2 Chronicles 6:15

6:15 You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; ¹  this very day you have fulfilled what you promised. ² 

2 Chronicles 6:23

6:23 listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants’ claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve. ³ 

2 Chronicles 7:12

7:12 the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered ⁴  your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 11:18

11:18 Rehoboam married ⁶  Mahalath the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of ⁷  Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.

2 Chronicles 11:20

11:20 He later married Maacah the daughter of Absalom. She bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

2 Chronicles 13:5

13:5 Don’t you realize that the Lord God of Israel has given David and his dynasty lasting dominion over Israel by a formal agreement? ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 13:21

13:21 Abijah’s power grew; he had ⁹  fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

2 Chronicles 14:6

14:6 He built fortified cities throughout Judah, for the land was at rest and there was no war during those years; the Lord gave him peace.

2 Chronicles 17:5

17:5 The Lord made his kingdom secure; ¹⁰  all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he became very wealthy and greatly respected. ¹¹ 

2 Chronicles 18:10

18:10 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed!’”

2 Chronicles 21:6

21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. ¹²  He did evil in the sight of ¹³  the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:21

28:21 Ahaz gathered riches ¹⁴  from the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.

2 Chronicles 29:11

29:11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to serve in his presence and offer sacrifices.” ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 32:27

32:27 Hezekiah was very wealthy and greatly respected. He made storehouses for his silver, gold, precious stones, spices, and all his other valuable possessions. ¹⁶ 

2 Chronicles 33:13

33:13 When he prayed to the Lord, ¹⁷  the Lord ¹⁸  responded to him ¹⁹  and answered favorably ²⁰  his cry for mercy. The Lord ²¹  brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.

2 Chronicles 36:20

36:20 He deported to Babylon all who escaped the sword. They served him and his sons until the Persian kingdom rose to power.

[6:15]  ¹ tn Heb “[you] who kept to your servant David my father that which you spoke to him.”

[6:15]  ² tn Heb “you spoke by your mouth and by your hand you fulfilled, as this day.”

[6:23]  ³ tn Heb “and you, hear [from] heaven and act and judge your servants by repaying the guilty, to give his way on his head, and to declare the innocent to be innocent, to give to him according to his innocence.”

[7:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “I have heard.”

[7:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the Lord designated the temple as the place for making sacrifices, and this has been clarified in the translation.

[11:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “took for himself a wife.”

[11:18]  ⁸ tn The words “and of” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[13:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel has given kingship to David over Israel permanently, to him and to his sons [by] a covenant of salt?”

[13:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “lifted up for himself.”

[17:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “established the kingdom in his hand.”

[17:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he had wealth and honor in abundance.”

[21:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

[21:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[28:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).

[29:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and sacrificers.”

[32:27]  ²¹ tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and shields and all the desirable items.” The present translation assumes an emendation of מָגִנִּים (maginnim, “shields”) to מִגְדָּנִים (migdanim, “precious items”). See v. 23.

[33:13]  ²³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:13]  ²⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:13]  ²⁵ tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”

[33:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “heard.”

[33:13]  ²⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.