2 Chronicles 4:16

4:16 and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. ¹  All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple ²  were made from polished bronze.

2 Chronicles 17:2-3

17:2 He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons ³  throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.

17:3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor ⁴  David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. ⁵  He did not seek the Baals,

2 Chronicles 21:4

21:4 Jehoram took control of his father’s kingdom and became powerful. ⁶  Then he killed all his brothers, ⁷  as well as some of the officials of Israel.

2 Chronicles 22:4

22:4 He did evil in the sight of ⁸  the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they ⁹  gave him advice that led to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 24:22

24:22 King Joash disregarded ¹⁰  the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s ¹¹  son. As Zechariah ¹²  was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” ¹³ 

2 Chronicles 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, ¹⁴  who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

2 Chronicles 27:2

27:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. ¹⁵  (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) ¹⁶  Yet the people were still sinning.

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. ¹⁷  He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David. ¹⁸ 

¹ tc Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45.

² tn Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the Lord.”

³ tn Or perhaps, “governors.”

⁵ tn Heb “father.”

⁶ tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”

⁷ tn Heb “and Jehoram arose over the kingdom of his father and strengthened himself.”

⁸ tn Heb “and he killed all his brothers with the sword.”

⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁰ tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.

¹¹ tn Heb “did not remember.”

¹² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.

¹³ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”

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¹⁸ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.”