2 Chronicles 26:17

26:17 Azariah the priest and eighty other brave priests of the Lord followed him in.

2 Chronicles 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, 1  who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

2 Chronicles 2:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

2:1 (1:18) 2  Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 3 

2 Chronicles 2:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

2:1 (1:18) 4  Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 5 

2 Chronicles 6:8

6:8 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. 6 

2 Chronicles 6:14

6:14 and prayed: 7  “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth! You maintain covenantal loyalty 8  to your servants who obey you with sincerity. 9 

Ezekiel 44:15

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok 10  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

1 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

2 sn Beginning with 2:1, the verse numbers through 2:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 2:1 ET = 1:18 HT, 2:2 ET = 2:1 HT, 2:3 ET = 2:2 HT, etc., through 2:18 ET = 2:17 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

3 tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the Lord and house for his kingship.”

4 sn Beginning with 2:1, the verse numbers through 2:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 2:1 ET = 1:18 HT, 2:2 ET = 2:1 HT, 2:3 ET = 2:2 HT, etc., through 2:18 ET = 2:17 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

5 tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the Lord and house for his kingship.”

6 tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”

7 tn Heb “said.”

8 tn Heb “one who keeps the covenant and the loyal love.”

9 tn Heb “who walk before you with all their heart.”

10 sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).