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.
14:8 Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah, equipped with large shields and spears. He also had 280,000 men from Benjamin who carried small shields and were adept archers; they were all skilled warriors.
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
16:7 At that time Hanani the prophet 14 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.
21:12 Jehoram 15 received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You 16 have not followed in the footsteps 17 of your father Jehoshaphat and of 18 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
13 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.”
14 tn Heb “They struck down.”
15 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.
17 tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”
18 tn Heb “and he built with them.”
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.”