2 Chronicles 2:2

2:2 (2:1) Solomon had ¹  70,000 common laborers ²  and 80,000 stonecutters ³  in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 4:4

4:4 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ⁶  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ⁷  and repudiate their sinful practices, ⁸  then I will respond ⁹  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer, ¹¹  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, ¹²  who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ¹³  That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 9:8

9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ¹⁴  you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! ¹⁵  Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, ¹⁶  he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” ¹⁷ 

2 Chronicles 14:14

14:14 They defeated all the cities surrounding Gerar, for the Lord caused them to panic. ¹⁸  The men of Judah ¹⁹  looted all the cities, for they contained a huge amount of goods. ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 30:18

30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. ²¹  For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive ²² 

2 Chronicles 36:17

36:17 He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered ²³  their young men in their temple. ²⁴  He did not spare ²⁵  young men or women, or even the old and aging. God ²⁶  handed everyone over to him.

[2:2]  ¹ tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[2:2]  ² tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

[2:2]  ³ tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

[2:2]  ⁴ tc The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek mss there read “thirty-six hundred” in agreement with 2 Chr 2:2, 18.

[4:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”

[7:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[7:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

[7:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  ¹² tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  ¹³ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

[7:22]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they will say.”

[7:22]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “fathers.”

[7:22]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

[9:8]  ¹⁷ tn Or “delighted in.”

[9:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”

[9:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”

[9:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[14:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “for the terror of the Lord was upon them.”

[14:14]  ²² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:14]  ²³ tn Heb “for great plunder was in them.”

[30:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “without what is written.”

[30:18]  ²⁶ tn Heb “make atonement for.”

[36:17]  ²⁹ tn Heb “killed with the sword.”

[36:17]  ³⁰ tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”

[36:17]  ³¹ tn Or “show compassion to.”

[36:17]  ³² tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.