2 Chronicles 1:12

1:12 you are granted wisdom and discernment. ¹  Furthermore I am giving you riches, wealth, and honor surpassing that of any king before or after you.” ² 

2 Chronicles 6:27

6:27 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ³  you will then teach them the right way to live ⁴  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 7:20

7:20 then I will remove you ⁶  from my land I have given you, ⁷  I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ⁸  and I will make you ⁹  an object of mockery and ridicule ¹⁰  among all the nations.

2 Chronicles 9:8-9

9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ¹¹  you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! ¹²  Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, ¹³  he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” ¹⁴  9:9 She gave the king 120 talents ¹⁵  of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. ¹⁶ 

2 Chronicles 21:3

21:3 Their father gave them many presents, including silver, gold, and other precious items, along with fortified cities in Judah. But he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

2 Chronicles 25:9

25:9 Amaziah asked the prophet: ¹⁷  “But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?” The prophet ¹⁸  replied, “The Lord is capable of giving you more than that.”

2 Chronicles 28:5

28:5 The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians ¹⁹  defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. ²⁰  He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him. ²¹ 

2 Chronicles 34:10

34:10 They handed it over to the construction foremen ²²  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it. ²³ 

¹ tn Heb “wisdom and discernment are given to you.”

² tn Heb “which was not so for the kings who were before you, and after you there will not be so.”

³ tn The present translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense (“Certainly”). Other translation have “indeed” (NASB), “when” (NRSV), “so” (NEB), or leave the word untranslated (NIV).

⁴ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

⁵ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

⁵ 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.

⁶ tn Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.

⁷ 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.

⁸ 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”).

⁹ 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.

⁷ tn Or “delighted in.”

⁸ tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”

⁹ tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

⁹ tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 8,076 lbs. (3,672 kg).

¹⁰ tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

¹¹ tn Heb “said to the man of God.”

¹² tn Heb “man of God.”

¹³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Heb “and took captive from him a great captivity and brought [them] to Damascus.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “who struck him down with a great striking.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “doer[s] of the work.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and they gave it to the doers of the work who were working in the house of the Lord to restore and to repair the house.”