Discovery Box2 Chronicles 15:17
Context15:17 The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. 1
2 Chronicles 32:12
Context32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 2 the Lord’s 3 high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”
2 Chronicles 32:1
Context32:1 After these faithful deeds were accomplished, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities, intending to seize them. 4
2 Chronicles 22:1-2
Context22:1 The residents of Jerusalem 5 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. 6 So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah. 22:2 Ahaziah was twenty-two 7 years old when he became king and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, the granddaughter 8 of Omri.
2 Chronicles 15:4
Context15:4 Because of their distress, they turned back to the Lord God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them. 9
[15:17] 1 tn Heb “yet the heart of Asa was complete all his days.”
[32:12] 2 tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.
[32:12] 3 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the
[32:1] 4 tn Heb “and he said to break into them for himself.”
[22:1] 5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[22:1] 6 tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”
[22:2] 7 tc Heb “forty-two,” but the parallel passage in 2 Kgs 8:26 reads “twenty-two” along with some
[22:2] 8 tn The Hebrew term בַּת (bat, “daughter”) can refer, as here, to a granddaughter. See HALOT 165-66 s.v. I בַּת 1.
[15:4] 9 tn Heb “and he allowed himself to be found by them.”
