2 Chronicles 21:13

21:13 but have instead followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. You encouraged the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord, just as the family of Ahab does in Israel. ¹  You also killed your brothers, members of your father’s family, ²  who were better than you.

2 Chronicles 24:25

24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash ³  badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to ⁴  the son ⁵  of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus ⁶  he died and was buried in the City of David, ⁷  but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 24:27

24:27 The list of Joash’s ⁸  sons, the many prophetic oracles pertaining to him, and the account of his building project on God’s temple are included in the record of the Scroll of the Kings. ⁹  His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 28:23

28:23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. ¹⁰  He reasoned, ¹¹  “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 29:12

29:12 The following Levites prepared to carry out the king’s orders: ¹² 

From the Kohathites: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;

from the Merarites: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;

from the Gershonites: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;

2 Chronicles 29:25

29:25 King Hezekiah ¹³  stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, ¹⁴  and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

2 Chronicles 30:6

30:6 Messengers ¹⁵  delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.

This royal edict read: ¹⁶  “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return ¹⁷  to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. ¹⁸ 

2 Chronicles 33:18

33:18 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets ¹⁹  spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded ²⁰  in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 35:15

35:15 The musicians, the descendants of Asaph, manned their posts, as prescribed by David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s prophet. ²¹  The guards at the various gates did not need to leave their posts, for their fellow Levites made preparations for them.

2 Chronicles 35:18

35:18 A Passover like this had not been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had observed a Passover like the one celebrated by Josiah, the priests, the Levites, all the people of Judah and Israel who were there, and the residents of Jerusalem.

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¹ tn Heb “and you walked in the way of the kings of Israel and caused Judah and the residents of Jerusalem to commit adultery, like the house of Ahab causes to commit adultery.”

² tn Heb “the house of your father.”

³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”

⁵ tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.

⁶ tn Heb “and he died.”

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

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

⁹ tn Heb “And his sons and the abundance of the oracle[s] against him, and the founding of the house of God, look are they not written on the writing of the scroll of the kings?”

¹⁰ tn 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.

¹¹ tn Heb “said.”

¹² tn Heb “and the Levites arose.”

¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (King Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Or “seer.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “the runners.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”

¹⁷ tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

¹⁸ tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”

¹⁹ tn Or “seers.”

²⁰ tn Heb “look, they are.”

²¹ tn Or “seer.”