2 Chronicles 7:20

7:20 then I will remove you ¹  from my land I have given you, ²  I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ³  and I will make you ⁴  an object of mockery and ridicule ⁵  among all the nations.

2 Chronicles 13:4

13:4 Abijah ascended Mount Zemaraim, in the Ephraimite hill country, and said: “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel!

2 Chronicles 26:19

26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving ⁶  at the priests, a skin disease ⁷  appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.

2 Chronicles 28:19

28:19 The Lord humiliated ⁸  Judah because of King Ahaz of Israel, ⁹  for he encouraged Judah to sin and was very ¹⁰  unfaithful to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 36:14

36:14 All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. ¹¹  They defiled the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 24:20

24:20 God’s Spirit energized ¹²  Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’”

2 Chronicles 33:8

33:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, ¹³  provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.”

2 Chronicles 35:15

35:15 The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their posts, as prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet. ¹⁴  The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them.

[7:20]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “them.” See the note on “you” earlier in this verse.

[7:20]  ³ 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]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ 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.

[26:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “angry.”

[26:19]  ⁷ tn Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s disease). See 2 Kgs 5:1.

[28:19]  ¹¹ tn Or “subdued.”

[28:19]  ¹² sn That is, “of Judah.” Frequently in 2 Chronicles “Israel” is substituted for “Judah.”

[28:19]  ¹³ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verbal form to emphasize the degree of Ahaz’s unfaithfulness.

[36:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[24:20]  ²¹ tn Heb “clothed.”

[33:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I established for their fathers.”

[35:15]  ³¹ tn Or “seer.”