2 Chronicles 18:4

18:4 Then Jehoshaphat added, ¹  “First seek an oracle from the Lord.” ² 

2 Chronicles 18:8

18:8 The king of Israel summoned an officer and said, “Quickly bring Micaiah son of Imlah.”

2 Chronicles 18:32

18:32 When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

2 Chronicles 21:5

21:5 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem. ³ 

2 Chronicles 21:8

21:8 During Jehoram’s ⁴  reign Edom freed themselves from Judah’s control and set up their own king. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 27:8

27:8 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 28:20

28:20 King Tiglath-pileser ⁶  of Assyria came, but he gave him more trouble than support. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 32:10

32:10 “This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege? ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 33:1

Manasseh’s Reign

33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 33:21

Amon’s Reign

33:21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 34:1

Josiah Institutes Religious Reforms

34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹¹ 

2 Chronicles 35:4

35:4 Prepare yourselves by your families according to your divisions, as instructed ¹²  by King David of Israel and his son Solomon.

2 Chronicles 36:2-3

36:2 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 36:3 The king of Egypt prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem and imposed on the land a special tax ¹³  of one hundred talents ¹⁴  of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Chronicles 36:6

36:6 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked him, ¹⁵  bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away ¹⁶  to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:11

Zedekiah’s Reign

36:11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “and Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel.”

² tn Heb “the word of the Lord.” Jehoshaphat is requesting a prophetic oracle revealing the Lord’s will in the matter and their prospects for success. For examples of such oracles, see 2 Sam 5:19, 23-24.

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⁵ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “in his days Edom rebelled from under the hand of Judah and enthroned a king over them.”

⁷ tn Heb “Tilgath-pilneser,” a variant spelling of Tiglath-pileser.

⁸ tn Heb “and he caused him distress and did not strengthen him.”

⁹ tn Heb “On what are you trusting that [you] are living during the siege in Jerusalem.”

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¹⁷ tn Heb “written.”

¹⁹ tn Or “a fine.”

²⁰ tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).

²¹ tn Heb “came up against him.”

²² tn Heb “to carry him away.”

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