2 Chronicles 6:38

6:38 When they return to you with all their heart and being ¹  in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, ² 

2 Chronicles 8:6

8:6 and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, ³  and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. ⁴  He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, ⁵  Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 34:31

34:31 The king stood by his pillar ⁷  and renewed ⁸  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ⁹  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ¹⁰  by carrying out the terms ¹¹  of this covenant recorded on this scroll.

¹ tn Or “soul.”

² tn Heb “your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your honor”).

³ tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name is unexpected in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

⁴ tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”

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

⁶ tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

⁵ tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”

⁶ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”

⁷ tn Heb “walk after.”

⁸ tn Or “soul.”

⁹ tn Heb “words.”