2 Chronicles 14:1

14:1 (13:23) ¹  Abijah passed away ²  and was buried in the City of David. ³  His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign ⁴  the land had rest for ten years.

2 Chronicles 14:13

14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; ⁵  they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah ⁶  carried off a huge amount of plunder.

2 Chronicles 15:8

15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. ⁷  He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 16:1

16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah, and he established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 16:4

16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ¹⁰  They conquered ¹¹  Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, ¹²  and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 16:7

16:7 At that time Hanani the prophet ¹³  visited King Asa of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied on the king of Syria and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

2 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 Jehoram ¹⁴  received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You ¹⁵  have not followed in the footsteps ¹⁶  of your father Jehoshaphat and of ¹⁷  King Asa of Judah,

¹ sn Beginning with 14:1, the verse numbers through 14:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 14:1 ET = 13:23 HT, 14:2 ET = 14:1 HT, 14:3 ET = 14:2 HT, etc., through 14:15 ET = 14:14 HT. Beginning with 15:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

² tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

³ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁴ tn Heb “in his days.”

⁵ tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”

⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “strengthened himself.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the porch of the Lord.”

¹³ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “They struck down.”

¹⁹ sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

²¹ tn Heb “the seer.”

²⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

²⁶ tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.

²⁷ tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

²⁸ tn Heb “in the ways of.”