2 Chronicles 16:1
Context16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah, and he established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. 1
2 Chronicles 16:12
Context16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. 2 Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors. 3
2 Chronicles 24:23
Context24:23 At the beginning 4 of the year the Syrian army attacked 5 Joash 6 and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus.
2 Chronicles 36:10
Context36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought 7 to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative 8 Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:22
Context36:22 In the first year of the reign of 9 King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the promise he delivered through Jeremiah, 10 the Lord moved 11 King Cyrus of Persia to issue a written decree throughout his kingdom.
1 tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”
2 tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”
3 tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the
4 tn Heb “turning.”
5 tn Heb “went up against.”
6 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “sent and brought him.”
8 tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).
9 tn The words “the reign of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
10 tn Heb “to complete the word of the
sn Regarding the promise he delivered through Jeremiah see Jer 29:10.
11 tn Heb “stirred the spirit of.”