2 Chronicles 15:8

15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. ¹  He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. ² 

2 Chronicles 18:23

18:23 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?”

2 Chronicles 24:20

24:20 God’s Spirit energized ³  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 30:5

30:5 So they sent an edict ⁴  throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people ⁵  to come and observe a Passover for the Lord God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire ⁷  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. ⁸  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 35:24

35:24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, put him in another chariot that he owned, and brought him to Jerusalem, ¹⁰  where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors; ¹¹  all the people of Judah and Jerusalem mourned Josiah.

2 Chronicles 36:22

Cyrus Allows the Exiles to Go Home

36:22 In the first year of the reign of ¹²  King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the promise he delivered through Jeremiah, ¹³  the Lord moved ¹⁴  King Cyrus of Persia to issue a written decree throughout his kingdom.

[15:8]  ¹ tn Heb “strengthened himself.”

[15:8]  ² tn Heb “the porch of the Lord.”

[24:20]  ³ tn Heb “clothed.”

[30:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they caused to stand a word to cause a voice to pass through.”

[30:5]  ⁶ tn The words “summoning the people” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[30:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “because not for abundance had they done as written.”

[33:6]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[35:24]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[35:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fathers.”

[36:22]  ¹¹ tn The words “the reign of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[36:22]  ¹² tn Heb “to complete the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

[36:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “stirred the spirit of.”