2 Chronicles 23:16

23:16 Jehoiada then drew up a covenant stipulating that he, all the people, and the king should be loyal to the Lord. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 29:10

29:10 Now I intend ²  to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger. ³ 

2 Chronicles 5:7

5:7 The priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its assigned ⁴  place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place under the wings of the cherubs.

2 Chronicles 6:11

6:11 and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with the Israelites.”

2 Chronicles 13:5

13:5 Don’t you realize that the Lord God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal agreement? ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 5:2

Solomon Moves the Ark into the Temple

5:2 Then Solomon convened Israel’s elders – all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and families – in Jerusalem, ⁶  so they could witness the transferal of the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David ⁷  (that is, Zion). ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 16:3

16:3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. ⁹  See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 23:3

23:3 and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada ¹¹  said to them, “The king’s son will rule, just as the Lord promised David’s descendants.

¹ tn Heb “and Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and [between] all the people and [between] the king, to become a people for the Lord.”

² tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”

³ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention.

³ tn The word “assigned” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁴ tn Heb “Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel has given kingship to David over Israel permanently, to him and to his sons [by] a covenant of salt?”

⁵ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁶ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁷ tn Heb “Then Solomon convened the elders of Israel, the heads of the tribes, the chiefs of the fathers belonging to the sons of Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David (it is Zion).”

⁶ tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

⁷ tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada the priest, cf. v. 8) has been specified in the translation for clarity.