2 Chronicles 24:27

24:27 The list of Joash’s¹ 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.² His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 30:9

30:9 For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and sons will be shown mercy by their captors and return to this land. The Lord your God is merciful and compassionate; he will not reject you³ if you return to him.”

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger⁴ and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib⁵ returned home humiliated.⁶ When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons⁷ struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire⁸ in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it.⁹ He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him.¹⁰

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

²tn 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?”

³tn Heb “turn [his] face from you.”

⁴tn Or “an angel.”

⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

⁷tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

⁸tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

⁹tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

¹⁰tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”