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 7:13

7:13 When ³  I close up the sky ⁴  so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, ⁵  or send a plague among my people,

2 Chronicles 9:14

9:14 besides what he collected from the merchants ⁶  and traders. All the Arabian kings and the governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9:23

9:23 All the kings of the earth wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 14:6

14:6 He built fortified cities throughout Judah, for the land was at rest and there was no war during those years; the Lord gave him peace.

2 Chronicles 19:3

19:3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; ⁸  you removed ⁹  the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord.” ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 20:7

20:7 Our God, you drove out ¹¹  the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession ¹²  to the descendants of your friend ¹³  Abraham.

2 Chronicles 36:21

36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. ¹⁴  The land experienced ¹⁵  its sabbatical years; ¹⁶  it remained desolate for seventy years, ¹⁷  as prophesied. ¹⁸ 

[1:9]  ¹ tn Heb “you word.”

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

[7:13]  ³ tn Or “if.”

[7:13]  ⁴ tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[7:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “the land,” which stands here by metonymy for the vegetation growing in it.

[9:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “traveling men.”

[9:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “and all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”

[19:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “nevertheless good things are found with you.”

[19:3]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and you set your heart to seek the Lord.”

[20:7]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹² tn Heb “permanently.”

[20:7]  ¹³ tn Or perhaps “your covenantal partner.” See Isa 41:8.

[36:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

[36:21]  ¹⁴ tn Or “accepted.”

[36:21]  ¹⁵ sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile.

[36:21]  ¹⁶ sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.

[36:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”