2 Chronicles 13:4

13:4 Abijah ascended Mount Zemaraim, in the Ephraimite hill country, and said: “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel!

2 Chronicles 3:1

The Building of the Temple

3:1 Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem ¹  on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan ²  the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 20:10

20:10 Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! ³  When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. ⁴  They bypassed them and did not destroy them.

2 Chronicles 20:22-23

20:22 When they began to shout and praise, the Lord suddenly attacked ⁵  the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir ⁶  who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. 20:23 The Ammonites and Moabites attacked the men from Mount Seir ⁷  and annihilated them. ⁸  When they had finished off the men ⁹  of Seir, they attacked and destroyed one another. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 10:18

10:18 King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, ¹¹  the supervisor of the work crews, out after them, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. ¹² 

2 Chronicles 33:15

33:15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 5:10

5:10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. ¹³  (It was there that ¹⁴  the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.)

2 Chronicles 19:4

Jehoshaphat Appoints Judges

19:4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. ¹⁵  He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow ¹⁶  the Lord God of their ancestors. ¹⁷ 

2 Chronicles 26:15

26:15 In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful. ¹⁸ 

2 Chronicles 15:8

15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. ¹⁹  He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. ²⁰ 

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

² tn In 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (“Aravna”; traditionally “Araunah”). The form of the name found here also occurs in 1 Chr 21:15; 18-28.

¹ tn Heb “now, look, the sons of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir.”

² tn Heb “whom you did not allow Israel to enter when they came from the land of Egypt.”

¹ tn Heb “set ambushers against.” This is probably idiomatic here for launching a surprise attack.

² tn Heb “the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir.”

¹ tn Heb “the sons of Ammon and Moab stood against the residents of Mount Seir.”

² tn Heb “to annihilate and to destroy.”

³ tn Heb “residents.”

⁴ tn Heb “they helped, each one his fellow, for destruction.” The verb עָזַר (’azar), traditionally understood as the well-attested verb meaning “to help,” is an odd fit in this context. It is possible that it is from a homonymic root, perhaps meaning to “attack.” This root is attested in Ugaritic in a nominal form meaning “young man, warrior, hero.” For a discussion of the proposed root, see HALOT 811 s.v. II עזר.

¹ sn In the parallel account in 1 Kgs 12:18 this name appears as “Adoniram.”

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¹ sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1).

² tn Heb “in Horeb where.”

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² tn Heb “and turned them back to.”

³ tn Heb “fathers.”

¹ tn Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.”

¹ tn Heb “strengthened himself.”

² tn Heb “the porch of the Lord.”