2 Chronicles 6:3

6:3 Then the king turned around ¹  and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there. ² 

2 Chronicles 29:24

29:24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed ³  that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.

2 Chronicles 30:25

30:25 The celebration included ⁴  the entire assembly of Judah, the priests, the Levites, the entire assembly of those who came from Israel, the resident foreigners who came from the land of Israel, and the residents of Judah.

2 Chronicles 31:5

31:5 When the edict was issued, ⁵  the Israelites freely contributed ⁶  the initial portion of their grain, wine, olive oil, honey, and all the produce of their fields. They brought a tenth of everything, which added up to a huge amount.

2 Chronicles 31:21

31:21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 32:13

32:13 Are you not aware of what I and my predecessors ⁸  have done to all the nations of the surrounding lands? Have the gods of the surrounding lands actually been able to rescue their lands from my power? ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 34:7

34:7 he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:14

36:14 All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. ¹⁰  They defiled the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:18-19

36:18 He carried away to Babylon all the items in God’s temple, whether large or small, as well as what was in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king and his officials. 36:19 They burned down the Lord’s temple and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. ¹¹  They burned all its fortified buildings and destroyed all its valuable items.

¹ tn Heb “turned his face.”

² tn Heb “and he blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel was standing.”

³ tn Heb “said.”

⁵ tn Heb “they rejoiced.”

⁷ tn Heb “and when the word spread out.”

⁸ tn Heb “the sons of Israel multiplied.”

⁹ tn Heb “and in all the work which he began with regard to the service of the house of God and with respect to the law and with respect to the commandment, to seek his God; with all his heart he acted and he succeeded.”

¹¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 14, 15), but in this context the term does not necessarily refer to Sennacherib’s ancestors, but to his predecessors on the Assyrian throne.

¹² tn Heb “hand.”

¹³ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

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