2 Chronicles 6:26

6:26 “The time will come when ¹  the skies ²  are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ³  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ⁴  and turn away from their sin because you punish ⁵  them,

2 Chronicles 6:38

6:38 When they return to you with all their heart and being ⁶  in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor, ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 7:14

7:14 if my people, who belong to me, ⁸  humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, ⁹  and repudiate their sinful practices, ¹⁰  then I will respond ¹¹  from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. ¹² 

2 Chronicles 10:6

10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ¹³  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ¹⁴  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

2 Chronicles 10:9

10:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 11:1

11:1 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from Judah and Benjamin ¹⁶  to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

2 Chronicles 18:16

18:16 Micaiah ¹⁷  replied, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the Lord said, ‘They have no master. They should go home in peace.’”

2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram ¹⁸  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ¹⁹  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ²⁰  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ²¹ 

2 Chronicles 25:13

25:13 Now the troops Amaziah had dismissed and had not allowed to fight in the battle ²²  raided ²³  the cities of Judah from Samaria ²⁴  to Beth Horon. They killed ²⁵  3,000 people and carried off a large amount of plunder.

2 Chronicles 25:24

25:24 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom, the riches in the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 28:15

28:15 Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked. ²⁶  So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin. ²⁷  They put the ones who couldn’t walk on donkeys. ²⁸  They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, ²⁹  the city of the date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 30:8

30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn ³⁰  like your fathers! Submit ³¹  to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. ³² 

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ³³  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ³⁴  returned home humiliated. ³⁵  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ³⁶  struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 33:3

33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ³⁷  and worshiped ³⁸  them.

2 Chronicles 34:16

34:16 Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and reported, ³⁹  “Your servants are doing everything assigned to them.

2 Chronicles 34:28

34:28 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. ⁴⁰  You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place and its residents.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.

[6:26]  ¹ tn Heb “when.” In the Hebrew text vv. 26-27a actually contain one lengthy conditional sentence, which the translation has divided into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

[6:26]  ² tn Or “heavens” (also in v. 12). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[6:26]  ³ tn Heb “they.”

[6:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[6:26]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text reads “because you answer them,” as if the verb is from עָנָה (’anah, “answer”). However, this reference to a divine answer is premature, since the next verse asks for God to intervene in mercy. It is better to revocalize the consonantal text as תְעַנֵּם (tÿ’annem, “you afflict them”), a Piel verb form from the homonym עָנָה (“afflict”).

[6:38]  ⁶ tn Or “soul.”

[6:38]  ⁷ tn Heb “your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your honor”).

[7:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “over whom my name is called.” The Hebrew idiom “call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.

[7:14]  ¹² tn Heb “seek my face,” where “my face” is figurative for God’s presence and acceptance.

[7:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “and turn from their sinful ways.”

[7:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “hear.”

[7:14]  ¹⁵ sn Here the phrase heal their land means restore the damage done by the drought, locusts and plague mentioned in v. 13.

[10:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “stood before.”

[10:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “saying.”

[10:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”

[11:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he summoned the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men, accomplished in war.”

[18:16]  ³¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Micaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:6]  ³⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:6]  ³⁷ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

[22:6]  ³⁸ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

[22:6]  ³⁹ tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

[25:13]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “had sent back from going with him to the battle.”

[25:13]  ⁴² tn Heb “stripped.”

[25:13]  ⁴³ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[25:13]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “struck down.”

[28:15]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “and the men who were designated by names arose and took the captives and all their naked ones they clothed from the loot.”

[28:15]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “and poured oil on them.”

[28:15]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “and they led them on donkeys, with respect to everyone stumbling.”

[28:15]  ⁴⁹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[30:8]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).

[30:8]  ⁵² tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.

[30:8]  ⁵³ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[32:21]  ⁵⁶ tn Or “an angel.”

[32:21]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[32:21]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

[32:21]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

[33:3]  ⁶¹ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

[33:3]  ⁶² tn Or “served.”

[34:16]  ⁶⁶ tn Heb “returned still the king a word, saying.”

[34:28]  ⁷¹ tn Heb “Therefore, behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”