2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram ¹  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ²  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ³  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 24:11

24:11 Whenever the Levites brought the chest to the royal accountant and they saw there was a lot of silver, the royal scribe and the accountant of the high priest emptied the chest and then took it back to its place. They went through this routine every day and collected a large amount of silver.

2 Chronicles 25:24

25:24 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom, the riches in the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 28:9

28:9 Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: “Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 31:1

31:1 When all this was over, the Israelites ⁶  who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished ⁷  all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. ⁸  Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 34:9

34:9 They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the silver that had been brought to God’s temple. The Levites who guarded the door had collected it from the people of ¹⁰  Manasseh and Ephraim and from all who were left in Israel, as well as from all the people of ¹¹  Judah and Benjamin and the residents of ¹²  Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:22

34:22 So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king ¹³  went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, ¹⁴  the supervisor of the wardrobe. ¹⁵  (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh ¹⁶  district.) They stated their business, ¹⁷ 

2 Chronicles 34:30

34:30 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the Levites. All the people were there, from the oldest to the youngest. He read aloud all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

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¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

³ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

⁴ tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

⁵ tn Heb “and you killed them with anger [that] reaches as far as heaven.”

⁶ tn Heb “all Israel.”

⁷ tn Or “tore down.”

⁸ tn Heb “the high places and the altars from all Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and in Manasseh until finished.”

⁹ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession to their cities.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “from Manasseh and Ephraim.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Manasseh and Ephraim” here by metonymy for the people of Manasseh and Ephraim.

¹¹ tn Heb “all Judah and Benjamin.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the names “Judah and Benjamin” here by metonymy for the people of Judah and Benjamin.

¹² tc The Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the reading, “and the residents of.” The marginal reading (Qere) is “and they returned.”

¹³ tn Heb “and those who [were sent by] the king.”

¹⁴ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 22:14 has the variant spelling “son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

¹⁶ tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

¹⁷ tn Heb “and they spoke to her like this.”