2 Chronicles 20:31

Jehoshaphat’s Reign Ends

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. ¹  His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

2 Chronicles 21:6

21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. ²  He did evil in the sight of ³  the Lord.

2 Chronicles 21:20

21:20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. No one regretted his death; ⁴  he was buried in the City of David, ⁵  but not in the royal tombs.

2 Chronicles 26:15-16

26:15 In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous, for he received tremendous support and became powerful. ⁶ 

26:16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. ⁷  He disobeyed ⁸  the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

2 Chronicles 28:1

Ahaz’s Reign

28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁹  He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 33:3

33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ¹¹  and worshiped ¹²  them.

2 Chronicles 33:15

33:15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim’s Reign

36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹³  He did evil in the sight of ¹⁴  the Lord his God.

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² tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he went without desire.”

⁵ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁶ tn Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.”

⁷ tn Heb “his heart was high [i.e., proud] to destroy.”

⁸ tn Or “was unfaithful to.”

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¹⁰ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.”

¹¹ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

¹² tn Or “served.”

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¹⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”