2 Chronicles 1:9

1:9 Now, Lord God, may your promise ¹  to my father David be realized, ²  for you have made me king over a great nation as numerous as the dust of the earth.

2 Chronicles 6:4

6:4 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled ³  what he promised ⁴  my father David.

2 Chronicles 6:8

6:8 The Lord told my father David, ‘It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 6:15

6:15 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ⁶  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 7:17-18

7:17 You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ⁸  7:18 Then I will establish your dynasty, ⁹  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’ ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 11:17-18

11:17 They supported ¹¹  the kingdom of Judah and were loyal to ¹²  Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years; they followed the edicts of ¹³  David and Solomon for three years.

11:18 Rehoboam married ¹⁴  Mahalath the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of ¹⁵  Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.

2 Chronicles 13:5

13:5 Don’t you realize that the Lord God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal agreement? ¹⁶ 

2 Chronicles 17:3

17:3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor ¹⁷  David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. ¹⁸  He did not seek the Baals,

2 Chronicles 21:1

21:1 Jehoshaphat passed away ¹⁹  and was buried with his ancestors ²⁰  in the City of David. ²¹  His son Jehoram ²²  replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 21:20

21:20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. No one regretted his death; ²³  he was buried in the City of David, ²⁴  but not in the royal tombs.

2 Chronicles 23:9

23:9 Jehoiada the priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and shields ²⁵  that were kept in God’s temple.

2 Chronicles 28:1

Ahaz’s Reign

28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ²⁶  He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David. ²⁷ 

2 Chronicles 29:27

29:27 Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:30

29:30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms ²⁸  of David and Asaph the prophet. ²⁹  So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.

2 Chronicles 30:26

30:26 There was a great celebration in Jerusalem, unlike anything that had occurred in Jerusalem since the time of King Solomon son of David of Israel. ³⁰ 

2 Chronicles 32:30

32:30 Hezekiah dammed up the source of the waters of the Upper Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the City of David. ³¹  Hezekiah succeeded in all that he did.

[1:9]  ¹ tn Heb “you word.”

[1:9]  ² tn Or “be firm, established.”

[6:4]  ³ tn The Hebrew text reads, “fulfilled by his hand,” but the phrase “by his hand” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[6:4]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text reads, “promised by his mouth,” but the phrase “by his mouth” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[6:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “Because it was with your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was with your heart.”

[6:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

[6:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”

[7:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “As for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, by doing all which I commanded you, [and] you keep my rules and my regulations.”

[7:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”

[7:18]  ¹² tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”

[11:17]  ¹³ tn Or “strengthened.”

[11:17]  ¹⁴ tn Or “strengthened.”

[11:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they walked in the way of.”

[11:18]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “took for himself a wife.”

[11:18]  ¹⁶ tn The words “and of” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[13:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel has given kingship to David over Israel permanently, to him and to his sons [by] a covenant of salt?”

[17:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “father.”

[17:3]  ²⁰ tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”

[21:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[21:1]  ²² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 10, 12, 19).

[21:1]  ²³ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[21:1]  ²⁴ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 8:16-24 has the variant spelling “Jehoram.”

[21:20]  ²³ tn Heb “and he went without desire.”

[21:20]  ²⁴ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[23:9]  ²⁵ tn 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”).

[28:1]  ²⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[28:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.”

[29:30]  ²⁹ tn Heb “with the words.”

[29:30]  ³⁰ tn Or “seer.”

[30:26]  ³¹ tn Heb “and there was great joy in Jerusalem, for from the days of Solomon son of David, king of Israel, there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.”

[32:30]  ³³ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.