2 Chronicles 27:4

27:4 He built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.

2 Chronicles 27:3

27:3 He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.¹

2 Chronicles 8:1

Building Projects and Commercial Efforts

8:1 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,

2 Chronicles 8:4

8:4 He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath.

2 Chronicles 8:12

8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the temple’s porch.²

2 Chronicles 9:3

9:3 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom,³ the palace⁴ he had built,

2 Chronicles 26:2

26:2 Uzziah⁵ built up Elat and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah⁶ had passed away.⁷

2 Chronicles 8:2

8:2 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram⁸ had given him and settled Israelites there.

2 Chronicles 22:10

Athaliah is Eliminated

22:10 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line⁹ of Judah.¹⁰

2 Chronicles 8:11

8:11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David¹¹ 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 16:6

16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah.¹² He used the materials to build up¹³ Geba and Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 33:14-15

33:14 After this Manasseh¹⁴ built up the outer wall of the City of David¹⁵ on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

33:15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 33:19

33:19 The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.¹⁶

2 Chronicles 35:3

35:3 He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the Lord, “Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don’t carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel!

¹tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.

¹tn Heb “the porch.”

¹tn Heb “all the wisdom of Solomon.”

²tn Heb “house.”

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

²tn Heb “after the king”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³tn “slept with his fathers.”

¹tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 18). Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

¹tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum, “arise”) is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

²tn Heb “house of Judah.”

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

¹tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

²tn Heb “and he built with them.”

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

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

¹tn Heb “and his prayer and being entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness and the places where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – behold, they are written on the words of his seers.”