2 Chronicles 6:26
Context6:26 “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
Context6:38 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
Context7:14 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
Context10:6 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
Context10:9 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
Context11:1 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
Context18:16 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
Context22:6 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
Context25:13 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
Context25:24 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
Context28:15 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
Context30:8 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
Context32:21 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
Context33:3 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
Context34:16 Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and reported, 39 “Your servants are doing everything assigned to them.
2 Chronicles 34:28
Context34:28 ‘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] 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] 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] 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.”
[10:9] 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
[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] 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] 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.
[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.”