2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram 3 of Tyre: 4 “Help me 5 as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs 6 for the construction of his palace. 7
10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 19 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 20 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
12:9 King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
15:16 King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother 23 from her position as queen mother 24 because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
20:31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. 34 His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
21:12 Jehoram 35 received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You 36 have not followed in the footsteps 37 of your father Jehoshaphat and of 38 King Asa of Judah,
21:20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. No one regretted his death; 39 he was buried in the City of David, 40 but not in the royal tombs.
24:23 At the beginning 46 of the year the Syrian army attacked 47 Joash 48 and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus.
25:7 But a prophet 49 visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. 50
29:15 They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word 59 of the Lord.
31:3 The king contributed 65 some of what he owned for burnt sacrifices, including the morning and evening burnt sacrifices and the burnt sacrifices made on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other appointed times prescribed 66 in the law of the Lord.
35:20 After Josiah had done all this for the temple, 77 King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. 78 Josiah marched out to oppose him.
36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. 81 He did evil in the sight of 82 the Lord his God.
36:8 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 83 His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.
1 tn Heb “you word.”
2 tn Or “be firm, established.”
3 tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew
4 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
5 tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.
6 tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”
8 tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
9 tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”
10 tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).
11 tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”
12 tn The Hebrew text has simply “300,” with no unit of measure given.
13 sn This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest. See 1 Kgs 7:2.
14 tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.
15 tn Heb “servants.”
16 tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”
17 tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”
18 tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”
19 tn Heb “stood before.”
20 tn Heb “saying.”
21 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from God.”
22 tn Heb “so that the
23 tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors.
24 tn The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה (gÿvirah) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah.
25 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
26 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
27 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”
28 tn Heb “They struck down.”
29 sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.
30 tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”
31 tn Heb “and he built with them.”
32 tn Heb “the words of the prophets are [with] one mouth good for the king.”
33 tn Heb “let your words be like one of them and speak good.”
34 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
35 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
36 tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.
37 tn Heb “walked in the ways.”
38 tn Heb “in the ways of.”
39 tn Heb “and he went without desire.”
40 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
41 tn Heb “and he stationed all the people, each with his weapon in his hand, from the south shoulder of the house to the north shoulder of the house, at the altar and at the house, near the king all around.”
42 tn Heb “did not remember.”
43 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
44 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
45 tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.
46 tn Heb “turning.”
47 tn Heb “went up against.”
48 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
49 tn Heb “man of God.”
50 tn Heb “Israel, all the sons of Ephraim.”
51 tn Heb “turned toward.”
52 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
53 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
54 tn Heb “fathers.”
55 tn Heb “a field of burial.”
56 tn Heb “for they said, ‘He had a skin disease.’”
57 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
58 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
59 tn Heb “words” (plural).
60 tn Heb “said.”
61 tn Heb “with the words.”
62 tn Or “seer.”
63 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (ts’on, translated “sheep” twice in this verse) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but their is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.
64 tn Heb “the assembly.” The pronoun “them” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
65 tn Heb “the portion of the king [was].”
66 tn Heb “as written.”
67 tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”
68 tn Or “people.”
69 tn Heb “hand.”
70 tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The
71 tn Heb “and from the hand of all.”
72 tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and he led him from all around.” However, the present translation assumes an emendation to וַיָּנַח לָהֶם מִסָּבִיב (vayyanakh lahem missaviv, “and he gave rest to them from all around”). See 2 Chr 15:15 and 20:30.
73 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
74 tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”
75 tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”
76 tn Heb “Therefore, behold, I am gathering you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your tomb in peace.”
77 tn Heb “After all this, [by] which Josiah prepared the temple.”
78 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
79 tn Or “a fine.”
80 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).
81 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
82 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
83 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and his horrible deeds which he did and that which was found against him, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”
84 tn Or “made him swear an oath.”
85 tn Heb “and he stiffened his neck and strengthened his heart from returning.”
86 tn Heb “killed with the sword.”
87 tn Heb “in the house of their sanctuary.”
88 tn Or “show compassion to.”
89 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.