2 Chronicles 6:5

6:5 He told David, ¹  ‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ²  Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:34

6:34 “When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, ³  and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor, ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer, ⁵  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, ⁶  who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ⁷  That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 15:2

15:2 He met ⁸  Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. ⁹  If you seek him, he will respond to you, ¹⁰  but if you reject him, he will reject you.

2 Chronicles 16:1

16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah, and he established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ¹¹ 

2 Chronicles 18:33

18:33 Now an archer shot an arrow at random ¹²  and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ¹³  ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, ¹⁴  for I am wounded.”

2 Chronicles 19:2

19:2 the prophet ¹⁵  Jehu son of Hanani confronted him; ¹⁶  he said to King Jehoshaphat, “Is it right to help the wicked and be an ally of those who oppose the Lord? ¹⁷  Because you have done this the Lord is angry with you! ¹⁸ 

2 Chronicles 20:17

20:17 You will not fight in this battle. Take your positions, stand, and watch the Lord deliver you, ¹⁹  O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ²⁰  Tomorrow march out toward them; the Lord is with you!’”

2 Chronicles 22:7

22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. ²¹  When Ahaziah ²²  arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned ²³  to wipe out Ahab’s family. ²⁴ 

2 Chronicles 23:8

23:8 The Levites and all the men of Judah ²⁵  did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath. Jehoiada the priest did not release his divisions from their duties.

2 Chronicles 24:5

24:5 He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.

2 Chronicles 25:5

25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah ²⁶  and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age ²⁷  equipped with spears and shields. ²⁸ 

2 Chronicles 26:11

26:11 Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official.

2 Chronicles 26:15

26:15 In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful. ²⁹ 

2 Chronicles 26:18

26:18 They confronted ³⁰  King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not proper for you, Uzziah, to offer incense to the Lord. That is the responsibility of the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to offer incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have disobeyed ³¹  and the Lord God will not honor you!”

2 Chronicles 26:20

26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at ³²  him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king ³³  himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.

2 Chronicles 28:9

28:9 Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: “Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice. ³⁴ 

2 Chronicles 35:20

Josiah’s Reign Ends

35:20 After Josiah had done all this for the temple, ³⁵  King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. ³⁶  Josiah marched out to oppose him.

[6:5]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[6:5]  ² tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.” Here “name” is used by metonymy for the Lord himself, and thus the expression “to be there” refers to his taking up residence there (hence the translation, “a temple in which to live”). In this case the temple is referred to as a “house” where the Lord himself can reside.

[6:34]  ³ tn Heb “When your people go out for battle against their enemies in the way which you send them.”

[6:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “toward this city which you have chosen and the house which I built for your name.”

[7:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they will say.”

[7:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “fathers.”

[7:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

[15:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “went out before.”

[15:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “when you are with him.”

[15:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”

[16:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

[18:33]  ¹¹ tn Heb “now a man drew a bow in his innocence” (i.e., with no specific target in mind, or at least without realizing his target was the king of Israel).

[18:33]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:33]  ¹³ tn Heb “camp.”

[19:2]  ¹³ tn Or “seer.”

[19:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “went out to his face.”

[19:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and love those who hate the Lord?”

[19:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and because of this upon you is anger from before the Lord.”

[20:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the deliverance of the Lord with you.”

[20:17]  ¹⁶ tn Or perhaps “don’t get discouraged.”

[22:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”

[22:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:7]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “anointed.”

[22:7]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”

[23:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy for the men of Judah.

[25:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy here for the people of Judah.

[25:5]  ²² tn Heb “young men going out to war.”

[25:5]  ²³ tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”

[26:15]  ²³ tn Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.”

[26:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “stood against.”

[26:18]  ²⁶ tn Or “been unfaithful.”

[26:20]  ²⁷ tn Heb “turned toward.”

[26:20]  ²⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:9]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

[35:20]  ³¹ tn Heb “After all this, [by] which Josiah prepared the temple.”

[35:20]  ³² tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.