2 Chronicles 13:9

13:9 But you banished ¹  the Lord’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods! ² 

2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram ³  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ⁴  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ⁵  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 24:5

24:5 He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!” But the Levites delayed.

2 Chronicles 25:5

25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah ⁷  and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age ⁸  equipped with spears and shields. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 34:22

34:22 So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king ¹⁰  went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, ¹¹  the supervisor of the wardrobe. ¹²  (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh ¹³  district.) They stated their business, ¹⁴ 

[13:9]  ¹ tn In the Hebrew text this is phrased as a rhetorical question, “Did you not banish?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course you did,” the force of which is reflected in the translation “But you banished.”

[13:9]  ² tn Heb “whoever comes to fill his hand with a bull of a son of cattle, and seven rams, and he is a priest to no-gods.”

[22:6]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

[22:6]  ⁵ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

[22:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.

[25:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy here for the people of Judah.

[25:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “young men going out to war.”

[25:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”

[34:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “and those who [were sent by] the king.”

[34:22]  ⁸ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 22:14 has the variant spelling “son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas.”

[34:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

[34:22]  ¹⁰ tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

[34:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and they spoke to her like this.”