2 Chronicles 2:12

2:12 Huram also said, “Worthy of praise is the Lord God of Israel, who made the sky and the earth! He has given David a wise son who has discernment and insight and will build a temple for the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 4:13

4:13 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

2 Chronicles 5:2

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

5:2 Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders – all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families – in Jerusalem, ²  so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David ³  (that is, Zion). ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 7:20

7:20 then I will remove you ⁵  from my land I have given you, ⁶  I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ⁷  and I will make you ⁸  an object of mockery and ridicule ⁹  among all the nations.

2 Chronicles 8:11

8:11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David ¹⁰  to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”

2 Chronicles 12:9

12:9 King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

2 Chronicles 21:3

21:3 Their father gave them many presents, including silver, gold, and other precious items, along with fortified cities in Judah. But he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

2 Chronicles 21:13

21:13 but have instead followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. You encouraged the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord, just as the family of Ahab does in Israel. ¹¹  You also killed your brothers, members of your father’s family, ¹²  who were better than you.

2 Chronicles 24:24

24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, ¹³  for the people of Judah ¹⁴  had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians ¹⁵  gave Joash what he deserved. ¹⁶ 

2 Chronicles 25:4

25:4 However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, ¹⁷  “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, ¹⁸  and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. ¹⁹  A man must be executed only for his own sin.” ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 25:23

25:23 King Joash of Israel captured King Amaziah of Judah, son of Joash son of Jehoahaz, in Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem. He broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate – a distance of about six hundred feet. ²¹ 

2 Chronicles 32:4

32:4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. ²²  They reasoned, ²³  “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

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 36:4

36:4 The king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s ²⁴  brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Necho seized his brother Jehoahaz and took him to Egypt.

¹ tn Heb “who has given to David a wise son [who] knows discernment and insight, who will build a house for the Lord and house for his kingship.”

² map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

³ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁴ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David (it is Zion).”

³ tn Heb “them.” The switch from the second to the third person pronoun is rhetorically effective, for it mirrors God’s rejection of his people – he has stopped addressing them as “you” and begun addressing them as “them.” However, the switch is awkward and confusing in English, so the translation maintains the direct address style.

⁴ tn Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.

⁵ tc Instead of “I will throw away,” the parallel text in 1 Kgs 9:7 has “I will send away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.

⁶ tn Heb “him,” which appears in context to refer to Israel (i.e., “you” in direct address). Many translations understand the direct object of the verb “make” to be the temple (NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “it”).

⁷ tn Heb “and I will make him [i.e., Israel] a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

⁴ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁵ tn Heb “and you walked in the way of the kings of Israel and caused Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to commit adultery, like the house of Ahab causes to commit adultery.”

⁶ tn Heb “the house of your father.”

⁶ tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”

⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”

⁷ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

⁸ tn Heb “on account of sons.”

⁹ tn Heb “on account of fathers.”

¹⁰ sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.

⁸ tn Heb “400 cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the distance would have been about 600 feet (180 m).

⁹ tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’arets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.

¹⁰ tn Heb “land, saying.”

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