2 Chronicles 11:18

11:18 Rehoboam married ¹  Mahalath the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of ²  Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.

2 Chronicles 11:20

11:20 He later married Maacah the daughter of Absalom. She bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.

2 Chronicles 13:2

13:2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. ³  His mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. ⁴ 

There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 21:6

21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. ⁵  He did evil in the sight of ⁶  the Lord.

2 Chronicles 22:2

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two ⁷  years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter ⁸  of Omri.

2 Chronicles 27:1

Jotham’s Reign

27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁹  His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

2 Chronicles 29:1

Hezekiah Consecrates the Temple

29:1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ¹⁰  His mother was Abijah, ¹¹  the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Chronicles 22:11

22:11 So Jehoshabeath, ¹²  the daughter of King Jehoram, ¹³  took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away ¹⁴  from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

2 Chronicles 8:11

8:11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David ¹⁵  to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”

2 Chronicles 11:21

11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. ¹⁶  He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

2 Chronicles 20:31

Jehoshaphat’s Reign Ends

20:31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. ¹⁷  His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

¹ tn Heb “took for himself a wife.”

² tn The words “and of” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

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⁴ tn The parallel text in 1 Kgs 15:1 identifies his mother as “Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom” [=Absalom, 2 Chr 11:20). Although most English versions identify the mother’s father as Uriel of Gibeah, a number of English versions substitute the name “Maacah” here for the mother (e.g., NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT).

⁵ tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁷ tc Heb “forty-two,” but the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 8:26 reads “twenty-two” along with some mss of the LXX and the Syriac.

⁸ tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.

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¹² tn The parallel passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”

¹³ sn Jehoshabeath is a variant spelling of the name Jehosheba (2 Kgs 11:2).

¹⁴ tn Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn Heb “stole.”

¹⁵ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

¹⁷ 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).

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