2 Chronicles 10:16

10:16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, the people answered the king, “We have no portion in David – no share in the son of Jesse! ¹  Return to your homes, O Israel! ²  Now, look after your own dynasty, O David!” ³  So all Israel returned to their homes. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 18:33

18:33 Now an archer shot an arrow at random ⁵  and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ⁶  ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, ⁷  for I am wounded.”

2 Chronicles 20:20

20:20 Early the next morning they marched out to the Desert of Tekoa. When they were ready to march, Jehoshaphat stood up and said: “Listen to me, you people of Judah ⁸  and residents of Jerusalem! Trust in the Lord your God and you will be safe! ⁹  Trust in the message of his prophets and you will win.”

2 Chronicles 24:6

24:6 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, ¹⁰  and said to him, “Why have you not made ¹¹  the Levites collect ¹²  from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the Lord’s servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?” ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 24:20

24:20 God’s Spirit energized ¹⁴  Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’”

2 Chronicles 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire ¹⁵  in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. ¹⁶  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. ¹⁷ 

2 Chronicles 34:28

34:28 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. ¹⁸  You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.

2 Chronicles 34:31

34:31 The king stood by his pillar ¹⁹  and renewed ²⁰  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ²¹  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ²²  by carrying out the terms ²³  of this covenant recorded on this scroll.

2 Chronicles 35:15

35:15 The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their posts, as prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet. ²⁴  The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them.

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho ²⁵  sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? ²⁶  I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. ²⁷  God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” ²⁸ 

[10:16]  ¹ sn The people’s point seems to be that they have no familial relationship with David that brings them any benefits or places upon them any obligations. They are being treated like outsiders.

[10:16]  ² tn Heb “each one to your tents, Israel.” The word “return” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[10:16]  ³ tn Heb “Now see your house, David.”

[10:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “went to their tents.”

[18:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).

[18:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “camp.”

[20:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “O Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “Judah” in v. 15.

[20:20]  ¹⁰ tn There is a wordplay in the Hebrew text. The Hiphil verb form הַאֲמִינוּ (ha’aminu, “trust”) and the Niphal form תֵאָמֵנוּ (te’amenu, “you will be safe”) come from the same verbal root (אָמַן, ’aman).

[24:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “Jehoiada the head”; the word “priest” not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

[24:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “sought.”

[24:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “bring.”

[24:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the tent of testimony.”

[24:20]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “clothed.”

[33:6]  ²¹ tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

[33:6]  ²² tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

[33:6]  ²³ tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[34:28]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Therefore, behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”

[34:31]  ²⁹ tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”

[34:31]  ³⁰ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”

[34:31]  ³¹ tn Heb “walk after.”

[34:31]  ³² tn Or “soul.”

[34:31]  ³³ tn Heb “words.”

[35:15]  ³³ tn Or “seer.”

[35:21]  ³⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[35:21]  ³⁸ tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

[35:21]  ³⁹ tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

[35:21]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”