2 Chronicles 2:16

2:16 we will get all the timber you need from Lebanon ¹  and bring it ²  in raft-like bundles ³  by sea to Joppa. You can then haul it on up to Jerusalem.”

2 Chronicles 6:21

6:21 Respond to the requests of your servant and your people Israel for this place. ⁴  Hear from your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably and forgive. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 6:27

6:27 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ⁶  you will then teach them the right way to live ⁷  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 10:6

10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ⁹  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ¹⁰  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

2 Chronicles 10:9-10

10:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ¹¹  10:10 The young advisers with whom Rehoboam ¹²  had grown up said to him, “Say this to these people who have said to you, ‘Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden’ ¹³  – say this to them: ‘I am a lot harsher than my father! ¹⁴ 

2 Chronicles 12:5

12:5 Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’” ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 13:11

13:11 They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly ¹⁶  we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.

2 Chronicles 20:15

20:15 He said: “Pay attention, all you people of Judah, ¹⁷  residents of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat! This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Don’t be afraid and don’t panic ¹⁸  because of this huge army! For the battle is not yours, but God’s.

2 Chronicles 24:5

24:5 He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.

2 Chronicles 24:20

24:20 God’s Spirit energized ¹⁹  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 28:13

28:13 They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the Lord? ²⁰  Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” ²¹ 

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho ²²  sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? ²³  I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. ²⁴  God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” ²⁵ 

[2:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and we will cut down trees from Lebanon according to all your need.”

[2:16]  ² tn Heb “to you,” but this phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons – it is somewhat redundant.

[2:16]  ³ tn Or “on rafts.” See the note at 1 Kgs 5:9.

[6:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “listen to the requests of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

[6:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

[6:27]  ⁷ tn The present translation understands כִּי (ki) in an emphatic or asseverative sense (“Certainly”). Other translation have “indeed” (NASB), “when” (NRSV), “so” (NEB), or leave the word untranslated (NIV).

[6:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

[6:27]  ⁹ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

[10:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stood before.”

[10:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[10:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[10:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Rehoboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter upon us.”

[10:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “My little one is thicker than my father’s hips.” The referent of “my little one” is not clear. The traditional view is that it refers to the little finger (so NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). As the following statement makes clear, Rehoboam’s point is that he is more harsh and demanding than his father.

[12:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “also I have rejected you into the hand of Shishak.”

[13:11]  ²² tn Or “for.”

[20:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the people of Judah. Unlike the previous instance in v. 13 where infants, wives, and children are mentioned separately, this reference appears to include them all.

[20:15]  ²⁶ tn Or perhaps “don’t get discouraged.”

[24:20]  ²⁸ tn Heb “clothed.”

[28:13]  ³¹ tn Heb “for to the guilt of the Lord upon us you are saying to add to our sins and our guilty deeds.”

[28:13]  ³² tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”

[35:21]  ³⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

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

[35:21]  ³⁶ tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

[35:21]  ³⁷ tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”