2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram ¹  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ²  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ³  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 25:24

25:24 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in God’s temple that were in the care of Obed-Edom, the riches in the royal palace, and some hostages. Then he went back to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 26:21

26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ⁵  afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

2 Chronicles 30:6

30:6 Messengers ⁶  delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah.

This royal edict read: ⁷  “O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return ⁸  to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 30:8

30:8 Now, don’t be stubborn ¹⁰  like your fathers! Submit ¹¹  to the Lord and come to his sanctuary which he has permanently consecrated. Serve the Lord your God so that he might relent from his raging anger. ¹² 

2 Chronicles 32:21

32:21 The Lord sent a messenger ¹³  and he wiped out all the soldiers, princes, and officers in the army of the king of Assyria. So Sennacherib ¹⁴  returned home humiliated. ¹⁵  When he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons ¹⁶  struck him down with the sword.

2 Chronicles 33:3

33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ¹⁷  and worshiped ¹⁸  them.

2 Chronicles 34:16

34:16 Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and reported, ¹⁹  “Your servants are doing everything assigned to them.

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

³ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

⁴ tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

⁵ tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.

⁹ tn Heb “the runners.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and according to the command of the king, saying.”

¹¹ tn The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

¹² tn Heb “to the survivors who are left to you from the palm of the kings of Assyria.”

¹³ tn Heb “don’t stiffen your neck” (a Hebrew idiom for being stubborn).

¹⁴ tn Heb “give a hand.” On the meaning of the idiom here, see HALOT 387 s.v. I יָד 2.

¹⁵ tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from you.” The jussive with vav conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

¹⁷ tn Or “an angel.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹ tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

²⁰ tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

²¹ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

²² tn Or “served.”

²⁵ tn Heb “returned still the king a word, saying.”