2 Chronicles 2:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

2:1 (1:18) ¹  Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. ² 

2 Chronicles 6:7

6:7 Now my father David had a strong desire to build a temple to honor the Lord God of Israel. ³ 

2 Chronicles 8:1

Building Projects and Commercial Efforts

8:1 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,

2 Chronicles 15:18

15:18 He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 22:3

22:3 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty, ⁵  for his mother gave him evil advice. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 23:5

23:5 Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others ⁷  will stand in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 23:15

23:15 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. ⁸  There they executed her.

2 Chronicles 23:19

23:19 He posted guards at the gates of the Lord’s temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.

2 Chronicles 24:4

24:4 Joash was determined to repair the Lord’s temple. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 24:8

24:8 The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 24:21

24:21 They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 27:3

27:3 He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel. ¹¹ 

2 Chronicles 29:3

29:3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

2 Chronicles 29:15

29:15 They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word ¹²  of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 29:20

29:20 Early the next morning King Hezekiah assembled the city officials and went up to the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 29:35

29:35 There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted. ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 33:5

33:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

2 Chronicles 36:7

36:7 Nebuchadnezzar took some of the items in the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his palace ¹⁴  there. ¹⁵ 

¹ sn Beginning with 2:1, the verse numbers through 2:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 2:1 ET = 1:18 HT, 2:2 ET = 2:1 HT, 2:3 ET = 2:2 HT, etc., through 2:18 ET = 2:17 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

² tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the Lord and house for his kingship.”

³ tn Heb “and it was with the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he brought the holy things of his father and his holy things [into] the house of God, silver, gold, and items.”

⁷ tn Heb “and also he walked in the ways of the house of Ahab.”

⁸ tn Heb “for his mother was his adviser to do evil.”

⁹ tn Heb “all the people.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went through the entrance of the gate of the horses [into] the house of the king.” Some English versions treat the phrase “gate of the horses” as the name of the gate (“the Horse Gate”; e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

¹³ tn Heb “and it was, later, there was with the heart of Joash to repair the house of the Lord.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and the king said [it] and they made a chest and placed it in the gate of the house of the Lord outside.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.

¹⁹ tn Heb “words” (plural).

²¹ tn Or “established.”

²³ tn Or “temple.”

²⁴ tn Heb “in Babylon.” Repeating the proper name “Babylon” here would be redundant in contemporary English, so “there” has been used in the translation.