2 Chronicles 9:21

9:21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships ¹  manned by Huram’s men ²  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ³  came into port with cargoes of ⁴  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 18:2

18:2 and after several years ⁶  went down to visit ⁷  Ahab in Samaria. ⁸  Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle to honor Jehoshaphat and those who came with him. ⁹  He persuaded him to join in an attack ¹⁰  against Ramoth Gilead.

2 Chronicles 21:19

21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. ¹¹  His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. ¹² 

2 Chronicles 31:17

31:17 They made disbursements to the priests listed in the genealogical records by their families, and to the Levites twenty years old and up, according to their duties as assigned to their divisions,

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¹ tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

² tn Heb “servants.”

³ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

⁴ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”

⁵ tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”

⁶ tn Heb “at the end of years.”

⁷ tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁸ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁹ tn Heb “and Ahab slaughtered for him sheep and cattle in abundance, and for the people who were with him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “to go up.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”

¹² tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”