2 Chronicles 5:13

5:13 The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the Lord, singing: ¹  “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple. ² 

2 Chronicles 6:20

6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ³  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 6:27

6:27 then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly ⁵  you will then teach them the right way to live ⁶  and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 6:30

6:30 then listen from your heavenly dwelling place, forgive their sin, ⁸  and act favorably toward each one based on your evaluation of their motives. ⁹  (Indeed you are the only one who can correctly evaluate the motives of all people.) ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ¹¹  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ¹²  and repudiate their sinful practices, ¹³  then I will respond ¹⁴  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 9:6

9:6 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! ¹⁶  Your wisdom surpasses what was reported to me.

2 Chronicles 10:15

10:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events ¹⁷  so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made ¹⁸  through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

2 Chronicles 11:4

11:4 ‘The Lord says this: “Do not attack and make war with your brothers. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.”’” ¹⁹  They obeyed the Lord and called off the attack against Jeroboam. ²⁰ 

2 Chronicles 15:2

15:2 He met ²¹  Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. ²²  If you seek him, he will respond to you, ²³  but if you reject him, he will reject you.

2 Chronicles 15:8

15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. ²⁴  He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. ²⁵ 

2 Chronicles 16:4

16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ²⁶  They conquered ²⁷  Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, ²⁸  and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 20:9

20:9 ‘If disaster comes on us in the form of military attack, ²⁹  judgment, plague, or famine, we will stand in front of this temple before you, for you are present in this temple. ³⁰  We will cry out to you for help in our distress, so that you will ³¹  hear and deliver us.’

2 Chronicles 20:20

20:20 Early the next morning they marched out to the Desert of Tekoa. When they were ready to march, Jehoshaphat stood up and said: “Listen to me, you people of Judah ³²  and residents of Jerusalem! Trust in the Lord your God and you will be safe! ³³  Trust in the message of his prophets and you will win.”

2 Chronicles 25:16

25:16 While he was speaking, Amaziah ³⁴  said to him, “Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!” ³⁵  So the prophet stopped, but added, “I know that the Lord has decided ³⁶  to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice.”

2 Chronicles 35:22

35:22 But Josiah did not turn back from him; ³⁷  he disguised himself for battle. He did not take seriously ³⁸  the words of Necho which he had received from God; he went to fight him in the Plain of Megiddo. ³⁹ 

[5:13]  ¹ tn Heb “like one were the trumpeters and the musicians, causing one voice to be heard, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, and while raising a voice with trumpets and with cymbals and with instruments of music, and while praising the Lord.”

[5:13]  ² tn Heb “and the house was filled with a cloud, the house of the Lord.”

[6:20]  ³ tn Heb “so your eyes might be open toward this house night and day, toward the place about which you said, ‘My name will be there.’”

[6:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[6:27]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “the good way in which they should walk.”

[6:27]  ⁷ tn Or “for an inheritance.”

[6:30]  ⁷ tn The words “their sin” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for clarification.

[6:30]  ⁸ tn Heb “and act and give to each one according to all his ways because you know his heart.” In the Hebrew text vv. 28-30a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided up for stylistic reasons.

[6:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “Indeed you know, you alone, the heart of all the sons of mankind.”

[7:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[7:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

[7:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  ¹² tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  ¹³ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

[9:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”

[10:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “because this turn of events was from God.”

[10:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “so that the Lord might bring to pass his word which he spoke.”

[11:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “for his thing is from me.”

[11:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and they heard the words of the Lord and returned from going against Jeroboam.”

[15:2]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “went out before.”

[15:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “when you are with him.”

[15:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”

[15:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “strengthened himself.”

[15:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the porch of the Lord.”

[16:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

[16:4]  ²² tn Heb “They struck down.”

[16:4]  ²³ sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

[20:9]  ²³ tn Heb “sword.”

[20:9]  ²⁴ tn Heb “for your name is in this house.” The “name” of the Lord sometimes designates the Lord himself, being indistinguishable from the proper name. In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

[20:9]  ²⁵ tn Or “so that you may.”

[20:20]  ²⁵ tn Heb “O Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “Judah” in v. 15.

[20:20]  ²⁶ tn There is a wordplay in the Hebrew text. The Hiphil verb form הַאֲמִינוּ (ha’aminu, “trust”) and the Niphal form תֵאָמֵנוּ (te’amenu, “you will be safe”) come from the same verbal root (אָמַן, ’aman).

[25:16]  ²⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:16]  ²⁸ tn Heb “Stop yourself! Why should they strike you down?”

[25:16]  ²⁹ tn The verb יָעַץ (ya’ats, “has decided”) is from the same root as יוֹעֵץ (yo’ets, “counselor”) in v. 16 and עֵצָה (’etsah, “advice”) later in v. 16. The wordplay highlights the appropriate nature of the divine punishment. Amaziah rejected the counsel of God’s prophet; now he would be the victim of God’s “counsel.”

[35:22]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and Josiah did not turn his face from him.”

[35:22]  ³⁰ tn Heb “listen to.”

[35:22]  ³¹ map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.