2 Chronicles 4:3-4

4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches ¹  all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.” 4:4 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. ² 

2 Chronicles 4:12-13

4:12 He made ³  the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, 4:13 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

2 Chronicles 9:21

9:21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships ⁴  manned by Huram’s men ⁵  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ⁶  came into port with cargoes of ⁷  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 14:1

14:1 (13:23) ⁹  Abijah passed away ¹⁰  and was buried in the City of David. ¹¹  His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign ¹²  the land had rest for ten years.

2 Chronicles 18:2

18:2 and after several years ¹³  went down to visit ¹⁴  Ahab in Samaria. ¹⁵  Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle to honor Jehoshaphat and those who came with him. ¹⁶  He persuaded him to join in an attack ¹⁷  against Ramoth Gilead.

2 Chronicles 21:19

21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. ¹⁸  His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. ¹⁹ 

2 Chronicles 34:3

34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor ²⁰  David. In his twelfth year he began ridding ²¹  Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.

¹ tn Heb “ten every cubit.”

² tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”

³ tn The words “he made” are added for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

⁵ tn Heb “servants.”

⁶ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

⁷ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”

⁸ tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”

⁵ sn Beginning with 14:1, the verse numbers through 14:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 14:1 ET = 13:23 HT, 14:2 ET = 14:1 HT, 14:3 ET = 14:2 HT, etc., through 14:15 ET = 14:14 HT. Beginning with 15:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

⁶ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

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

⁸ tn Heb “in his days.”

⁶ tn Heb “at the end of years.”

⁷ tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁸ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁹ tn Heb “and Ahab slaughtered for him sheep and cattle in abundance, and for the people who were with him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “to go up.”

⁷ tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”

⁸ tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”

⁸ tn Heb “father.”

⁹ tn Heb “purifying.”