2 Chronicles 9:8

9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ¹  you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! ²  Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, ³  he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 12:7

12:7 When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah: ⁵  “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will deliver them soon. ⁶  My anger will not be unleashed against ⁷  Jerusalem through ⁸  Shishak.

2 Chronicles 20:20

20:20 Early the next morning they marched out to the Desert of Tekoa. When they were ready to march, Jehoshaphat stood up and said: “Listen to me, you people of Judah ⁹  and residents of Jerusalem! Trust in the Lord your God and you will be safe! ¹⁰  Trust in the message of his prophets and you will win.”

2 Chronicles 24:11

24:11 Whenever the Levites brought the chest to the royal accountant and they saw there was a lot of silver, the royal scribe and the accountant of the high priest emptied the chest and then took it back to its place. They went through this routine every day and collected a large amount of silver.

2 Chronicles 27:5

27:5 He launched a military campaign ¹¹  against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites paid him 100 talents ¹²  of silver, 10,000 kors ¹³  of wheat, and 10,000 kors ¹⁴  of barley. The Ammonites also paid this same amount of annual tribute the next two years. ¹⁵ 

2 Chronicles 32:15

32:15 Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. So how ¹⁶  can your gods rescue ¹⁷  you from my power?’”

2 Chronicles 35:21

35:21 Necho ¹⁸  sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? ¹⁹  I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. ²⁰  God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.” ²¹ 

[9:8]  ¹ tn Or “delighted in.”

[9:8]  ² tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”

[9:8]  ³ tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”

[9:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

[12:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, saying.”

[12:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I will give to them soon deliverance.”

[12:7]  ⁷ tn Or “gush forth upon.”

[12:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

[20:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “O Judah.” The words “you people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. See the note on the word “Judah” in v. 15.

[20:20]  ¹⁰ tn There is a wordplay in the Hebrew text. The Hiphil verb form הַאֲמִינוּ (ha’aminu, “trust”) and the Niphal form תֵאָמֵנוּ (te’amenu, “you will be safe”) come from the same verbal root (אָמַן, ’aman).

[27:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “he fought with.”

[27:5]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).

[27:5]  ¹⁵ sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

[27:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “10,000 kors of wheat and 10,000 of barley.” The unit of measure of the barley is omitted in the Hebrew text, but is understood to be “kors,” the same as the measures of wheat.

[27:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “This the sons of Ammon brought to him, and in the second year and the third.”

[32:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “how much less.”

[32:15]  ¹⁸ tn The verb is plural, suggesting that the preceding אֱלֹהֵיכֶם (’elohekhem) be translated “your gods,” rather than “your God.”

[35:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Neco) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[35:21]  ²² tn Heb “What to me and to you, king of Judah?”

[35:21]  ²³ tn Heb “Not against you, you, today, but against the house of my battle.”

[35:21]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Stop yourself from [opposing] God who is with me and let him not destroy you.”