2 Chronicles 6:20

6:20 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. ¹  May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. ² 

2 Chronicles 12:13

12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; ³  he ⁴  was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. ⁵  Rehoboam’s ⁶  mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.

[6:20]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “by listening to the prayer which your servant is praying concerning this place.”

[12:13]  ³ tn Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”

[12:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

[12:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

[12:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.