2 Chronicles 10:15

10:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events¹ so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made² through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

2 Chronicles 11:4

11:4 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’”³ They obeyed the Lord and called off the attack against Jeroboam.⁴

2 Chronicles 19:8

19:8 In Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites, priests, and Israelite family leaders to judge on behalf of the Lord⁵ and to settle disputes among the residents of Jerusalem.⁶

2 Chronicles 20:22

20:22 When they began to shout and praise, the Lord suddenly attacked⁷ the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir⁸ who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.

2 Chronicles 20:26

20:26 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berachah, where⁹ they praised the Lord. So that place is called the Valley of Berachah¹⁰ to this very day.

2 Chronicles 21:19

21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death.¹¹ His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors.¹²

2 Chronicles 22:7

22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram.¹³ When Ahaziah¹⁴ arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned¹⁵ to wipe out Ahab’s family.¹⁶

2 Chronicles 26:16

26:16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him.¹⁷ He disobeyed¹⁸ the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

2 Chronicles 32:11

32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power¹⁹ of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst!²⁰

¹tn Heb “because this turn of events was from God.”

²tn Heb “so that the Lord might bring to pass his word which he spoke.”

³tn Heb “for his thing is from me.”

⁴tn Heb “and they heard the words of the Lord and returned from going against Jeroboam.”

⁵tn Heb “for the judgment of the Lord.”

⁶tc Heb “and to conduct a case [or “for controversy”], and they returned [to] Jerusalem.” Some emend וַיָּשֻׁבוּ (vayyashuvu, “and they returned”) to וַיֵּשְׁבוּ (vayyeshÿvu, “and they lived [in]”). The present translation assumes an emendation to יֹשְׁבֵי (yoshÿvey, “residents of”).

⁷tn Heb “set ambushers against.” This is probably idiomatic here for launching a surprise attack.

⁸tn Heb “the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir.”

⁹tn Heb “for there.”

¹⁰sn The name Berachah, which means “blessing” in Hebrew, is derived from the verbal root “to praise [or “to bless”],” which appears earlier in the verse.

¹¹tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”

¹²tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”

¹³tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”

¹⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵tn Heb “anointed.”

¹⁶tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”

¹⁵tn Heb “his heart was high [i.e., proud] to destroy.”

¹⁶tn Or “was unfaithful to.”

¹⁷tn Heb “hand.”

¹⁸tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’