2 Chronicles 12:8

12:8 Yet they will become his subjects, so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations.” ¹ 

2 Chronicles 34:13

34:13 supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. ²  Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

2 Chronicles 35:2

35:2 He appointed the priests to fulfill their duties and encouraged them to carry out their service in the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 29:35

29:35 There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted. ³ 

2 Chronicles 35:10

35:10 Preparations were made, ⁴  and the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions as prescribed by the king.

2 Chronicles 10:4

10:4 “Your father made us work too hard! ⁵  Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 31:16

31:16 They made disbursements to all the males three years old and up who were listed in the genealogical records – to all who would enter the Lord’s temple to serve on a daily basis and fulfill their duties as assigned to their divisions. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 31:21

31:21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 35:16

35:16 So all the preparations for the Lord’s service were made that day, as the Passover was observed and the burnt sacrifices were offered on the altar of the Lord, as prescribed by King Josiah.

2 Chronicles 8:14

8:14 As his father David had decreed, Solomon ⁹  appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks, ¹⁰  and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates. ¹¹  This was what David the man of God had ordered. ¹² 

2 Chronicles 24:12

24:12 The king and Jehoiada gave it to the construction foremen ¹³  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and craftsmen to repair the Lord’s temple, as well as those skilled in working with iron and bronze to restore the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 31:2

The People Contribute to the Temple

31:2 Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and Levites to do their assigned tasks ¹⁴  – to offer burnt sacrifices and present offerings and to serve, give thanks, and offer praise in the gates of the Lord’s sanctuary. ¹⁵ 

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. ¹⁶  The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them.

[12:8]  ¹ tn Heb “so they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the lands.”

[34:13]  ² tn Heb “[were] over the laborers and were directing every doer of work for work assignment and work assignment.”

[29:35]  ³ tn Or “established.”

[35:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the service was prepared.”

[10:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “made our yoke burdensome.”

[10:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “but you, now, lighten the burdensome work of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you.” In the Hebrew text the prefixed verbal form with vav (וְנַעַבְדֶךָ, vÿna’avdekha, “and we will serve you”) following the imperative (הָקֵל, haqel, “lighten”) indicates purpose/result. The conditional sentence used in the present translation is an attempt to bring out the logical relationship between these forms.

[31:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “in addition enrolling them by males from a son of three years and upwards, to everyone who enters the house of the Lord for a matter of a day in its day, for their service by their duties according to their divisions.”

[31:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “and in all the work which he began with regard to the service of the house of God and with respect to the law and with respect to the commandment, to seek his God; with all his heart he acted and he succeeded.”

[8:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the Levites, according to their posts, to praise and to serve opposite the priests according to the matter of a day in its day.”

[8:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the gatekeepers by their divisions for a gate and a gate.”

[8:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “for so [was] the command of David the man of God.”

[24:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[31:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, each in accordance with his service for the priests and for the Levites.”

[31:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the gates of the encampments of the Lord.”

[35:15]  ¹¹ tn Or “seer.”