2 Chronicles 13:11

13:11 They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly ¹  we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.

2 Chronicles 23:6

23:6 No one must enter the Lord’s temple except the priests and Levites who are on duty. They may enter because they are ceremonially pure. All the others should carry out their assigned service to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 33:8

33:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, ²  provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.”

2 Chronicles 34:9

34:9 They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of ³  Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of ⁴  Judah and Benjamin and the residents of ⁵  Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:22

34:22 So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king ⁶  went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, ⁷  the supervisor of the wardrobe. ⁸  (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh ⁹  district.) They stated their business, ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 34:31

34:31 The king stood by his pillar ¹¹  and renewed ¹²  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ¹³  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ¹⁴  by carrying out the terms ¹⁵  of this covenant recorded on this scroll.

¹ tn Or “for.”

² tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I established for their fathers.”

³ tn Heb “from Manasseh and Ephraim.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Manasseh and Ephraim” here by metonymy for the people of Manasseh and Ephraim.

⁴ tn Heb “all Judah and Benjamin.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Judah and Benjamin” here by metonymy for the people of Judah and Benjamin.

⁵ tc The Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the reading, “and the residents of.” The marginal reading (Qere) is “and they returned.”

⁴ tn Heb “and those who [were sent by] the king.”

⁵ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 22:14 has the variant spelling “son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas.”

⁶ tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

⁷ tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

⁸ tn Heb “and they spoke to her like this.”

⁵ tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”

⁶ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”

⁷ tn Heb “walk after.”

⁸ tn Or “soul.”

⁹ tn Heb “words.”