2 Chronicles 21:2

Jehoram’s Reign

21:2 His brothers, Jehoshaphat’s sons, were Azariah, Jechiel, Zechariah, Azariahu, Michael, and Shephatiah. All of these were sons of King Jehoshaphat of Israel. 1 

2 Chronicles 21:4

21:4 Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful. 2  Then he killed all his brothers, 3  as well as some of the officials of Israel.

2 Chronicles 28:8

28:8 The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it 4  back to Samaria. 5 

2 Chronicles 28:11

28:11 Now listen to me! Send back those you have seized from your brothers, for the Lord is very angry at you!” 6 

2 Chronicles 30:7

30:7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the Lord God of their ancestors, 7  provoking him to destroy them, 8  as you can see.

1 sn A number of times in 2 Chronicles “Israel” is used instead of the more specific “Judah”; see 2 Chr 12:6; 23:2). In the interest of consistency some translations (e.g., NAB, NRSV) substitute “Judah” for “Israel” here.

2 tn Heb “and Jehoram arose over the kingdom of his father and strengthened himself.”

3 tn Heb “and he killed all his brothers with the sword.”

4 tn Heb “the loot.” The pronoun (“it”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.

5 map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

6 tn Heb “for the rage of the anger of the Lord is upon you.”

7 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 19, 22).

8 tn Heb “and he made them a devastation” (or, perhaps, “an object of horror”).