2 Chronicles 36:9

Jehoiachin’s Reign

36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen 1  years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. 2  He did evil in the sight of 3  the Lord.

2 Chronicles 4:3

4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches 4  all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”

2 Chronicles 11:21

11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. 5  He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

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

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

3 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

4 tn Heb “ten every cubit.”

5 sn Concubines were slave women in ancient Near Eastern societies who were the legal property of their master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with their master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. After the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (2 Sam 21:10-14; 1 Kgs 11:3).