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 5:5

5:5 The priests and Levites carried the ark, the tent where God appeared to his people, ⁵  and all the holy items in the tent. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 6:21

6:21 Respond to the requests of your servant and your people Israel for this place. ⁷  Hear from your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably and forgive. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 6:29

6:29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ⁹  as they acknowledge their intense pain ¹⁰  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

2 Chronicles 10:4

10:4 “Your father made us work too hard! ¹¹  Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.” ¹² 

2 Chronicles 10:9

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’?” ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 12:10

12:10 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard ¹⁴  who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

2 Chronicles 17:9

17:9 They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the scroll of the law of the Lord. They traveled to all the cities of Judah and taught the people.

2 Chronicles 18:15

18:15 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in ¹⁵  the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”

2 Chronicles 22:4

22:4 He did evil in the sight of ¹⁶  the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they ¹⁷  gave him advice that led to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 24:16

24:16 He was buried in the City of David ¹⁸  with the kings, because he had accomplished good in Israel and for God and his temple.

2 Chronicles 24:18

24:18 They abandoned the temple of the Lord God of their ancestors, ¹⁹  and worshiped ²⁰  the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 32:1

Sennacherib Invades Judah

32:1 After these faithful deeds were accomplished, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities, intending to seize them. ²¹ 

2 Chronicles 34:16

34:16 Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and reported, ²²  “Your servants are doing everything assigned to them.

2 Chronicles 34:18

34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

[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.

[5:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”

[5:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they carried the ark of the Lord…. The priests and the Levites carried them.”

[6:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “listen to the requests of your servant and your people Israel which they are praying concerning this place.”

[6:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “hear and forgive.”

[6:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

[6:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”

[10:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “made our yoke burdensome.”

[10:4]  ¹⁸ 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.

[10:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[12:10]  ²⁵ tn Heb “runners” (also in v. 11).

[18:15]  ²⁹ tn Or “swear an oath by.”

[22:4]  ³³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[22:4]  ³⁴ tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.

[24:16]  ³⁷ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[24:18]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).

[24:18]  ⁴² tn Heb “served.”

[32:1]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “and he said to break into them for himself.”

[34:16]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “returned still the king a word, saying.”