2 Chronicles 2:14

2:14 whose mother is a Danite and whose father is a Tyrian. ¹  He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stones, and wood, as well as purple, violet, white, and crimson fabrics. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and understands any design given to him. He will work with your skilled craftsmen and the skilled craftsmen of my lord David your father.

2 Chronicles 22:11

22:11 So Jehoshabeath, ²  the daughter of King Jehoram, ³  took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away ⁴  from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So Jehoshabeath the daughter of King Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah so she could not execute him.

2 Chronicles 25:18

25:18 King Joash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, “A thorn bush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn bush. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 27:5

27:5 He launched a military campaign ⁶  against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites paid him 100 talents ⁷  of silver, 10,000 kors ⁸  of wheat, and 10,000 kors ⁹  of barley. The Ammonites also paid this same amount of annual tribute the next two years. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 35:3

35:3 He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the Lord, “Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don’t carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel!

¹ tn Heb “a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre.”

² sn Jehoshabeath is a variant spelling of the name Jehosheba (2 Kgs 11:2).

³ tn Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “stole.”

³ sn The thorn bush in the allegory is Judah. Amaziah’s success had deceived him into thinking he was on the same level as the major powers in the area (symbolized by the cedar). In reality he was not capable of withstanding an attack by a real military power such as Israel (symbolized by the wild animal).

⁴ tn Heb “he fought with.”

⁵ 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).

⁶ sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

⁷ tn Heb “10,000 kors of wheat and 10,000 of barley.” The unit of measure of the barley is omitted in the Hebrew text, but is understood to be “kors,” the same as the measures of wheat.

⁸ tn Heb “This the sons of Ammon brought to him, and in the second year and the third.”