2 Chronicles 22:3

22:3 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty, ¹  for his mother gave him evil advice. ² 

2 Chronicles 15:16

15:16 King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother ³  from her position as queen mother ⁴  because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 22:10

Athaliah is Eliminated

22:10 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line ⁵  of Judah. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 26:3

26:3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. ⁷  His mother’s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 13:2

13:2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. ⁸  His mother was Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. ⁹ 

There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

2 Chronicles 22:2

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two ¹⁰  years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter ¹¹  of Omri.

2 Chronicles 24:1

Joash’s Reign

24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. ¹²  His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

2 Chronicles 25:1

Amaziah’s Reign

25:1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ¹³  His mother was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 27:1

Jotham’s Reign

27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ¹⁴  His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

2 Chronicles 20:31

Jehoshaphat’s Reign Ends

20:31 Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. ¹⁵  His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

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. ¹⁶  His mother was Abijah, ¹⁷  the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Chronicles 12:13

12:13 King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; ¹⁸  he ¹⁹  was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. ²⁰  Rehoboam’s ²¹  mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.

2 Chronicles 11:18

11:18 Rehoboam married ²²  Mahalath the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of ²³  Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab.

2 Chronicles 2:14

2:14 whose mother is a Danite and whose father is a Tyrian. ²⁴  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.

¹ tn Heb “and also he walked in the ways of the house of Ahab.”

² tn Heb “for his mother was his adviser to do evil.”

³ tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors.

⁴ tn The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה (gÿvirah) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah.

⁵ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum, “arise”) is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

⁶ tn Heb “house of Judah.”

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¹⁰ tn The parallel text in 1 Kgs 15:1 identifies his mother as “Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom” [=Absalom, 2 Chr 11:20). Although most English versions identify the mother’s father as Uriel of Gibeah, a number of English versions substitute the name “Maacah” here for the mother (e.g., NIV, NCV, CEV, NLT).

¹¹ 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.

¹² tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.

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²² tn The parallel passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”

²³ tn Heb “and the king, Rehoboam, strengthened himself in Jerusalem and ruled.”

²⁴ tn Heb “Rehoboam.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

²⁵ tn Heb “the city where the Lord chose to place his name from all the tribes of Israel.”

²⁶ tn Heb “his”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁵ tn Heb “took for himself a wife.”

²⁶ tn The words “and of” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

²⁷ tn Heb “a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre.”