2 Chronicles 20:8

20:8 They settled down in it and built in it a temple ¹  to honor you, ²  saying,

2 Chronicles 6:27

6:27 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ³  you will then teach them the right way to live ⁴  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 6:34

6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ⁶  and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 9:4

9:4 the food in his banquet hall, ⁸  his servants and attendants ⁹  in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, ¹⁰  she was amazed. ¹¹ 

[20:8]  ¹ tn Or “sanctuary.”

[20:8]  ² tn Heb “for your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “to honor you”).

[6:27]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

[6:27]  ⁵ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

[6:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[6:34]  ⁶ tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”

[9:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[9:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[9:4]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (’aliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (’olato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.

[9:4]  ¹⁰ tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”