2 Chronicles 1:7

1:7 That night God appeared¹ to Solomon and said to him, “Tell me² what I should give you.”

2 Chronicles 10:3

10:3 They sent for him³ and Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

11:12 In each city there were shields and spears; he strongly fortified them.⁴ Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

11:19 She bore him sons named Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

12:8 Yet they will become his subjects, so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations.”⁵

15:4 Because of their distress, they turned back to the Lord God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them.⁶

17:13 He had many supplies stored in the cities of Judah and an army of skilled warriors stationed in Jerusalem.⁷

28:16 At that time King Ahaz asked the king⁸ of Assyria for help.

28:20 King Tiglath-pileser⁹ of Assyria came, but he gave him more trouble than support.¹⁰

28:22 During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.

33:12 In his pain¹¹ Manasseh¹² asked the Lord his God for mercy¹³ and truly¹⁴ humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.¹⁵

¹tn Or “revealed himself.”

²tn Heb “ask.”

³tn Heb “They sent and called for him.”

⁵tn Heb “he strengthened them greatly, very much.”

⁷tn Heb “so they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.”

⁹tn Heb “and he allowed himself to be found by them.”

¹¹tn Heb “and many supplies were his in the cities of Judah, and men of war, warriors of skill in Jerusalem.”

¹³tc Most Hebrew mss read the plural, “kings,” but one Hebrew ms, the LXX and Vulgate read the singular “king.” Note the singular in v. 20.

¹⁵tn Heb “Tilgath-pilneser,” a variant spelling of Tiglath-pileser.

¹⁶tn Heb “and he caused him distress and did not strengthen him.”

¹⁷tn Or “distress.”

¹⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord his God.”

²⁰tn Or “greatly.”

²¹tn Heb “fathers.”