2 Chronicles 7:22

7:22 Others will then answer, ¹  ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors, ²  who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. ³  That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”

2 Chronicles 22:7

22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. ⁴  When Ahaziah ⁵  arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned ⁶  to wipe out Ahab’s family. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 28:3

28:3 He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, ⁸  a horrible sin practiced by the nations ⁹  whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 33:9

33:9 But Manasseh misled the people of ¹⁰  Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 34:12

34:12 The men worked faithfully. Their supervisors were Jahath and Obadiah (Levites descended from Merari), as well as Zechariah and Meshullam (descendants of Kohath). The Levites, all of whom were skilled musicians,

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¹ tn Heb “and they will say.”

² tn Heb “fathers.”

³ tn Heb “and they took hold of other gods and bowed down to them and served them.”

⁴ tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”

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

⁶ tn Heb “anointed.”

⁷ tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”

⁸ sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB “burnt his sons in the fire”; NASB “burned his sons in 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.

⁹ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “misled Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.