2 Chronicles 14:1

14:1 (13:23)¹ Abijah passed away² and was buried in the City of David.³ His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign⁴ the land had rest for ten years.

2 Chronicles 20:12

20:12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don’t know what we should do; we look to you for help.”⁵

2 Chronicles 22:1

Ahaziah’s Reign

22:1 The residents of Jerusalem⁶ made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the city with the Arabs had killed all the older sons.⁷ So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 26:21

26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters,⁸ afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

2 Chronicles 26:23

26:23 Uzziah passed away⁹ and was buried near his ancestors¹⁰ in a cemetery¹¹ belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.)¹² His son Jotham replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 32:33

32:33 Hezekiah passed away¹³ and was buried on the ascent of the tombs of the descendants of David. All the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem buried him with great honor.¹⁴ His son Manasseh replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 33:7

33:7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.¹⁵

2 Chronicles 36:8

36:8 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah.¹⁶ His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.

¹sn 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.

²tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

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

⁴tn Heb “in his days.”

⁵tn Heb “for [or “indeed”] upon you are our eyes.”

⁹map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁰tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”

¹³tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.

¹⁷tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹⁸tn Heb “fathers.”

¹⁹tn Heb “a field of burial.”

²⁰tn Heb “for they said, ‘He had a skin disease.’”

²¹tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

²²tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”

²⁵tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name permanently” (or perhaps “forever”).

²⁹tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and his horrible deeds which he did and that which was found against him, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”