2 Chronicles 2:2

2:2 (2:1) Solomon had¹ 70,000 common laborers² and 80,000 stonecutters³ in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors.⁴

2 Chronicles 4:4

4:4 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.⁵

2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me,⁶ humble themselves, pray, seek to please me,⁷ and repudiate their sinful practices,⁸ then I will respond⁹ from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.¹⁰

2 Chronicles 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer,¹¹ ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors,¹² who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.¹³ That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 9:8

9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored¹⁴ you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf!¹⁵ Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them,¹⁶ he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.”¹⁷

2 Chronicles 14:14

14:14 They defeated all the cities surrounding Gerar, for the Lord caused them to panic.¹⁸ The men of Judah¹⁹ looted all the cities, for they contained a huge amount of goods.²⁰

2 Chronicles 30:18

30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law.²¹ For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive²²

2 Chronicles 36:17

36:17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered²³ their young men in their temple.²⁴ He did not spare²⁵ young men or women, or even the old and aging. God²⁶ handed everyone over to him.

¹tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

²tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

³tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

⁴tc The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek mss there read “thirty-six hundred” in agreement with 2 Chr 2:2, 18.

⁵tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”

⁹tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

¹⁰tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

¹¹tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

¹²tn Heb “hear.”

¹³sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

¹³tn Heb “and they will say.”

¹⁴tn Heb “fathers.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

¹⁷tn Or “delighted in.”

¹⁸tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”

¹⁹tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”

²⁰tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

²¹tn Heb “for the terror of the Lord was upon them.”

²²tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³tn Heb “for great plunder was in them.”

²⁵tn Heb “without what is written.”

²⁶tn Heb “make atonement for.”

²⁹tn Heb “killed with the sword.”

³⁰tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”

³¹tn Or “show compassion to.”

³²tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.