2 Chronicles 14:2

Asa’s Religious and Military Accomplishments

14:2 (14:1) Asa did what the Lord his God desired and approved. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 17:3

17:3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor ²  David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. ³  He did not seek the Baals,

2 Chronicles 29:2

29:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done. ⁴ 

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. ⁵  His mother was Abijah, ⁶  the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Chronicles 14:8

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.

2 Chronicles 15:5

15:5 In those days ⁷  no one could travel safely, ⁸  for total chaos had overtaken all the people of the surrounding lands. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 15:2

15:2 He met ¹⁰  Asa and told him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The Lord is with you when you are loyal to him. ¹¹  If you seek him, he will respond to you, ¹²  but if you reject him, he will reject you.

2 Chronicles 22:2

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two ¹³  years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter ¹⁴  of Omri.

¹ tn Heb “and Asa did the good and the right in the eyes of the Lord his God.”

² tn Heb “father.”

³ tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”

³ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which David his father had done.”

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⁵ tn The parallel passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”

⁵ tn Heb “times.”

⁶ tn Heb “there was peace for the one going out or the one coming in.”

⁷ tn Heb “for great confusion was upon all the inhabitants of the lands.”

⁶ tn Heb “went out before.”

⁷ tn Heb “when you are with him.”

⁸ tn Heb “he will allow himself to be found by you.”

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.