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 6:29

6:29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ²  as they acknowledge their intense pain ³  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

2 Chronicles 8:14

8:14 As his father David had decreed, Solomon ⁴  appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks, ⁵  and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates. ⁶  This was what David the man of God had ordered. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 11:4

11:4 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” ⁸  They obeyed the Lord and called off the attack against Jeroboam. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 18:5

18:5 So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” ¹⁰  They said, “Attack! God ¹¹  will hand it over to the king.”

2 Chronicles 18:9

18:9 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, dressed in their royal robes, at the threshing floor at ¹²  the entrance of the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying before them.

2 Chronicles 18:16

18:16 Micaiah ¹³  replied, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”

2 Chronicles 23:8

23:8 The Levites and all the men of Judah ¹⁴  did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath. Jehoiada the priest did not release his divisions from their duties.

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, ¹⁵  “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, ¹⁶  and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. ¹⁷  A man must be executed only for his own sin.” ¹⁸ 

2 Chronicles 25:9

25:9 Amaziah asked the prophet: ¹⁹  “But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?” The prophet ²⁰  replied, “The Lord is capable of giving you more than that.”

2 Chronicles 31:2

The People Contribute to the Temple

31:2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks ²¹  – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary. ²² 

2 Chronicles 34:30

34:30 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

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² tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

³ tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “and the Levites, according to their posts, to praise and to serve opposite the priests according to the matter of a day in its day.”

⁵ tn Heb “and the gatekeepers by their divisions for a gate and a gate.”

⁶ tn Heb “for so [was] the command of David the man of God.”

⁴ tn Heb “for his thing is from me.”

⁵ tn Heb “and they heard the words of the Lord and returned from going against Jeroboam.”

⁵ tn Heb “Should we go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”

⁶ tn Though Jehoshaphat had requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, yÿhvah, “Yahweh”), the Israelite prophets stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title הָאֱלֹהִים (ha’elohim, “the God”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the 400 are genuine prophets of the Lord.

⁶ tn Heb “at,” which in this case probably means “near.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the men of Judah.

⁹ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “on account of sons.”

¹¹ tn Heb “on account of fathers.”

¹² sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.

¹⁰ tn Heb “said to the man of God.”

¹¹ tn Heb “man of God.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, each in accordance with his service for the priests and for the Levites.”

¹² tn Heb “in the gates of the encampments of the Lord.”