2 Chronicles 1:3

1:3 Solomon and the entire assembly went to the worship center ¹  in Gibeon, for the tent where they met God ²  was located there, which Moses the Lord’s servant had made in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 1:12

1:12 you are granted wisdom and discernment. ³  Furthermore I am giving you riches, wealth, and honor surpassing that of any king before or after you.” ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 9:4

9:4 the food in his banquet hall, ⁵  his servants and attendants ⁶  in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, ⁷  she was amazed. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 9:9

9:9 She gave the king 120 talents ⁹  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 12:7

12:7 When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah: ¹¹  “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will deliver them soon. ¹²  My anger will not be unleashed against ¹³  Jerusalem through ¹⁴  Shishak.

2 Chronicles 13:7

13:7 Lawless good-for-nothing men ¹⁵  gathered around him and conspired ¹⁶  against Rehoboam son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was an inexperienced young man ¹⁷  and could not resist them.

2 Chronicles 14:14

14:14 They defeated all the cities surrounding Gerar, for the Lord caused them to panic. ¹⁸  The men of Judah ¹⁹  looted all the cities, for they contained a huge amount of goods. ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 28:9

28:9 Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: “Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice. ²¹ 

[1:3]  ¹ tn Or “high place.”

[1:3]  ² tn Heb “the tent of meeting of God.”

[1:12]  ³ tn Heb “wisdom and discernment are given to you.”

[1:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “which was not so for the kings who were before you, and after you there will not be so.”

[9:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[9:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[9:4]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (’aliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (’olato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.

[9:4]  ⁸ tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

[9:9]  ⁷ tn 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).

[9:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

[12:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying.”

[12:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and I will give to them soon deliverance.”

[12:7]  ¹¹ tn Or “gush forth upon.”

[12:7]  ¹² tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[13:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “empty men, sons of wickedness.”

[13:7]  ¹² tn Heb “strengthened themselves.”

[13:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “a young man and tender of heart.”

[14:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “for the terror of the Lord was upon them.”

[14:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “for great plunder was in them.”

[28:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”