Discovery Box2 Chronicles 24:1
Context24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. 1 His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.
2 Chronicles 26:1
Context26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, 2 who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.
2 Chronicles 33:1
Context33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 3
2 Chronicles 33:1
Context33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 4
2 Chronicles 2:18
Context2:18 He designated 5 70,000 as common laborers, 6 80,000 as stonecutters 7 in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work. 8
2 Chronicles 2:1
Context2:1 (1:18) 9 Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 10
2 Chronicles 2:1
Context2:1 (1:18) 11 Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 12
2 Chronicles 3:7-9
Context3:7 He overlaid the temple’s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls.
3:8 He made the most holy place; 13 its length was 30 feet, 14 corresponding to the width of the temple, and its width 30 feet. 15 He plated it with 600 talents 16 of fine gold. 3:9 The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.
Ecclesiastes 4:13
Context4:13 A poor but wise youth is better than an old and foolish king
who no longer knows how to receive advice.
[24:1] 1 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[26:1] 2 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”
[33:1] 3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[33:1] 4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[2:18] 6 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
[2:18] 7 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
[2:18] 8 tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”
[2:1] 9 sn Beginning with 2:1, the verse numbers through 2:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 2:1 ET = 1:18 HT, 2:2 ET = 2:1 HT, 2:3 ET = 2:2 HT, etc., through 2:18 ET = 2:17 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
[2:1] 10 tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the
[2:1] 11 sn Beginning with 2:1, the verse numbers through 2:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 2:1 ET = 1:18 HT, 2:2 ET = 2:1 HT, 2:3 ET = 2:2 HT, etc., through 2:18 ET = 2:17 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
[2:1] 12 tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the
[3:8] 13 tn Heb “the house of the holy place of holy places.”
[3:8] 14 tn Heb “twenty cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), this would give a length of 30 feet (9 m).
[3:8] 15 tc Heb “twenty cubits.” Some suggest adding, “and its height twenty cubits” (see 1 Kgs 6:20). The phrase could have been omitted by homoioteleuton.
[3:8] 16 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold plating was 40,380 lbs. (18,360 kg).
