2 Chronicles 25:4

25:4 However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, ¹  “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, ²  and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. ³  A man must be executed only for his own sin.” ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 29:21

29:21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. ⁵  The king ⁶  told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 31:19

31:19 As for the descendants of Aaron, the priests who lived in the outskirts of all their cities, ⁷  men were assigned ⁸  to disburse portions to every male among the priests and to every Levite listed in the genealogical records.

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ⁹  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ¹⁰  returned home humiliated. ¹¹  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ¹²  struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire ¹³  in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. ¹⁴  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 35:15

35:15 The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their posts, as prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet. ¹⁶  The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them.

[25:4]  ¹ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

[25:4]  ² tn Heb “on account of sons.”

[25:4]  ³ tn Heb “on account of fathers.”

[25:4]  ⁴ sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.

[29:21]  ⁵ sn Perhaps these terms refer metonymically to the royal court, the priests and Levites, and the people, respectively.

[29:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[31:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “the priests in the fields of the pastureland of their cities in every city and city.”

[31:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “designated by names.”

[32:21]  ¹³ tn Or “an angel.”

[32:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

[32:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

[33:6]  ¹⁷ tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

[33:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

[33:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[35:15]  ²¹ tn Or “seer.”