2 Chronicles 12:13

12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem;¹ he² was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home.³ Rehoboam’s⁴ mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.

2 Chronicles 15:2

15:2 He met⁵ Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him.⁶ If you seek him, he will respond to you,⁷ but if you reject him, he will reject you.

2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram⁸ returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians⁹ in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah¹⁰ son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded.¹¹

2 Chronicles 28:23

28:23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him.¹² He reasoned,¹³ “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 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire¹⁴ in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it.¹⁵ He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him.¹⁶

2 Chronicles 34:3

34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor¹⁷ David. In his twelfth year he began ridding¹⁸ Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.

2 Chronicles 35:24

35:24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, put him in another chariot that he owned, and brought him to Jerusalem,¹⁹ where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors;²⁰ all the people of Judah and Jerusalem mourned Josiah.

¹tn Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”

²tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

³tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

⁴tn Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “went out before.”

⁶tn Heb “when you are with him.”

⁷tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”

⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

¹⁰tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

¹¹tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

¹²tn 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.

¹³tn Heb “said.”

¹⁴tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

¹⁵tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

¹⁶tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

¹⁷tn Heb “father.”

¹⁸tn Heb “purifying.”

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²⁰tn Heb “fathers.”