2 Chronicles 8:6

8:6 and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, ¹  and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. ²  He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, ³  Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 10:6

10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ⁵  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ⁶  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

2 Chronicles 28:23

28:23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. ⁷  He reasoned, ⁸  “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 29:34

29:34 But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals, ⁹  so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.) ¹⁰ 

[8:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name is unexpected in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

[8:6]  ² tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”

[8:6]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

[10:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “stood before.”

[10:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “saying.”

[28:23]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “said.”

[29:34]  ¹³ tn Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”

[29:34]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”