2 Chronicles 6:36

6:36 “The time will come when your people ¹  will sin against you (for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.

2 Chronicles 7:21

7:21 As for this temple, which was once majestic, ²  everyone who passes by it will be shocked and say, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’

2 Chronicles 18:19

18:19 The Lord said, ‘Who will deceive King Ahab of Israel, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die there?’ One said this and another that.

2 Chronicles 20:31

Jehoshaphat’s Reign Ends

20:31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. ³  His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

2 Chronicles 20:37

20:37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, “Because ⁴  you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 21:19

21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. ⁶  His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 25:19

25:19 You defeated Edom ⁸  and it has gone to your head. ⁹  Gloat over your success, ¹⁰  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ¹¹ 

2 Chronicles 30:20

30:20 The Lord responded favorably ¹²  to Hezekiah and forgave ¹³  the people.

2 Chronicles 32:4

32:4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. ¹⁴  They reasoned, ¹⁵  “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

2 Chronicles 32:18

32:18 They called out loudly in the Judahite dialect to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, trying to scare and terrify them so they could seize the city.

¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “and this house which was high/elevated.” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”

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⁴ tn Heb “when.”

⁵ tn Heb “to go to Tarshish.”

⁵ tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”

⁶ tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”

⁶ tn Heb “you say [to yourself], ‘look, you have defeated Edom.’”

⁷ tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”

⁸ tn Heb “to glorify.”

⁹ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

⁷ tn Heb “listened.”

⁸ tn Heb “healed.”

⁸ tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’arets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.

⁹ tn Heb “land, saying.”