14:1 (13:23) 8 Abijah passed away 9 and was buried in the City of David. 10 His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign 11 the land had rest for ten years.
21:1 Jehoshaphat passed away 12 and was buried with his ancestors 13 in the City of David. 14 His son Jehoram 15 replaced him as king.
22:10 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line 16 of Judah. 17
26:22 The rest of the events of Uzziah’s reign, from start to finish, were recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 18
36:1 The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem. 22
1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
2 tn Or “strengthened.”
3 tn Or “strengthened.”
4 tn Heb “they walked in the way of.”
5 tn Heb “empty men, sons of wickedness.”
6 tn Heb “strengthened themselves.”
7 tn Heb “a young man and tender of heart.”
8 sn Beginning with 14:1, the verse numbers through 14:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 14:1 ET = 13:23 HT, 14:2 ET = 14:1 HT, 14:3 ET = 14:2 HT, etc., through 14:15 ET = 14:14 HT. Beginning with 15:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
9 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
10 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
11 tn Heb “in his days.”
12 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
13 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 10, 12, 19).
14 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
15 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 8:16-24 has the variant spelling “Jehoram.”
16 tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum, “arise”) is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.
17 tn Heb “house of Judah.”
18 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Uzziah, the former and the latter, Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, recorded.”
19 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 9, 25).
20 tn Heb “and there was great joy in Jerusalem, for from the days of Solomon son of David, king of Israel, there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.”
21 tn Heb “and the people of the land.”
22 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.