2 Chronicles 12:16

12:16 Then Rehoboam passed away¹ and was buried in the City of David.² His son Abijah replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 14:4

14:4 He ordered Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors³ and to observe his law and commands.⁴

15:12 They solemnly agreed⁵ to seek the Lord God of their ancestors⁶ with their whole heart and being.

16:13 Asa passed away⁷ in the forty-first year of his reign.

20:33 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.⁸

25:28 His body was carried back by horses,⁹ and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors¹⁰ in the City of David.¹¹

27:9 Jotham passed away¹² and was buried in the City of David.¹³ His son Ahaz replaced him as king.

29:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done.¹⁴

33:12 In his pain¹⁵ Manasseh¹⁶ asked the Lord his God for mercy¹⁷ and truly¹⁸ humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.¹⁹

33:20 Manasseh passed away²⁰ and was buried in his palace. His son Amon replaced him as king.

¹tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

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

³tn Heb “fathers.”

⁴tn Heb “the law and the command.”

⁵tn Heb “entered into a covenant.”

⁶tn Heb “fathers.”

⁷tn Heb “lay down with his fathers, and he died.”

⁹tn Heb “and still the people did not set their heart[s] on the God of their fathers.”

¹¹tn Heb “and they carried him on horses.”

¹²tn Heb “fathers.”

¹³tc The Hebrew text has “Judah,” but some medieval mss read “David,” as does the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 14:20.

¹³tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹⁴sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

¹⁵tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which David his father had done.”

¹⁷tn Or “distress.”

¹⁸tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord his God.”

²⁰tn Or “greatly.”

²¹tn Heb “fathers.”

¹⁹tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”