12:15 The events of Rehoboam’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded 1 in the Annals of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that include genealogical records.
21:12 Jehoram 2 received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You 3 have not followed in the footsteps 4 of your father Jehoshaphat and of 5 King Asa of Judah,
25:7 But a prophet 6 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. 7
32:32 The rest of the events of Hezekiah’s reign, including his faithful deeds, are recorded in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz, included in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 13
1 tn Heb “As for the events of Rehoboam, the former and the latter, are they not written?”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
3 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.
4 tn Heb “walked in the ways.”
5 tn Heb “in the ways of.”
6 tn Heb “man of God.”
7 tn Heb “Israel, all the sons of Ephraim.”
8 tn Heb “seeking,” perhaps in the sense of “consulting [an oracle from].”
9 tn Heb “the gods of the people.”
10 tn Heb “hand.”
11 tn Heb “with the words.”
12 tn Or “seer.”
13 tn Heb “and the rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and his faithful acts, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.”