2 Chronicles 27:9

27:9 Jotham passed away ¹  and was buried in the City of David. ²  His son Ahaz replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 28:16

28:16 At that time King Ahaz asked the king ³  of Assyria for help.

2 Chronicles 28:22

28:22 During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:1

Ahaz’s Reign

28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁴  He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 28:19

28:19 The Lord humiliated ⁶  Judah because of King Ahaz of Israel, ⁷  for he encouraged Judah to sin and was very ⁸  unfaithful to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:21

28:21 Ahaz gathered riches ⁹  from the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.

2 Chronicles 28:27

28:27 Ahaz passed away ¹⁰  and was buried in the City of David; ¹¹  they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 29:19

29:19 We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the Lord.”

2 Chronicles 25:5

25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah ¹²  and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age ¹³  equipped with spears and shields. ¹⁴ 

2 Chronicles 28:24

28:24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

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

³ tc Most Hebrew mss read the plural, “kings,” but one Hebrew ms, the LXX and Vulgate read the singular “king.” Note the singular in v. 20.

⁵ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁶ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.”

⁷ tn Or “subdued.”

⁸ sn That is, “of Judah.” Frequently in 2 Chronicles “Israel” is substituted for “Judah.”

⁹ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verbal form to emphasize the degree of Ahaz’s unfaithfulness.

⁹ tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).

¹¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹² sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

¹³ tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy here for the people of Judah.

¹⁴ tn Heb “young men going out to war.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”