2 Chronicles 4:3

4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches¹ all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”

2 Chronicles 6:10

6:10 The Lord has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the Lord God of Israel

2 Chronicles 14:1

14:1 (13:23)² Abijah passed away³ and was buried in the City of David.⁴ His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign⁵ the land had rest for ten years.

2 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 Jehoram⁶ received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You⁷ have not followed in the footsteps⁸ of your father Jehoshaphat and of⁹ King Asa of Judah,

2 Chronicles 22:1

Ahaziah’s Reign

22:1 The residents of Jerusalem¹⁰ made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the city with the Arabs had killed all the older sons.¹¹ So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 26:23

26:23 Uzziah passed away¹² and was buried near his ancestors¹³ in a cemetery¹⁴ belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.)¹⁵ His son Jotham replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 32:33

32:33 Hezekiah passed away¹⁶ and was buried on the ascent of the tombs of the descendants of David. All the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem buried him with great honor.¹⁷ His son Manasseh replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 36:8

36:8 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah.¹⁸ His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.

¹tn Heb “ten every cubit.”

²sn 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.

³tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁴sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

⁵tn Heb “in his days.”

³tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.

⁵tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

⁶tn Heb “in the ways of.”

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⁵tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”

⁵tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁶tn Heb “fathers.”

⁷tn Heb “a field of burial.”

⁸tn Heb “for they said, ‘He had a skin disease.’”

⁶tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁷tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”

⁷tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and his horrible deeds which he did and that which was found against him, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”