2 Chronicles 8:10

8:10 These men worked for Solomon as supervisors; there were a total of 250 of them who were in charge of the people.¹

2 Chronicles 13:1

Abijah’s Reign

13:1 In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.

2 Chronicles 24:17

24:17 After Jehoiada died, the officials of Judah visited the king and declared their loyalty to him.² The king listened to their advice.³

2 Chronicles 35:23

35:23 Archers shot King Josiah; the king ordered his servants, “Take me out of this chariot,⁴ for I am seriously wounded.”

2 Chronicles 9:8-9

9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored⁵ you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf!⁶ Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them,⁷ he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.”⁸ 9:9 She gave the king 120 talents⁹ of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched.¹⁰

2 Chronicles 4:16

4:16 and the pots, shovels, and meat forks.¹¹ All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple¹² were made from polished bronze.

2 Chronicles 12:2

12:2 Because they were unfaithful to the Lord, in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 23:9

23:9 Jehoiada the priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and shields¹³ that were kept in God’s temple.

2 Chronicles 28:21

28:21 Ahaz gathered riches¹⁴ from the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.

2 Chronicles 33:11

33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose,¹⁵ bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 34:18

34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

2 Chronicles 4:11

4:11 Huram Abi¹⁶ made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon.¹⁷

2 Chronicles 9:21

9:21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships¹⁸ manned by Huram’s men¹⁹ that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet²⁰ came into port with cargoes of²¹ gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.²²

2 Chronicles 24:23

24:23 At the beginning²³ of the year the Syrian army attacked²⁴ Joash²⁵ and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus.

2 Chronicles 25:16

25:16 While he was speaking, Amaziah²⁶ said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!”²⁷ So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided²⁸ to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”

2 Chronicles 26:13

26:13 They commanded an army of 307,500 skilled and able warriors who were ready to defend²⁹ the king against his enemies.

¹tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who belonged to the king, Solomon, 250, the ones ruling over the people.”

²tn Heb “came and bowed down to the king.”

³tn Heb “to them.”

³tn Heb “carry me away.”

⁴tn Or “delighted in.”

⁵tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”

⁶tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”

⁷tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

⁵tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 8,076 lbs. (3,672 kg).

⁶tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

⁶tc Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45.

⁷tn Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the Lord.”

⁷tn The Hebrew text lists two different types of shields here. Most translations render “the large and small shields” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV; NEB “King David’s spears, shields, and bucklers”).

⁸tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).

⁹tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”

¹⁰tn Heb “Huram,” but here this refers to Huram Abi (2 Chr 2:13). The complete name has been used in the translation to avoid possible confusion with King Huram of Tyre.

¹¹tn Heb “Huram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of God.”

¹¹tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

¹²tn Heb “servants.”

¹³tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

¹⁴tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”

¹⁵tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”

¹²tn Heb “turning.”

¹³tn Heb “went up against.”

¹⁴tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴tn Heb “Stop yourself! Why should they strike you down?”

¹⁵tn The verb יָעַץ (ya’ats, “has decided”) is from the same root as יוֹעֵץ (yo’ets, “counselor”) in v. 16 and עֵצָה (’etsah, “advice”) later in v. 16. The wordplay highlights the appropriate nature of the divine punishment. Amaziah rejected the counsel of God’s prophet; now he would be the victim of God’s “counsel.”

¹⁴tn Heb “help.”