2 Chronicles 21:5

21:5 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 21:16

21:16 The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the Philistines ²  and the Arabs who lived beside the Cushites.

2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram ³  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ⁴  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ⁵  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 17:8

17:8 They were accompanied by the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah, and by the priests Elishama and Jehoram.

2 Chronicles 21:1

21:1 Jehoshaphat passed away ⁷  and was buried with his ancestors ⁸  in the City of David. ⁹  His son Jehoram ¹⁰  replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 21:4

21:4 Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful. ¹¹  Then he killed all his brothers, ¹²  as well as some of the officials of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:9

21:9 Jehoram crossed over to Zair with his officers and all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 21:3

21:3 Their father gave them many presents, including silver, gold, and other precious items, along with fortified cities in Judah. But he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because he was the firstborn.

2 Chronicles 22:1

Ahaziah’s Reign

22:1 The residents of Jerusalem ¹⁴  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. ¹⁵  So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 22:5

22:5 He followed their advice and joined Ahab’s son King Joram ¹⁶  of Israel in a battle against King Hazael of Syria ¹⁷  at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram.

2 Chronicles 22:7

22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. ¹⁸  When Ahaziah ¹⁹  arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned ²⁰  to wipe out Ahab’s family. ²¹ 

2 Chronicles 22:11

22:11 So Jehoshabeath, ²²  the daughter of King Jehoram, ²³  took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away ²⁴  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.

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

² tn Heb “the spirit of the Philistines.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

⁵ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

⁶ tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

⁴ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 10, 12, 19).

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

⁷ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 8:16-24 has the variant spelling “Jehoram.”

⁵ tn Heb “and Jehoram arose over the kingdom of his father and strengthened himself.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he killed all his brothers with the sword.”

⁶ tc Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Jehoram was surrounded and launched a victorious nighttime counterattack. Yet v. 10 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֹתוֹ [’oto, “him”] instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. See also 2 Kgs 8:21.

⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁸ tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”

⁸ sn Jehoram and Joram are alternate spellings of the Israelite king’s name (also in vv. 6-7). The shorter form is used in these verse to avoid confusion with King Jehoram of Judah, father of Azariah.

⁹ tn Heb “Aram” (also in v. 6).

⁹ tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “anointed.”

¹² tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”

¹⁰ sn Jehoshabeath is a variant spelling of the name Jehosheba (2 Kgs 11:2).

¹¹ tn Heb “the king”; the referent (King Jehoram, see later in this verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “stole.”