2 Chronicles 30:1
Hezekiah Observes the Passover
30:1 Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 1 and observe a Passover celebration for the Lord God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:18
30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law.
2 For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the
Lord, who is good, forgive
3
2 Chronicles 34:6-7
34:6 In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins
4 around them,
34:7 he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:2
34:2 He did what the
Lord approved
5 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps;
6 he did not deviate to the right or the left.
2 Chronicles 17:2
17:2 He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons
7 throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.
2 Chronicles 18:4
18:4 Then Jehoshaphat added,
8 “First seek an oracle from the
Lord.”
9
2 Chronicles 23:15
23:15 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance.
10 There they executed her.
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 “without what is written.”
3 tn Heb “make atonement for.”
4 tn “In their ruins” is the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text.
5 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”
6 tn Heb “and walked in the ways of David his father.”
7 tn Or perhaps, “governors.”
8 tn Heb “and Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel.”
9 tn Heb “the word of the Lord.” Jehoshaphat is requesting a prophetic oracle revealing the Lord’s will in the matter and their prospects for success. For examples of such oracles, see 2 Sam 5:19, 23-24.
10 tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went through the entrance of the gate of the horses [into] the house of the king.” Some English versions treat the phrase “gate of the horses” as the name of the gate (“the Horse Gate”; e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).