilled craftsmen here in Jerusalem ⁷  and Judah, whom my father David provided. 2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum ⁸  trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept ⁹  at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants

2 Tawarikh 4:6

4:6 He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.”

2 Tawarikh 4:11

4:11 Huram Abi ¹⁰  made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. ¹¹ 

2 Tawarikh 7:20

7:20 then I will remove you ¹²  from my land I have given you, ¹³  I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ¹⁴  and I will make you ¹⁵  an object of mockery and ridicule ¹⁶  among all the nations.

2 Tawarikh 8:6

8:6 and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, ¹⁷  and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. ¹⁸  He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, ¹⁹  Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. ²⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 9:12

9:12 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him. ²¹  Then she left and returned ²²  to her homeland with her attendants.

2 Tawarikh 9:29

Solomon’s Reign Ends

9:29 The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded ²³  in the Annals of Nathan the Prophet, the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and the Vision of Iddo the Seer pertaining to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

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 20:17

20:17 You will not fight in this battle. Take your positions, stand, and watch the Lord deliver you, ²⁴  O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ²⁵  Tomorrow march out toward them; the Lord is with you!’”

2 Tawarikh 25:16

25:16 While he was speaking, Amaziah ²⁶  said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” ²⁷  So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided ²⁸  to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”

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. ²⁹ 

2 Tawarikh 28:18

28:18 The Philistines had raided the cities of Judah in the lowlands ³⁰  and the Negev. They captured and settled in Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its surrounding villages, Timnah and its surrounding villages, and Gimzo and its surrounding villages.

2 Tawarikh 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire ³¹  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. ³²  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. ³³ 

2 Tawarikh 33:14

33:14 After this Manasseh ³⁴  built up the outer wall of the City of David ³⁵  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 35:8

35:8 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.

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. ³⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 36:10

36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought ³⁷  to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative ³⁸  Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “because this was in your heart.”

[1:11]  ² tn Heb “the life of those who hate you.”

[1:11]  ³ tn Heb “many days.”

[1:14]  ⁴ tn Or “gathered.”

[1:14]  ⁵ 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.

[1:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they brought up and brought out from Egypt a chariot for 600 silver (pieces), and a horse for 150, and in the same way to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram by their hand they brought out.”

[2:7]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[2:8]  ⁸ tn This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12; cf. NLT. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.

[2:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “know.”

[4:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Huram,” but here this refers to Huram Abi (2 Chr 2:13). The complete name has been used in the translation to avoid possible confusion with King Huram of Tyre.

[4:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Huram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of God.”

[7:20]  ¹² tn Heb “them.” The switch from the second to the third person pronoun is rhetorically effective, for it mirrors God’s rejection of his people – he has stopped addressing them as “you” and begun addressing them as “them.” However, the switch is awkward and confusing in English, so the translation maintains the direct address style.

[7:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.

[7:20]  ¹⁴ tc Instead of “I will throw away,” the parallel text in 1 Kgs 9:7 has “I will send away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.

[7:20]  tn Heb “and this temple which I consecrated for my name I will throw away from before my face.”

[7:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “him,” which appears in context to refer to Israel (i.e., “you” in direct address). Many translations understand the direct object of the verb “make” to be the temple (NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “it”).

[7:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and I will make him [i.e., Israel] a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

[8:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name is unexpected in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

[8:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”

[8:6]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

[9:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “besides what she brought to the king.”

[9:12]  ²² tn Heb “turned and went.”

[9:29]  ²³ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Solomon, the former and the latter, are they not written?”

[20:17]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the deliverance of the Lord with you.”

[20:17]  ²⁵ tn Or perhaps “don’t get discouraged.”

[25:16]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:16]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Stop yourself! Why should they strike you down?”

[25:16]  ²⁸ tn The verb יָעַץ (ya’ats, “has decided”) is from the same root as יוֹעֵץ (yo’ets, “counselor”) in v. 16 and עֵצָה (’etsah, “advice”) later in v. 16. The wordplay highlights the appropriate nature of the divine punishment. Amaziah rejected the counsel of God’s prophet; now he would be the victim of God’s “counsel.”

[26:15]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.”

[28:18]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Shephelah.”

[33:6]  ³¹ 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]  ³² 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]  ³³ tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[33:14]  ³⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:14]  ³⁵ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[35:12]  ³⁶ 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.”

[36:10]  ³⁷ tn Heb “sent and brought him.”

[36:10]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).