2 Chronicles 18:3

18:3 King Ahab of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I will support you; my army is at your disposal and will support you in battle.”¹

2 Chronicles 18:5

18:5 So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, “Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?”² They said, “Attack! God³ will hand it over to the king.”

2 Chronicles 18:9

18:9 Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, dressed in their royal robes, at the threshing floor at⁴ the entrance of the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying before them.

2 Chronicles 18:1

Jehoshaphat Allies with Ahab

18:1 Jehoshaphat was very wealthy and greatly respected. He made an alliance by marriage with Ahab,

2 Chronicles 14:1-2

14:1 (13:23)⁵ Abijah passed away⁶ and was buried in the City of David.⁷ His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign⁸ the land had rest for ten years.

Asa’s Religious and Military Accomplishments

14:2 (14:1) Asa did what the Lord his God desired and approved.⁹

2 Chronicles 8:3

8:3 Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it.

2 Chronicles 8:1

Building Projects and Commercial Efforts

8:1 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,

2 Chronicles 11:23

11:23 He wisely placed some of his many sons throughout the regions of Judah and Benjamin in the various fortified cities.¹⁰ He supplied them with abundant provisions and acquired many wives for them.¹¹

2 Chronicles 11:1

11:1 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he summoned 180,000 skilled warriors from Judah and Benjamin¹² to attack Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

¹tn Heb “Like me, like you; and like your people, my people; and with you in battle.”

²tn Heb “Should we go against Ramoth Gilead for war or should I refrain?”

³tn Though Jehoshaphat had requested an oracle from “the Lord” (יְהוָה, yÿhvah, “Yahweh”), the Israelite prophets stop short of actually using this name and substitute the title הָאֱלֹהִים (ha’elohim, “the God”). This ambiguity may explain in part Jehoshaphat’s hesitancy and caution (vv. 7-8). He seems to doubt that the 400 are genuine prophets of the Lord.

³tn Heb “at,” which in this case probably means “near.”

⁴sn 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.

⁵tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁶sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁷tn Heb “in his days.”

⁵tn Heb “and Asa did the good and the right in the eyes of the Lord his God.”

⁶tn Heb “and he was discerning and broke up from all his sons to all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all the fortified cities.”

⁷tn “and he asked for a multitude of wives.”

⁷tn Heb “he summoned the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men, accomplished in war.”