2 Chronicles 22:2

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two 1  years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter 2  of Omri.

2 Chronicles 24:1

Joash’s Reign

24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. 3  His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

2 Chronicles 27:1

Jotham’s Reign

27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 4  His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

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 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.

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

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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.”

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7 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”