2 Chronicles 12:5

12:5 Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’”¹

2 Chronicles 16:4

16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel.² They conquered³ Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim,⁴ and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 18:30-31

18:30 Now the king of Syria had ordered his chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high ranking officers;⁵ fight only the king of Israel!” 18:31 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The Lord helped him; God lured them away from him.

2 Chronicles 23:1

23:1 In the seventh year Jehoiada made a bold move. He made a pact⁶ with the officers of the units of hundreds: Azariah son of Jehoram, Ishmael son of Jehochanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.

2 Chronicles 23:13-14

23:13 Then she saw⁷ the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters stood beside the king and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets, and the musicians with various instruments were leading the celebration. Athaliah tore her clothes and yelled, “Treason! Treason!”⁸ 23:14 Jehoiada the priest sent out the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, and ordered them, “Bring her outside the temple to the guards.⁹ Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple.¹⁰

2 Chronicles 23:20

23:20 He summoned¹¹ the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of land, and he then led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.

2 Chronicles 24:23

24:23 At the beginning¹² of the year the Syrian army attacked¹³ Joash¹⁴ and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus.

2 Chronicles 26:11

26:11 Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official.

2 Chronicles 30:6

30:6 Messengers¹⁵ delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.

This royal edict read:¹⁶ “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return¹⁷ to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.¹⁸

2 Chronicles 30:24

30:24 King Hezekiah of Judah supplied 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep¹⁹ for the assembly, while the officials supplied them²⁰ with 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. Many priests consecrated themselves.

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger²¹ and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib²² returned home humiliated.²³ When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons²⁴ struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 33:14

33:14 After this Manasseh²⁵ built up the outer wall of the City of David²⁶ on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

2 Chronicles 34:8

34:8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple.²⁷ He sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city official, and Joah son of Joahaz the secretary to repair the temple of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 35:8

35:8 His officials also willingly contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of God’s temple, supplied 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 cattle.

¹tn Heb “also I have rejected you into the hand of Shishak.”

²tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

³tn Heb “They struck down.”

⁴sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

³tn Heb “small or great.”

⁴tn Or “covenant.”

⁵tn Heb “and she saw, and behold.”

⁶tn Or “Conspiracy! Conspiracy!”

⁶tn Heb “ranks.”

⁷tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Do not put her to death in the house of the Lord.’”

⁷tn Heb “took.”

⁸tn Heb “turning.”

⁹tn Heb “went up against.”

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

⁹tn Heb “the runners.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”

¹¹tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

¹²tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”

¹⁰tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (ts’on, translated “sheep” twice in this verse) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.

¹¹tn Heb “the assembly.” The pronoun “them” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

¹¹tn Or “an angel.”

¹²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

¹²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

¹³tn Heb “to purify the land and the house.”