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A Handbook on 1-2 Chronicles, Volumes 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Handbook on 1-2 Chronicles, Volumes 1 & 2 is part of the UBS Handbook Series. This is a series of “Helps for Translators” that present each book of the Bible from the unique perspective of Bible translators. The authors of this Handbook provide a brief historical background to the two books and the world that the books represent. They offer an outline of 1-2 Chronicles that views them as a...

this reason CEV translates “suddenly spoke to.” NCV says simply “entered,” but this translation is not recommended. The son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Je-iel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph: This long genealogical statement and its position in the sentence may present problems to translators. The order of the elements in this genealogy may have to be changed in order to be more natural in the receptor language. For example, the fact that Jahaziel was a Levite from the clan
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