2 Chronicles 2:3

2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram ¹  of Tyre: ²  “Help me ³  as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs ⁴  for the construction of his palace. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 9:12

9:12 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him. ⁶  Then she left and returned ⁷  to her homeland with her attendants.

2 Chronicles 14:13

14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; ⁸  they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah ⁹  carried off a huge amount of plunder.

2 Chronicles 18:5

18:5 So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?” ¹⁰  They said, “Attack! God ¹¹  will hand it over to the king.”

2 Chronicles 24:24

24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, ¹²  for the people of Judah ¹³  had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians ¹⁴  gave Joash what he deserved. ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 25:12

25:12 The men ¹⁶  of Judah captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them over. ¹⁷  All the captives ¹⁸  fell to their death. ¹⁹ 

2 Chronicles 29:30

29:30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms ²⁰  of David and Asaph the prophet. ²¹  So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.

2 Chronicles 33:11

33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, ²²  bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 35:14

35:14 Afterward they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were offering burnt sacrifices and fat portions until evening. The Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

[2:3]  ¹ tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

[2:3]  ² map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[2:3]  ³ tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

[2:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[2:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”

[9:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “besides what she brought to the king.”

[9:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “turned and went.”

[14:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”

[14:13]  ¹² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Should we go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”

[18:5]  ¹⁷ tn Though Jehoshaphat had requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, yÿhvah, “Yahweh”), the Israelite prophets stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title הָאֱלֹהִים (ha’elohim, “the God”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the 400 are genuine prophets of the Lord.

[24:24]  ²¹ tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”

[24:24]  ²² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ²³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ²⁴ tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”

[25:12]  ²⁶ tn Heb “sons.”

[25:12]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and threw them from the top of the cliff.”

[25:12]  ²⁸ tn Heb “all of them.”

[25:12]  ²⁹ tn Heb “smashed in pieces.”

[29:30]  ³¹ tn Heb “with the words.”

[29:30]  ³² tn Or “seer.”

[33:11]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”