2 Chronicles 6:28

6:28 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust ¹  invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, ²  or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

2 Chronicles 33:4

33:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.” ³ 

2 Chronicles 7:13

7:13 When ⁴  I close up the sky ⁵  so that it doesn’t rain, or command locusts to devour the land’s vegetation, ⁶  or send a plague among my people,

2 Chronicles 1:12

1:12 you are granted wisdom and discernment. ⁷  Furthermore I am giving you riches, wealth, and honor surpassing that of any king before or after you.” ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 6:26

6:26 “The time will come when ⁹  the skies ¹⁰  are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people ¹¹  sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, ¹²  and turn away from their sin because you punish ¹³  them,

2 Chronicles 6:29

6:29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ¹⁴  as they acknowledge their intense pain ¹⁵  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

[6:28]  ¹ tn Actually two Hebrew words appear here, both of which are usually (but not always) taken as referring to locusts. Perhaps different stages of growth or different varieties are in view, but this is uncertain. NEB has “locusts new-sloughed or fully grown”; NASB has “locust or grasshopper”; NIV has “locusts or grasshoppers”; NRSV has “locust, or caterpillar.”

[6:28]  ² tn Heb “in the land, his gates.”

[33:4]  ³ tn Heb “In Jerusalem my name will be permanently.”

[7:13]  ⁵ tn Or “if.”

[7:13]  ⁶ tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[7:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “the land,” which stands here by metonymy for the vegetation growing in it.

[1:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “wisdom and discernment are given to you.”

[1:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “which was not so for the kings who were before you, and after you there will not be so.”

[6:26]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they.”

[6:26]  ¹² tn Heb “confess [or perhaps, “praise”] your name.”

[6:26]  ¹³ 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”).

[6:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”

[6:29]  ¹² tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”