2 Chronicles 11:12
11:12 In each city there were shields and spears; he strongly fortified them.
1 Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
2 Chronicles 33:23
33:23 He did not humble himself before the
Lord as his father Manasseh had done.
2 Amon was guilty of great sin.
3
2 Chronicles 16:8
16:8 Did not the Cushites and Libyans have a huge army with chariots and a very large number of horsemen? But when you relied on the
Lord, he handed them over to you!
2 Chronicles 31:5
31:5 When the edict was issued,
4 the Israelites freely contributed
5 the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount.
2 Chronicles 32:27
32:27 Hezekiah was very wealthy and greatly respected. He made storehouses for his silver, gold, precious stones, spices, and all his other valuable possessions. 6
2 Chronicles 36:14
36:14 All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations.
7 They defiled the
Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 14:13
14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out;
8 they were shattered before the
Lord and his army. The men of Judah
9 carried off a huge amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 25:9
25:9 Amaziah asked the prophet:
10 “But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?” The prophet
11 replied, “The
Lord is capable of giving you more than that.”
2 Chronicles 33:6
33:6 He passed his sons through the fire
12 in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it.
13 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the
Lord and angered him.
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1 tn Heb “he strengthened them greatly, very much.”
2 tn Heb “as Manasseh his father had humbled himself.”
3 tn Heb “for he, Amon, multiplied guilt.”
3 tn Heb “and when the word spread out.”
4 tn Heb “the sons of Israel multiplied.”
4 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and shields and all the desirable items.” The present translation assumes an emendation of מָגִנִּים (maginnim, “shields”) to מִגְדָּנִים (migdanim, “precious items”). See v. 23.
5 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
6 tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”
7 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “said to the man of God.”
8 tn Heb “man of God.”
8 tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
9 tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.
10 tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”