2 Chronicles 1:3

1:3 Solomon and the entire assembly went to the worship center ¹  in Gibeon, for the tent where they met God ²  was located there, which Moses the Lord’s servant had made in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 6:5

6:5 He told David, ³  ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ⁴  Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:20

6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ⁵  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 28:18

28:18 The Philistines had raided the cities of Judah in the lowlands ⁷  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 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ⁸  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ⁹  returned home humiliated. ¹⁰  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ¹¹  struck him down with the sword.

¹ tn Or “high place.”

² tn Heb “the tent of meeting of God.”

³ tn Heb “saying.”

⁴ tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.” Here “name” is used by metonymy for the Lord himself, and thus the expression “to be there” refers to his taking up residence there (hence the translation, “a temple in which to live”). In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

⁵ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

⁶ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

⁷ tn Heb “Shephelah.”

⁹ tn Or “an angel.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

¹² tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”