2 Chronicles 1:10

1:10 Now give me wisdom and discernment so ¹  I can effectively lead this nation. ²  Otherwise ³  no one is able ⁴  to make judicial decisions for ⁵  this great nation of yours.” ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 6:24-25

6:24 “If your people Israel are defeated by an enemy ⁷  because they sinned against you, then if they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, ⁸  and pray for your help ⁹  before you in this temple, 6:25 then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; ¹¹  you removed ¹²  the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.” ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 20:7

20:7 Our God, you drove out ¹⁴  the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession ¹⁵  to the descendants of your friend ¹⁶  Abraham.

2 Chronicles 25:19

25:19 You defeated Edom ¹⁷  and it has gone to your head. ¹⁸  Gloat over your success, ¹⁹  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 14:11

14:11 Asa prayed ²¹  to the Lord his God: “O Lord, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. ²²  Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. ²³  O Lord our God, don’t let men prevail against you!” ²⁴ 

2 Chronicles 6:29

6:29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ²⁵  as they acknowledge their intense pain ²⁶  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

2 Chronicles 6:34

6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ²⁷  and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ²⁸ 

2 Chronicles 16:9

16:9 Certainly ²⁹  the Lord watches the whole earth carefully ³⁰  and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. ³¹  You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.

2 Chronicles 20:6

20:6 He prayed: “O Lord God of our ancestors, ³²  you are the God who lives in heaven ³³  and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you.

2 Chronicles 25:7

25:7 But a prophet ³⁴  visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. ³⁵ 

[1:10]  ¹ tn The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) following the imperative here indicates purpose/result.

[1:10]  ² tn Heb “so I may go out before this nation and come in.” The expression “go out…and come in” here means “to lead” (see HALOT 425 s.v. יצא qal.4).

[1:10]  ³ tn Heb “for.” The word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.

[1:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”

[1:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “to judge.”

[1:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “these numerous people of yours.”

[6:24]  ⁷ tn Or “are struck down before an enemy.”

[6:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[6:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “and they pray and ask for help.”

[6:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 38).

[19:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”

[19:3]  ²⁰ tn Here בָּעַר (ba’ar) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. II בער.

[19:3]  ²¹ tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek the Lord.”

[20:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “did you not drive out?” This is another rhetorical question which expects a positive response; see the note on the word “heaven” in the previous verse.

[20:7]  ²⁶ tn Heb “permanently.”

[20:7]  ²⁷ tn Or perhaps “your covenantal partner.” See Isa 41:8.

[25:19]  ³¹ tn Heb “you say [to yourself], ‘look, you have defeated Edom.’”

[25:19]  ³² tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”

[25:19]  ³³ tn Heb “to glorify.”

[25:19]  ³⁴ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

[14:11]  ³⁷ tn Heb “called out.”

[14:11]  ³⁸ tn Heb “there is not with you to help between many with regard to [the one] without strength.”

[14:11]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and in your name we have come against this multitude.”

[14:11]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “let not man retain [strength] with you.”

[6:29]  ⁴³ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

[6:29]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”

[6:34]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[6:34]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”

[16:9]  ⁵⁵ tn Or “for.”

[16:9]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”

[16:9]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”

[20:6]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 33).

[20:6]  ⁶² tn Heb “are you not God in heaven?” The rhetorical question expects the answer “yes,” resulting in the positive statement “you are the God who lives in heaven” employed in the translation.

[25:7]  ⁶⁷ tn Heb “man of God.”

[25:7]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “Israel, all the sons of Ephraim.”