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 2:7

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 ³  and Judah, whom my father David provided.

2 Tawarikh 2:10

2:10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors ⁴  of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons ⁵  of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”

2 Tawarikh 4:11

4:11 Huram Abi ⁶  made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. ⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 6:37

6:37 When your people ⁸  come to their senses ⁹  in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray ¹⁰ , we have done evil!’

2 Tawarikh 7:3

7:3 When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the Lord’s splendor over the temple, they got on their knees with their faces downward toward the pavement. They worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, ¹¹  “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!”

2 Tawarikh 13:8

13:8 Now you are declaring that you will resist the Lord’s rule through the Davidic dynasty. ¹²  You have a huge army, ¹³  and bring with you the gold calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

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. ¹⁴  You Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, ¹⁵  for you will not win!”

2 Tawarikh 15:16

15:16 King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother ¹⁶  from her position as queen mother ¹⁷  because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Tawarikh 16:9

16:9 Certainly ¹⁸  the Lord watches the whole earth carefully ¹⁹  and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. ²⁰  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 24:24

24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, ²¹  for the people of Judah ²²  had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians ²³  gave Joash what he deserved. ²⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 25:19

25:19 You defeated Edom ²⁵  and it has gone to your head. ²⁶  Gloat over your success, ²⁷  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ²⁸ 

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 29:12

29:12 The following Levites prepared to carry out the king’s orders: ²⁹ 

From the Kohathites: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;

from the Merarites: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;

from the Gershonites: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;

2 Tawarikh 29:25

29:25 King Hezekiah ³⁰  stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, ³¹  and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

2 Tawarikh 30:8

30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn ³²  like your fathers! Submit ³³  to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. ³⁴ 

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 30:21

30:21 The Israelites who were in Jerusalem observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy. The Levites and priests were praising the Lord every day with all their might. ³⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 32:5

32:5 Hezekiah ³⁶  energetically rebuilt ³⁷  every broken wall. He erected towers and an outer wall, ³⁸  and fortified the terrace of the City of David. ³⁹  He made many weapons and shields.

2 Tawarikh 32:33

32:33 Hezekiah passed away ⁴⁰  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. ⁴¹  His son Manasseh replaced him as king.

2 Tawarikh 35:7-8

35:7 From his own royal flocks and herds, Josiah supplied the people with 30,000 lambs and goats for the Passover sacrifice, as well as 3,000 cattle. ⁴²  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. ⁴³ 

2 Tawarikh 36:22

Cyrus Allows the Exiles to Go Home

36:22 In the first year of the reign of ⁴⁴  King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the promise he delivered through Jeremiah, ⁴⁵  the Lord moved ⁴⁶  King Cyrus of Persia to issue a written decree throughout his kingdom.

[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.

[2:7]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[2:10]  ⁴ sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

[2:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).

[4:11]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “Huram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of God.”

[6:37]  ⁸ tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:37]  ⁹ tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”

[6:37]  ¹⁰ tn Or “done wrong.”

[7:3]  ¹¹ tn The word “saying” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:8]  ¹² tn Heb “the kingdom of the Lord by the hand of the sons of David.”

[13:8]  ¹³ tn Or “horde”; or “multitude.”

[13:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and his priests and the trumpets of the war alarm [are ready] to sound out against you.”

[13:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 18).

[15:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors.

[15:16]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה (gÿvirah) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah.

[16:9]  ¹⁸ tn Or “for.”

[16:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”

[16:9]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”

[24:24]  ²¹ tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”

[24:24]  ²² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ²³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ²⁴ tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”

[25:19]  ²⁵ tn Heb “you say [to yourself], ‘look, you have defeated Edom.’”

[25:19]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”

[25:19]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to glorify.”

[25:19]  ²⁸ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

[29:12]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and the Levites arose.”

[29:25]  ³⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (King Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[29:25]  ³¹ tn Or “seer.”

[30:8]  ³² tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).

[30:8]  ³³ tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.

[30:8]  ³⁴ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[30:21]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and they were praising the Lord day by day, the Levites and the priests with instruments of strength to the Lord.” The phrase בִּכְלֵי־עֹז (bikhley-’oz, “with instruments of strength”) might refer to loud sounding musical instruments (NASB “with loud instruments”; NEB “with unrestrained fervour”). The present translation assumes an emendation to בְּכָל־עֹז (bÿkhol-’oz, “with all strength”); see 1 Chr 13:8, as well as HALOT 805 s.v. I עֹז and BDB 739 s.v. עֹז).

[32:5]  ³⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:5]  ³⁷ tn Heb “strengthened himself and built.”

[32:5]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and outside the wall another one.”

[32:5]  ³⁹ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[32:33]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[32:33]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”

[35:7]  ⁴² tn Heb “and Josiah supplied for the sons of the people sheep, lambs and sons of goats, the whole for the Passover sacrifices for everyone who was found according to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand cattle. These were from the property of the king.”

[35:12]  ⁴³ 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.”

[36:22]  ⁴⁴ tn The words “the reign of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[36:22]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “to complete the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

[36:22]  sn Regarding the promise he delivered through Jeremiah see Jer 29:10.

[36:22]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “stirred the spirit of.”