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 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer, ⁶  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, ⁷  who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ⁸  That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 12:5

12:5 Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.’” ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 12:7

12:7 When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah: ¹⁰  “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will deliver them soon. ¹¹  My anger will not be unleashed against ¹²  Jerusalem through ¹³  Shishak.

2 Chronicles 14:13

14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; ¹⁴  they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah ¹⁵  carried off a huge amount of plunder.

2 Chronicles 20:25

20:25 Jehoshaphat and his men ¹⁶  went to gather the plunder; they found a huge amount of supplies, clothing ¹⁷  and valuable items. They carried away everything they could. ¹⁸  There was so much plunder, it took them three days to haul it off. ¹⁹ 

2 Chronicles 21:3

21:3 Their father gave them many presents, including silver, gold, and other precious items, along with fortified cities in Judah. But he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

2 Chronicles 23:3

23:3 and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada ²⁰  said to them, “The king’s son will rule, just as the Lord promised David’s descendants.

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 24:20

24:20 God’s Spirit energized ²¹  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 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. ²² 

2 Chronicles 28:13

28:13 They said to them, “Don’t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the Lord? ²³  Our guilt is already great and the Lord is very angry at Israel.” ²⁴ 

2 Chronicles 28:23

28:23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. ²⁵  He reasoned, ²⁶  “Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble.

2 Chronicles 34:4

34:4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, ²⁷  and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to 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.

[7:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they will say.”

[7:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “fathers.”

[7:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

[12:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “also I have rejected you into the hand of Shishak.”

[12:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying.”

[12:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and I will give to them soon deliverance.”

[12:7]  ¹⁸ tn Or “gush forth upon.”

[12:7]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[14:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”

[14:13]  ²² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:25]  ²⁶ tn Or “army.”

[20:25]  ²⁷ tc The MT reads פְגָרִים (fÿgarim, “corpses”), but this seems odd among a list of plunder. A few medieval Hebrew mss and the Vulgate read בְגָדִים (vÿgadim, “clothing”), which fits the context much better.

[20:25]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and they snatched away for themselves so that there was no carrying away.”

[20:25]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and they were three days looting the plunder for it was great.”

[23:3]  ³¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada the priest, cf. v. 8) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:20]  ³⁶ tn Heb “clothed.”

[28:9]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

[28:13]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “for to the guilt of the Lord upon us you are saying to add to our sins and our guilty deeds.”

[28:13]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “for great is [the] guilt to us and rage of anger is upon Israel.”

[28:23]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “the gods of Damascus, the ones who had defeated him.” The words “he thought” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The perspective is that of Ahaz, not the narrator! Another option is that “the kings” has been accidentally omitted after “gods of.” See v. 23b.

[28:23]  ⁵² tn Heb “said.”

[34:4]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”