2 Chronicles 27:9

27:9 Jotham passed away ¹  and was buried in the City of David. ²  His son Ahaz replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 28:16

28:16 At that time King Ahaz asked the king ³  of Assyria for help.

2 Chronicles 28:22

28:22 During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:1

Ahaz’s Reign

28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁴  He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 28:19

28:19 The Lord humiliated ⁶  Judah because of King Ahaz of Israel, ⁷  for he encouraged Judah to sin and was very ⁸  unfaithful to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:21

28:21 Ahaz gathered riches ⁹  from the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.

2 Chronicles 28:27

28:27 Ahaz passed away ¹⁰  and was buried in the City of David; ¹¹  they did not bring him to the tombs of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 29:19

29:19 We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the Lord.”

2 Chronicles 28:24

28:24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

[27:9]  ¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[27:9]  ² sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[28:16]  ³ tc Most Hebrew mss read the plural, “kings,” but one Hebrew ms, the LXX and Vulgate read the singular “king.” Note the singular in v. 20.

[28:1]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[28:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.”

[28:19]  ⁷ tn Or “subdued.”

[28:19]  ⁸ sn That is, “of Judah.” Frequently in 2 Chronicles “Israel” is substituted for “Judah.”

[28:19]  ⁹ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verbal form to emphasize the degree of Ahaz’s unfaithfulness.

[28:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “divided up,” but some read חִלֵּץ (khillets, “despoiled”).

[28:27]  ¹¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[28:27]  ¹² sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.