2 Chronicles 22:9

22:9 He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria. ¹  They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned, ²  “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with his whole heart.” There was no one in Ahaziah’s family strong enough to rule in his place. ³ 

2 Chronicles 32:9

32:9 Afterward King Sennacherib of Assyria, while attacking Lachish with all his military might, sent his messengers ⁴  to Jerusalem. The message was for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of ⁵  Judah who were in Jerusalem. It read:

2 Chronicles 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire ⁶  in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. ⁷  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 34:3

34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor ⁹  David. In his twelfth year he began ridding ¹⁰  Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.

2 Chronicles 36:23

36:23 It read: “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord God of the heavens has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build for him a temple in Jerusalem ¹¹  in Judah. May the Lord your God energize you who belong to his people, so you may be able to go back there!” ¹² 

[22:9]  ¹ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[22:9]  ² tn Heb “they said.”

[22:9]  ³ tn Heb “and there was no one belonging to the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for kingship.”

[32:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “servants.”

[32:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.

[33:6]  ⁷ tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

[33:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” Hebrew אוֹב (’ov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

[33:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[34:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “father.”

[34:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “purifying.”

[36:23]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[36:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Whoever [is] among you from all his people – may the Lord his God [be] with him so that he may go up.”