2 Chronicles 2:7

2:7 “Now send me a man who is skilled in working with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as purple, crimson, and violet colored fabrics, and who knows how to engrave. He will work with my skilled craftsmen here in Jerusalem ¹  and Judah, whom my father David provided.

2 Chronicles 5:4

5:4 When all Israel’s elders had arrived, the Levites lifted the ark.

2 Chronicles 10:13

10:13 The king responded to the people harshly. He ²  rejected the advice of the older men

2 Chronicles 11:5

Rehoboam’s Reign

11:5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem; ³  he built up these fortified cities throughout Judah:

2 Chronicles 13:9

13:9 But you banished ⁴  the Lord’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods! ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 21:18

21:18 After all this happened, the Lord afflicted him with an incurable intestinal disease. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 32:31

32:31 So when the envoys arrived from the Babylonian officials to visit him and inquire about the sign that occurred in the land, ⁷  God left him alone to test him, in order to know his true motives. ⁸ 

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

² tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The pronoun “he” has been used in the translation in place of the proper name in keeping with contemporary English style.

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴ tn In the Hebrew text this is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Did you not banish?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you did,” the force of which is reflected in the translation “But you banished.”

⁵ tn Heb “whoever comes to fill his hand with a bull of a son of cattle, and seven rams, and he is a priest to no-gods.”

⁵ tn Heb “in his intestines with an illness [for which] there was no healer.”

⁶ tn Heb “and when the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire concerning the sign which was in the land, [arrived].”

⁷ tn Heb “to know all [that was] in his heart.”