2 Chronicles 10:6

10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ¹  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ²  “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

2 Chronicles 10:2

10:2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard the news, he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon. Jeroboam returned from Egypt.

2 Chronicles 17:5-6

17:5 The Lord made his kingdom secure; ³  all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he became very wealthy and greatly respected. ⁴  17:6 He was committed to following the Lord; ⁵  he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

2 Chronicles 17:1

Jehoshaphat Becomes King

17:1 His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king and solidified his rule over Israel. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 22:6-8

22:6 Joram ⁷  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ⁸  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ⁹  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ¹⁰ 

22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. ¹¹  When Ahaziah ¹²  arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned ¹³  to wipe out Ahab’s family. ¹⁴  22:8 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.

¹ tn Heb “stood before.”

² tn Heb “saying.”

³ tn Heb “established the kingdom in his hand.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he had wealth and honor in abundance.”

⁵ tn Heb “and his heart was high in the ways of the Lord.” Perhaps גָּבַהּ (gavah, “be high”) here means “be cheerful” (HALOT 171 s.v.) or “be encouraged” (BDB 147 s.v. 3.a).

⁶ tn Heb “and strengthened himself over Israel.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

⁹ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

¹⁰ tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

¹¹ tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”

¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “anointed.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”