2 Chronicles 9:24

9:24 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 22:2

22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two ²  years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter ³  of Omri.

2 Chronicles 24:1

Joash’s Reign

24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign. He reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. ⁴  His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

2 Chronicles 25:25

25:25 King Amaziah son of Joash of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of King Joash son of Jehoahaz of Israel.

2 Chronicles 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, ⁵  who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

2 Chronicles 36:21

36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. ⁶  The land experienced ⁷  its sabbatical years; ⁸  it remained desolate for seventy years, ⁹  as prophesied. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”

² tc Heb “forty-two,” but the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 8:26 reads “twenty-two” along with some mss of the LXX and the Syriac.

³ tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

⁵ tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

⁶ tn Or “accepted.”

⁷ sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile.

⁸ sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.

⁹ tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”