2 Chronicles 18:30

18:30 Now the king of Syria had ordered his chariot commanders, “Do not fight common soldiers or high ranking officers; ¹  fight only the king of Israel!”

2 Chronicles 22:5-6

22:5 He followed their advice and joined Ahab’s son King Joram ²  of Israel in a battle against King Hazael of Syria ³  at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram. 22:6 Joram ⁴  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ⁵  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ⁶  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 24:23-24

24:23 At the beginning ⁸  of the year the Syrian army attacked ⁹  Joash ¹⁰  and invaded Judah and Jerusalem. They wiped out all the leaders of the people and sent all the plunder they gathered to the king of Damascus. 24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, ¹¹  for the people of Judah ¹²  had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians ¹³  gave Joash what he deserved. ¹⁴ 

2 Chronicles 28:5

28:5 The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians ¹⁵  defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. ¹⁶  He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him. ¹⁷ 

2 Chronicles 28:23

28:23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. ¹⁸  He reasoned, ¹⁹  “Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble.

[18:30]  ¹ tn Heb “small or great.”

[22:5]  ² sn Jehoram and Joram are alternate spellings of the Israelite king’s name (also in vv. 6-7). The shorter form is used in these verse to avoid confusion with King Jehoram of Judah, father of Azariah.

[22:5]  ³ tn Heb “Aram” (also in v. 6).

[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.

[24:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “turning.”

[24:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “went up against.”

[24:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the Lord gave into their hand an army [that was] very large.”

[24:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”

[28:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “and took captive from him a great captivity and brought [them] to Damascus.”

[28:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “who struck him down with a great striking.”

[28:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “the gods of Damascus, the ones who had defeated him.” The words “he thought” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The perspective is that of Ahaz, not the narrator! Another option is that “the kings” has been accidentally omitted after “gods of.” See v. 23b.

[28:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “said.”