2 Chronicles 3:8

3:8 He made the most holy place; ¹  its length was 30 feet, ²  corresponding to the width of the temple, and its width 30 feet. ³  He plated it with 600 talents ⁴  of fine gold.

2 Chronicles 26:15

26:15 In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 26:23

26:23 Uzziah passed away ⁶  and was buried near his ancestors ⁷  in a cemetery ⁸  belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.) ⁹  His son Jotham replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 29:19

29:19 We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the Lord.”

2 Chronicles 29:30

29:30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms ¹⁰  of David and Asaph the prophet. ¹¹  So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.

2 Chronicles 34:10

34:10 They handed it over to the construction foremen ¹²  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it. ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 35:25

35:25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

2 Chronicles 36:18

36:18 He carried away to Babylon all the items in God’s temple, whether large or small, as well as what was in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king and his officials.

[3:8]  ¹ tn Heb “the house of the holy place of holy places.”

[3:8]  ² tn Heb “twenty cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), this would give a length of 30 feet (9 m).

[3:8]  ³ 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]  ⁴ 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).

[26:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.”

[26:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[26:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fathers.”

[26:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a field of burial.”

[26:23]  ¹² tn Heb “for they said, ‘He had a skin disease.’”

[29:30]  ¹³ tn Heb “with the words.”

[29:30]  ¹⁴ tn Or “seer.”

[34:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “doer[s] of the work.”

[34:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and they gave it to the doers of the work who were working in the house of the Lord to restore and to repair the house.”