Discovery Box2 Chronicles 12:13 
Context12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; 1 he 2 was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. 3 Rehoboam’s 4 mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.
2 Chronicles 15:2
Context15:2 He met 5 Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. 6 If you seek him, he will respond to you, 7 but if you reject him, he will reject you.
2 Chronicles 22:6
Context22:6 Joram 8 returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians 9 in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah 10 son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. 11
2 Chronicles 28:23
Context28:23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. 12 He reasoned, 13 “Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble.
2 Chronicles 33:6
Context33:6 He passed his sons through the fire 14 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. 15 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. 16
2 Chronicles 34:3
Context34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor 17 David. In his twelfth year he began ridding 18 Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.
2 Chronicles 35:24
Context35:24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, put him in another chariot that he owned, and brought him to Jerusalem, 19 where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors; 20 all the people of Judah and Jerusalem mourned Josiah.
1 tn Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”
2 tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.
3 tn Heb “the city where the
4 tn Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “went out before.”
6 tn Heb “when you are with him.”
7 tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”
10 tc Most Hebrew
11 tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.
12 tn Heb “the gods of Damascus, the ones who had defeated him.” The words “he thought” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The perspective is that of Ahaz, not the narrator! Another option is that “the kings” has been accidentally omitted after “gods of.” See v. 23b.
13 tn Heb “said.”
14 tn 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.
15 tn 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.
16 tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the
17 tn Heb “father.”
18 tn Heb “purifying.”
19 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
20 tn Heb “fathers.”
