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 6:5

6:5 He told David, ³  ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ⁴  Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:20

6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ⁵  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 8:18

8:18 Huram sent him ships and some of his sailors, men who were well acquainted with the sea. They sailed with Solomon’s men to Ophir, ⁷  and took from there 450 talents ⁸  of gold, which they brought back to King Solomon.

2 Chronicles 20:26

20:26 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berachah, where ⁹  they praised the Lord. So that place is called the Valley of Berachah ¹⁰  to this very day.

2 Chronicles 26:20

26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at ¹¹  him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king ¹²  himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.

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. ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 28:18

28:18 The Philistines had raided the cities of Judah in the lowlands ¹⁴  and the Negev. They captured and settled in Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its surrounding villages, Timnah and its surrounding villages, and Gimzo and its surrounding villages.

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ¹⁵  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ¹⁶  returned home humiliated. ¹⁷  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ¹⁸  struck him down with the sword.

[1:3]  ¹ tn Or “high place.”

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

[6:5]  ³ tn Heb “saying.”

[6:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.” Here “name” is used by metonymy for the Lord himself, and thus the expression “to be there” refers to his taking up residence there (hence the translation, “a temple in which to live”). In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

[6:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

[6:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[8:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “and Huram sent to him by the hand of his servants, ships, and servants [who] know the sea, and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir.”

[8:18]  ⁸ 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 30,285 lbs. (13,770 kg).

[20:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “for there.”

[20:26]  ¹⁰ sn The name Berachah, which means “blessing” in Hebrew, is derived from the verbal root “to praise [or “to bless”],” which appears earlier in the verse.

[26:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “turned toward.”

[26:20]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

[28:18]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Shephelah.”

[32:21]  ¹⁷ tn Or “an angel.”

[32:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:21]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

[32:21]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”