2 Tawarikh 5:10

5:10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. ¹  (It was there that ²  the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.)

2 Tawarikh 6:24

6:24 “If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ³  because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ⁴  and pray for your help ⁵  before you in this temple,

2 Tawarikh 6:26

6:26 “The time will come when ⁶  the skies ⁷  are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ⁸  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ⁹  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹⁰  them,

2 Tawarikh 6:32

6:32 “Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your great reputation ¹¹  and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds; ¹²  they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

2 Tawarikh 7:8

7:8 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. ¹³ 

2 Tawarikh 7:10

7:10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon ¹⁴  sent the people home. They left ¹⁵  happy and contented ¹⁶  because of the good the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.

2 Tawarikh 7:20

7:20 then I will remove you ¹⁷  from my land I have given you, ¹⁸  I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ¹⁹  and I will make you ²⁰  an object of mockery and ridicule ²¹  among all the nations.

2 Tawarikh 8:11

8:11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David ²²  to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”

2 Tawarikh 9:4

9:4 the food in his banquet hall, ²³  his servants and attendants ²⁴  in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, ²⁵  she was amazed. ²⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 12:5

12:5 Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’” ²⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 14:13

14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; ²⁸  they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah ²⁹  carried off a huge amount of plunder.

2 Tawarikh 15:2

15:2 He met ³⁰  Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. ³¹  If you seek him, he will respond to you, ³²  but if you reject him, he will reject you.

2 Tawarikh 16:9

16:9 Certainly ³³  the Lord watches the whole earth carefully ³⁴  and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. ³⁵  You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.

2 Tawarikh 18:7

18:7 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. ³⁶  But I despise ³⁷  him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but always ³⁸  disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. ³⁹  Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things!”

2 Tawarikh 18:16

18:16 Micaiah ⁴⁰  replied, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”

2 Tawarikh 20:9

20:9 ‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, ⁴¹  judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. ⁴²  We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will ⁴³  hear and deliver us.’

2 Tawarikh 20:37

20:37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, “Because ⁴⁴  you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea. ⁴⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 21:13

21:13 but have instead followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. You encouraged the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord, just as the family of Ahab does in Israel. ⁴⁶  You also killed your brothers, members of your father’s family, ⁴⁷  who were better than you.

2 Tawarikh 22:11

22:11 So Jehoshabeath, ⁴⁸  the daughter of King Jehoram, ⁴⁹  took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away ⁵⁰  from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

2 Tawarikh 23:2

23:2 They traveled throughout Judah and assembled the Levites from all the cities of Judah, as well as the Israelite family leaders.

They came to Jerusalem, ⁵¹ 

2 Tawarikh 24:11

24:11 Whenever the Levites brought the chest to the royal accountant and they saw there was a lot of silver, the royal scribe and the accountant of the high priest emptied the chest and then took it back to its place. They went through this routine every day and collected a large amount of silver.

2 Tawarikh 25:4

25:4 However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, ⁵²  “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, ⁵³  and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. ⁵⁴  A man must be executed only for his own sin.” ⁵⁵ 

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. ⁵⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 26:19

26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving ⁵⁷  at the priests, a skin disease ⁵⁸  appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.

2 Tawarikh 28:1

Ahaz’s Reign

28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁵⁹  He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David. ⁶⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 28:3

28:3 He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, ⁶¹  a horrible sin practiced by the nations ⁶²  whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.

2 Tawarikh 28:13

28:13 They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the Lord? ⁶³  Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” ⁶⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 29:34

29:34 But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, ⁶⁵  so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.) ⁶⁶ 

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. ⁶⁷  For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive ⁶⁸ 

2 Tawarikh 31:3

31:3 The king contributed ⁶⁹  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 ⁷⁰  in the law of the Lord.

2 Tawarikh 31:5

31:5 When the edict was issued, ⁷¹  the Israelites freely contributed ⁷²  the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount.

2 Tawarikh 32:12

32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated ⁷³  the Lord’s ⁷⁴  high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”

2 Tawarikh 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire ⁷⁵  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. ⁷⁶  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. ⁷⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 34:25

34:25 This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices ⁷⁸  to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. ⁷⁹  My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”

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. ⁸⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 35:24

35:24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, put him in another chariot that he owned, and brought him to Jerusalem, ⁸¹  where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors; ⁸²  all the people of Judah and Jerusalem mourned Josiah.

[5:10]  ¹ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1).

[5:10]  ² tn Heb “in Horeb where.”

[6:24]  ³ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[6:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[6:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

[6:26]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Heb “they.”

[6:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[6:26]  ¹⁰ 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”).

[6:32]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your great name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your great reputation”).

[6:32]  ¹² tn Heb “and your strong hand and your outstretched arm.”

[7:8]  ¹³ 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.”

[7:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:10]  ¹⁵ tn The words “they left” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “good of heart.”

[7:20]  ¹⁷ 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]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.

[7:20]  ¹⁹ 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]  ²⁰ 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]  ²¹ 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.

[8:11]  ²² sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[9:4]  ²³ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[9:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[9:4]  ²⁵ tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (’aliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (’olato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.

[9:4]  ²⁶ tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

[12:5]  ²⁷ tn Heb “also I have rejected you into the hand of Shishak.”

[14:13]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”

[14:13]  ²⁹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:2]  ³⁰ tn Heb “went out before.”

[15:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “when you are with him.”

[15:2]  ³² tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”

[16:9]  ³³ tn Or “for.”

[16:9]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”

[16:9]  ³⁵ tn Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”

[18:7]  ³⁶ tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”

[18:7]  ³⁷ tn Or “hate.”

[18:7]  ³⁸ tn Heb “all his days.”

[18:7]  ³⁹ tn The words “his name is” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[18:16]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:9]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “sword.”

[20:9]  ⁴² tn Heb “for your name is in this house.” The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name. In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

[20:9]  ⁴³ tn Or “so that you may.”

[20:37]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “when.”

[20:37]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “to go to Tarshish.”

[21:13]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “and you walked in the way of the kings of Israel and caused Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to commit adultery, like the house of Ahab causes to commit adultery.”

[21:13]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “the house of your father.”

[22:11]  ⁴⁸ sn Jehoshabeath is a variant spelling of the name Jehosheba (2 Kgs 11:2).

[22:11]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:11]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “stole.”

[23:2]  ⁵¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[25:4]  ⁵² tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

[25:4]  ⁵³ tn Heb “on account of sons.”

[25:4]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “on account of fathers.”

[25:4]  ⁵⁵ sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.

[26:15]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.”

[26:19]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “angry.”

[26:19]  ⁵⁸ tn Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s disease). See 2 Kgs 5:1.

[28:1]  ⁵⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[28:1]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.”

[28:3]  ⁶¹ sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB “burnt his sons in the fire”; NASB “burned his sons in 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.

[28:3]  ⁶² tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[28:13]  ⁶³ tn Heb “for to the guilt of the Lord upon us you are saying to add to our sins and our guilty deeds.”

[28:13]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”

[29:34]  ⁶⁵ tn Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”

[29:34]  ⁶⁶ tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”

[30:18]  ⁶⁷ tn Heb “without what is written.”

[30:18]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “make atonement for.”

[31:3]  ⁶⁹ tn Heb “the portion of the king [was].”

[31:3]  ⁷⁰ tn Heb “as written.”

[31:5]  ⁷¹ tn Heb “and when the word spread out.”

[31:5]  ⁷² tn Heb “the sons of Israel multiplied.”

[32:12]  ⁷³ tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.

[32:12]  ⁷⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:6]  ⁷⁵ 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]  ⁷⁶ 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]  ⁷⁷ tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[34:25]  ⁷⁸ tn Or “burned incense.”

[34:25]  ⁷⁹ tn Heb “angering me with all the work of their hands.” The present translation assumes this refers to idols they have manufactured (note the preceding reference to “other gods”). However, it is possible that this is a general reference to their sinful practices, in which case one might translate, “angering me by all the things they do.”

[35:12]  ⁸⁰ 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.”

[35:24]  ⁸¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[35:24]  ⁸² tn Heb “fathers.”