2 Chronicles 2:3

2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram ¹  of Tyre: ²  “Help me ³  as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs ⁴  for the construction of his palace. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 2:17

2:17 Solomon took a census ⁶  of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.

2 Chronicles 7:18

7:18 Then I will establish your dynasty, ⁷  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’ ⁸ 

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 27:2

27:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. ⁹  (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) ¹⁰  Yet the people were still sinning.

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 ¹¹  and worshiped ¹²  them.

¹ tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

² map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

³ tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”

⁶ tn Heb “counted.”

¹¹ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”

¹² tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”

²¹ 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.

²² tn Or “served.”