2 Chronicles 6:38

6:38 When they return to you with all their heart and being ¹  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, ² 

2 Chronicles 7:20

7:20 then I will remove you ³  from my land I have given you, ⁴  I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ⁵  and I will make you ⁶  an object of mockery and ridicule ⁷  among all the nations.

2 Chronicles 16:9

16:9 Certainly ⁸  the Lord watches the whole earth carefully ⁹  and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. ¹⁰  You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.

2 Chronicles 20:6

20:6 He prayed: “O Lord God of our ancestors, ¹¹  you are the God who lives in heaven ¹²  and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you.

2 Chronicles 22:9

22:9 He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria. ¹³  They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned, ¹⁴  “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with his whole heart.” There was no one in Ahaziah’s family strong enough to rule in his place. ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 28:24

28:24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30:5-6

30:5 So they sent an edict ¹⁶  throughout Israel from Beer Sheba to Dan, summoning the people ¹⁷  to come and observe a Passover for the Lord God of Israel in Jerusalem, for they had not observed it on a nationwide scale as prescribed in the law. ¹⁸  30:6 Messengers ¹⁹  delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.

This royal edict read: ²⁰  “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return ²¹  to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. ²² 

2 Chronicles 31:19

31:19 As for the descendants of Aaron, the priests who lived in the outskirts of all their cities, ²³  men were assigned ²⁴  to disburse portions to every male among the priests and to every Levite listed in the genealogical records.

2 Chronicles 32:14

32:14 Who among all the gods of these nations whom my predecessors annihilated was able to rescue his people from my power? ²⁵ 

2 Chronicles 33:14

33:14 After this Manasseh ²⁶  built up the outer wall of the City of David ²⁷  on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

2 Chronicles 34:28

34:28 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. ²⁸  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.

2 Chronicles 34:31

34:31 The king stood by his pillar ²⁹  and renewed ³⁰  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ³¹  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ³²  by carrying out the terms ³³  of this covenant recorded on this scroll.

2 Chronicles 36:22

Cyrus Allows the Exiles to Go Home

36:22 In the first year of the reign of ³⁴  King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the promise he delivered through Jeremiah, ³⁵  the Lord moved ³⁶  King Cyrus of Persia to issue a written decree throughout his kingdom.

[6:38]  ¹ tn Or “soul.”

[6:38]  ² tn Heb “your name.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here, “your honor”).

[7:20]  ³ tn Heb “them.” The switch from the second to the third person pronoun is rhetorically effective, for it mirrors God’s rejection of his people – he has stopped addressing them as “you” and begun addressing them as “them.” However, the switch is awkward and confusing in English, so the translation maintains the direct address style.

[7:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.

[7:20]  ⁵ tc Instead of “I will throw away,” the parallel text in 1 Kgs 9:7 has “I will send away.” The two verbs sound very similar in Hebrew, so the discrepancy is likely due to an oral transmissional error.

[7:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “him,” which appears in context to refer to Israel (i.e., “you” in direct address). Many translations understand the direct object of the verb “make” to be the temple (NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “it”).

[7:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and I will make him [i.e., Israel] a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

[16:9]  ⁵ tn Or “for.”

[16:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”

[16:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”

[20:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 33).

[20:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “are you not God in heaven?” The rhetorical question expects the answer “yes,” resulting in the positive statement “you are the God who lives in heaven” employed in the translation.

[22:9]  ⁹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[22:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they said.”

[22:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and there was no one belonging to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for kingship.”

[30:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and they caused to stand a word to cause a voice to pass through.”

[30:5]  ¹² tn The words “summoning the people” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[30:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “because not for abundance had they done as written.”

[30:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “the runners.”

[30:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”

[30:6]  ¹⁵ tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[30:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”

[31:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the priests in the fields of the pastureland of their cities in every city and city.”

[31:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “designated by names.”

[32:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “hand.”

[33:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:14]  ²⁰ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[34:28]  ²¹ tn Heb “Therefore, behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”

[34:31]  ²³ tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”

[34:31]  ²⁴ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”

[34:31]  ²⁵ tn Heb “walk after.”

[34:31]  ²⁶ tn Or “soul.”

[34:31]  ²⁷ tn Heb “words.”

[36:22]  ²⁵ tn The words “the reign of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[36:22]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to complete the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

[36:22]  ²⁷ tn Heb “stirred the spirit of.”