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 8:6

8:6 and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, ³  and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. ⁴  He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, ⁵  Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 34:31

34:31 The king stood by his pillar ⁷  and renewed ⁸  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ⁹  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ¹⁰  by carrying out the terms ¹¹  of this covenant recorded on this scroll.

[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”).

[8:6]  ³ tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name is unexpected in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”

[8:6]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

[34:31]  ⁵ tc This assumes an emendation to עַמּוּדוֹ (’ammudo), see 23:13. The MT reads “at his place.”

[34:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made” or “agreed to.”

[34:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “walk after.”

[34:31]  ⁸ tn Or “soul.”

[34:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “words.”