2 Chronicles 2:9

2:9 to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.

2 Chronicles 1:10

1:10 Now give me wisdom and discernment so 1  I can effectively lead this nation. 2  Otherwise 3  no one is able 4  to make judicial decisions for 5  this great nation of yours.” 6 

2 Chronicles 7:12

7:12 the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered 7  your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made. 8 

2 Chronicles 34:18

34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

2 Chronicles 2:7-8

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 9  and Judah, whom my father David provided. 2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum 10  trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept 11  at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants

2 Chronicles 8:11

8:11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David 12  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 9:6

9:6 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! 13  Your wisdom surpasses what was reported to me.

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho 14  sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? 15  I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. 16  God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” 17 

2 Chronicles 36:23

36:23 It read: “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord God of the heavens has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build for him a temple in Jerusalem 18  in Judah. May the Lord your God energize you who belong to his people, so you may be able to go back there!” 19 

1 tn The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) following the imperative here indicates purpose/result.

2 tn Heb “so I may go out before this nation and come in.” The expression “go out…and come in” here means “to lead” (see HALOT 425 s.v. יצא qal.4).

3 tn Heb “for.” The word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

4 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

5 tn Heb “to judge.”

6 tn Heb “these numerous people of yours.”

1 tn Heb “I have heard.”

2 tn Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the Lord designated the temple as the place for making sacrifices, and this has been clarified in the translation.

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

1 tn This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12; cf. NLT. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.

2 tn Heb “know.”

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

1 tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”

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

2 tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

3 tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

4 tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”

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 “Whoever [is] among you from all his people – may the Lord his God [be] with him so that he may go up.”