2 Chronicles 6:4

6:4 He said, “The Lord God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled ¹  what he promised ²  my father David.

2 Chronicles 6:37

6:37 When your people ³  come to their senses ⁴  in the land where they are held prisoner, they will repent and beg for your mercy in the land of their imprisonment, admitting, ‘We have sinned and gone astray ⁵ , we have done evil!’

2 Chronicles 7:18

7:18 Then I will establish your dynasty, ⁶  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’ ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 10:7

10:7 They said to him, “If you are fair to these people, grant their request, and are cordial to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.” ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 10:12

10:12 Jeroboam and all the people reported to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered when he said, “Return to me on the third day.”

2 Chronicles 10:14

10:14 and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you; ⁹  I will make them even heavier. ¹⁰  My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.” ¹¹ 

2 Chronicles 11:3

11:3 “Say this to King Rehoboam son of Solomon of Judah and to all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin,

2 Chronicles 16:2

16:2 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and sent it to King Ben Hadad of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:

2 Chronicles 18:11

18:11 All the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Attack Ramoth Gilead! You will succeed; the Lord will hand it over to the king!”

2 Chronicles 20:2

20:2 Messengers ¹²  arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, “A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea, ¹³  from the direction of Edom. ¹⁴  Look, they are in Hazezon Tamar (that is, En Gedi).”

2 Chronicles 25:17

25:17 After King Amaziah of Judah consulted with his advisers, ¹⁵  he sent this message to the king of Israel, Joash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, “Come, face me on the battlefield.” ¹⁶ 

2 Chronicles 32:6

32:6 He appointed military officers over the army ¹⁷  and assembled them in the square at the city gate. He encouraged them, ¹⁸  saying,

2 Chronicles 32:11-12

32:11 Hezekiah says, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the power ¹⁹  of the king of Assyria.” But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst! ²⁰  32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated ²¹  the Lord’s ²²  high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”

2 Chronicles 34:18

34:18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

[6:4]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text reads, “fulfilled by his hand,” but the phrase “by his hand” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[6:4]  ² tn The Hebrew text reads, “promised by his mouth,” but the phrase “by his mouth” is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[6:37]  ³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (God’s people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:37]  ⁴ tn Or “stop and reflect”; Heb “bring back to their heart.”

[6:37]  ⁵ tn Or “done wrong.”

[7:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”

[7:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”

[10:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “If today you are for good to these people and you are favorable to them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”

[10:14]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text reads, “I will make heavy your yoke,” but many medieval Hebrew mss and other ancient textual witnesses have, “my father made heavy your yoke.”

[10:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “but I will add to your yoke.”

[10:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “My father punished you with whips, but I [will punish you] with scorpions.” “Scorpions” might allude to some type of torture, but more likely it refers to a type of whip that inflicts an especially biting, painful wound.

[20:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they”; the implied referent (messengers) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ¹² tn Heb “the Sea”; in context (“from the direction of Edom”) this must refer to the Dead Sea, which has been specified in the translation for clarity (cf. NEB, NLT).

[20:2]  ¹³ tc Most Hebrew mss read “from Aram” (i.e., Syria), but this must be a corruption of “Edom,” which is the reading of the LXX and Vulgate.

[25:17]  ¹³ tn The words “with his advisers” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[25:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “let us look at each other [in the] face.” The expression refers here not to a visit but to meeting in battle. See v. 21.

[32:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he placed officers of war over the people.”

[32:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he spoke to their heart[s].”

[32:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “hand.”

[32:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’

[32:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.

[32:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.