Discovery Box2 Chronicles 5:12 
Context5:12 All the Levites who were musicians, including Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives, wore linen. They played cymbals and stringed instruments as they stood east of the altar. They were accompanied by 120 priests who blew trumpets.
2 Chronicles 11:14
Context11:14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord’s priests.
2 Chronicles 11:21
Context11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. 1 He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
2 Chronicles 11:23
Context11:23 He wisely placed some of his many sons throughout the regions of Judah and Benjamin in the various fortified cities. 2 He supplied them with abundant provisions and acquired many wives for them. 3
2 Chronicles 22:1
Context22:1 The residents of Jerusalem 4 made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the city with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. 5 So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 22:8
Context22:8 While Jehu was dishing out punishment to Ahab’s family, he discovered the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s relatives who were serving Ahaziah and killed them.
2 Chronicles 23:11
Context23:11 Jehoiada and his sons led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. 6 They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. 7 They declared, “Long live the king!”
2 Chronicles 24:7
Context24:7 (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)
2 Chronicles 28:3
Context28:3 He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, 8 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 9 whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.
1 sn Concubines were slave women in ancient Near Eastern societies who were the legal property of their master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with their master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. After the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (2 Sam 21:10-14; 1 Kgs 11:3).
2 tn Heb “and he was discerning and broke up from all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities.”
3 tn “and he asked for a multitude of wives.”
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”
6 tn The Hebrew word עֵדוּת (’edut) normally means “witness” or “testimony.” Here it probably refers to some tangible symbol of kingship, perhaps a piece of jewelry such as an amulet or neck chain (see the discussion in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 128). Some suggest that a document is in view, perhaps a copy of the royal protocol or of the stipulations of the Davidic covenant (see HALOT 790-91 s.v.).
7 tn Or “they made him king and anointed him.”
8 sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB “burnt his sons in the fire”; NASB “burned his sons in 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.
9 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
