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 6:9

6:9 But you will not build the temple; your very own son will build the temple for my honor.’ ³ 

2 Chronicles 6:23

6:23 listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 6:25

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. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 6:41

6:41 Now ascend, O Lord God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! May your priests, O Lord God, experience your deliverance! ⁶  May your loyal followers rejoice in the prosperity you give! ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 7:17

7:17 You must serve me as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 7:19

7:19 “But if you people ⁹  ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, ¹⁰  and decide to serve and worship other gods, ¹¹ 

2 Chronicles 18:29

18:29 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and then enter ¹²  the battle; but you wear your royal attire.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and they entered the battle.

2 Chronicles 19:6

19:6 He told the judges, “Be careful what you do, ¹³  for you are not judging for men, but for the Lord, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.

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 21:15

21:15 And you will get a serious, chronic intestinal disease which will cause your intestines to come out.” ¹⁷ 

2 Chronicles 25:8

25:8 Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will defeat you ¹⁸  before the enemy. God is capable of helping or defeating.” ¹⁹ 

2 Chronicles 25:19

25:19 You defeated Edom ²⁰  and it has gone to your head. ²¹  Gloat over your success, ²²  but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?” ²³ 

2 Chronicles 29:8

29:8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, ²⁴  as you can see with your own eyes.

2 Chronicles 30:7

30:7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, ²⁵  provoking him to destroy them, ²⁶  as you can see.

[1:9]  ¹ tn Heb “you word.”

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

[6:9]  ³ tn Heb “your son, the one who came out of your body, he will build the temple for my name.”

[6:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by repaying the guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

[6:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 38).

[6:41]  ⁹ tn Heb “be clothed with deliverance.”

[6:41]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and may your loyal ones rejoice in good.”

[7:17]  ¹¹ 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.”

[7:19]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew pronoun is plural, suggesting that Solomon and all Israel (or perhaps Solomon and his successors) are in view. To convey this to the English reader, the translation “you people” has been employed.

[7:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “which I placed before you.”

[7:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[18:29]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew verbal forms could be imperatives (“Disguise yourself and enter”), but this would make no sense in light of the immediately following context. The forms are better interpreted as infinitives absolute functioning as cohortatives (see IBHS 594 §35.5.2a). Some prefer to emend the forms to imperfects.

[19:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “see what you are doing.”

[20:7]  ¹⁹ 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]  ²⁰ tn Heb “permanently.”

[20:7]  ²¹ tn Or perhaps “your covenantal partner.” See Isa 41:8.

[21:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “and you [will have] a serious illness, an illness of the intestines until your intestines come out because of the illness days upon days.”

[25:8]  ²³ tn Heb “cause you to stumble.”

[25:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “to cause to stumble.”

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

[25:19]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”

[25:19]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to glorify.”

[25:19]  ²⁸ tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

[29:8]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”

[30:7]  ²⁹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).

[30:7]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).