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 6:7

6:7 Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel.³

2 Chronicles 9:23

9:23 All the kings of the earth wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.⁴

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho⁵ sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah?⁶ I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war.⁷ God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.”⁸

2 Chronicles 6:8

6:8 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.⁹

2 Chronicles 10:9

10:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”¹⁰

2 Chronicles 25:20

25:20 But Amaziah did not heed the warning,¹¹ for God wanted to hand them over to Joash because they followed the gods of Edom.¹²

2 Chronicles 8:6

8:6 and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him,¹³ and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept.¹⁴ He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem,¹⁵ Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.¹⁶

2 Chronicles 11:16

11:16 Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the Lord God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem¹⁷ to sacrifice to the Lord God of their ancestors.¹⁸

2 Chronicles 16:3

16:3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made.¹⁹ See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.”²⁰

2 Chronicles 21:20

21:20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. No one regretted his death;²¹ he was buried in the City of David,²² but not in the royal tombs.

2 Chronicles 26:20

26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at²³ him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king²⁴ himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.

¹tn Or “revealed himself.”

²tn Heb “ask.”

³tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.”

⁵tn Heb “and all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”

⁷tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

⁹tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

¹⁰tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”

⁹tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”

¹¹tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

¹³tn Heb “did not listen.”

¹⁴tn Heb “because it was from God in order to give them into the hand because they sought the gods of Edom.”

¹⁵tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name is unexpected in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

¹⁶tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”

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¹⁸tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and after them from all the tribes of Israel, the ones giving their heart[s] to seek the Lord God of Israel came [to] Jerusalem.”

¹⁸tn Heb “fathers.”

¹⁹tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

²⁰tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

²¹tn Heb “and he went without desire.”

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

²³tn Heb “turned toward.”

²⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.