Discovery Box2 Chronicles 20:35--21:1 
Context20:35 Later King Jehoshaphat of Judah made an alliance with King Ahaziah of Israel, who 1 did evil. 20:36 They agreed 2 to make large seagoing merchant ships; 3 they built the ships in Ezion Geber. 20:37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, “Because 4 you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea. 5
21:1 Jehoshaphat passed away 6 and was buried with his ancestors 7 in the City of David. 8 His son Jehoram 9 replaced him as king.
1 tn Heb “he.” The pronoun has been translated as a relative pronoun for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Heb “he made an alliance with him.”
3 tn Heb “make ships to go to Tarshish.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish; a “Tarshish-ship” was essentially a large seagoing merchant ship.
4 tn Heb “when.”
5 tn Heb “to go to Tarshish.”
6 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
7 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 10, 12, 19).
8 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
9 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 8:16-24 has the variant spelling “Jehoram.”
