2 Chronicles 19:4

Jehoshaphat Appoints Judges

19:4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. ¹  He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow ²  the Lord God of their ancestors. ³ 

2 Chronicles 11:5

Rehoboam’s Reign

11:5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem; ⁴  he built up these fortified cities throughout Judah:

2 Chronicles 19:1

19:1 When King Jehoshaphat of Judah returned home safely to Jerusalem, ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 15:4

15:4 Because of their distress, they turned back to the Lord God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 29:10

29:10 Now I intend ⁷  to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 10:2

10:2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon. Jeroboam returned from Egypt.

2 Chronicles 34:7

34:7 he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram ⁹  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ¹⁰  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ¹¹  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ¹² 

2 Chronicles 25:24

25:24 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom, the riches in the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 26:21

26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ¹³  afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

2 Chronicles 30:6

30:6 Messengers ¹⁴  delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.

This royal edict read: ¹⁵  “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return ¹⁶  to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. ¹⁷ 

2 Chronicles 30:8

30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn ¹⁸  like your fathers! Submit ¹⁹  to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ²¹  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ²²  returned home humiliated. ²³  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ²⁴  struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 33:3

33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ²⁵  and worshiped ²⁶  them.

2 Chronicles 34:16

34:16 Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and reported, ²⁷  “Your servants are doing everything assigned to them.

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² tn Heb “and turned them back to.”

³ tn Heb “fathers.”

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¹⁰ tn Heb “and he allowed himself to be found by them.”

¹³ tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention.

¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁷ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

¹⁸ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

¹⁹ tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

¹⁹ tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.

²² tn Heb “the runners.”

²³ tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”

²⁴ tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

²⁵ tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”

²⁵ tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).

²⁶ tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.

²⁷ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

²⁸ tn Or “an angel.”

²⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³⁰ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

³¹ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

³¹ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

³² tn Or “served.”

³⁴ tn Heb “returned still the king a word, saying.”