2 Chronicles 8:14
Context8:14 As his father David had decreed, Solomon 1 appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks, 2 and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates. 3 This was what David the man of God had ordered. 4
2 Chronicles 13:11
Context13:11 They offer burnt sacrifices to the Lord every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly 5 we are observing the Lord our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.
2 Chronicles 28:9
Context28:9 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. 6
2 Chronicles 34:9
Context34:9 They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of 7 Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of 8 Judah and Benjamin and the residents of 9 Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:27
Context34:27 ‘You displayed a sensitive spirit 10 and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words concerning this place and its residents. You humbled yourself before me, tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the Lord.


[8:14] 1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[8:14] 2 tn Heb “and the Levites, according to their posts, to praise and to serve opposite the priests according to the matter of a day in its day.”
[8:14] 3 tn Heb “and the gatekeepers by their divisions for a gate and a gate.”
[8:14] 4 tn Heb “for so [was] the command of David the man of God.”
[28:9] 9 tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”
[34:9] 13 tn Heb “from Manasseh and Ephraim.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Manasseh and Ephraim” here by metonymy for the people of Manasseh and Ephraim.
[34:9] 14 tn Heb “all Judah and Benjamin.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Judah and Benjamin” here by metonymy for the people of Judah and Benjamin.
[34:9] 15 tc The Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the reading, “and the residents of.” The marginal reading (Qere) is “and they returned.”