2 Chronicles 21:4

21:4 Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful. 1  Then he killed all his brothers, 2  as well as some of the officials of Israel.

2 Chronicles 22:2

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two 3  years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter 4  of Omri.

2 Chronicles 36:9

Jehoiachin’s Reign

36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen 5  years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. 6  He did evil in the sight of 7  the Lord.

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

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

3 tc Heb “forty-two,” but the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 8:26 reads “twenty-two” along with some mss of the LXX and the Syriac.

4 tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.

5 tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”

6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

7 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”