2 Chronicles 14:1

14:1 (13:23) ¹  Abijah passed away ²  and was buried in the City of David. ³  His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign ⁴  the land had rest for ten years.

2 Chronicles 14:8

14:8 Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah, equipped with large shields and spears. He also had 280,000 men from Benjamin who carried small shields and were adept archers; they were all skilled warriors.

2 Chronicles 14:13

14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; ⁵  they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah ⁶  carried off a huge amount of plunder.

2 Chronicles 15:8

15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. ⁷  He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 16:4

16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ⁹  They conquered ¹⁰  Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, ¹¹  and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 16:6-7

16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹²  He used the materials to build up ¹³  Geba and Mizpah.

16:7 At that time Hanani the prophet ¹⁴  visited King Asa of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied on the king of Syria and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

2 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 Jehoram ¹⁵  received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You ¹⁶  have not followed in the footsteps ¹⁷  of your father Jehoshaphat and of ¹⁸  King Asa of Judah,

[14:1]  ¹ 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.

[14:1]  ² tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[14:1]  ³ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[14:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “in his days.”

[14:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”

[14:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “strengthened himself.”

[15:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the porch of the Lord.”

[16:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

[16:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “They struck down.”

[16:4]  ¹⁵ sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

[16:6]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

[16:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he built with them.”

[16:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “the seer.”

[21:12]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[21:12]  ²⁶ tn 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.

[21:12]  ²⁷ tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

[21:12]  ²⁸ tn Heb “in the ways of.”