2 Tawarikh 9:5

9:5 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight ¹  was true!

2 Tawarikh 15:4

15:4 Because of their distress, they turned back to the Lord God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them. ² 

2 Tawarikh 20:29

20:29 All the kingdoms of the surrounding lands were afraid of God ³  when they heard how the Lord had fought against Israel’s enemies.

2 Tawarikh 22:10

Athaliah is Eliminated

22:10 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line ⁴  of Judah. ⁵ 

2 Tawarikh 33:12

33:12 In his pain ⁶  Manasseh ⁷  asked the Lord his God for mercy ⁸  and truly ⁹  humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. ¹⁰ 

2 Tawarikh 34:6

34:6 In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins ¹¹  around them,

[9:5]  ¹ tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”

[15:4]  ² tn Heb “and he allowed himself to be found by them.”

[20:29]  ³ tn Heb “and the terror of God [or “a great terror”] was upon all the kingdoms of the lands.” It is uncertain if אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) should be understood as a proper name here (“God”), or taken in an idiomatic superlative sense.

[22:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum, “arise”) is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

[22:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “house of Judah.”

[33:12]  ⁶ tn Or “distress.”

[33:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord his God.”

[33:12]  ⁹ tn Or “greatly.”

[33:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fathers.”

[34:6]  ¹¹ tn “In their ruins” is the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text.