2 Chronicles 30:1

Hezekiah Observes the Passover

30:1 Hezekiah sent messages throughout Israel and Judah; he even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, summoning them to come to the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem ¹  and observe a Passover celebration for the Lord God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 30:18

30:18 The majority of the many people from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun were ceremonially unclean, yet they ate the Passover in violation of what is prescribed in the law. ²  For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying: “May the Lord, who is good, forgive ³ 

2 Chronicles 34:6-7

34:6 In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins ⁴  around them, 34:7 he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:2

34:2 He did what the Lord approved ⁵  and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; ⁶  he did not deviate to the right or the left.

2 Chronicles 17:2

17:2 He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons ⁷  throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.

2 Chronicles 18:4

18:4 Then Jehoshaphat added, ⁸  “First seek an oracle from the Lord.” ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 23:15

23:15 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. ¹⁰  There they executed her.

[30:1]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[30:18]  ² tn Heb “without what is written.”

[30:18]  ³ tn Heb “make atonement for.”

[34:6]  ⁴ tn “In their ruins” is the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text.

[34:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

[34:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “and walked in the ways of David his father.”

[17:2]  ⁷ tn Or perhaps, “governors.”

[18:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “and Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel.”

[18:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “the word of the Lord.” Jehoshaphat is requesting a prophetic oracle revealing the Lord’s will in the matter and their prospects for success. For examples of such oracles, see 2 Sam 5:19, 23-24.

[23:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went through the entrance of the gate of the horses [into] the house of the king.” Some English versions treat the phrase “gate of the horses” as the name of the gate (“the Horse Gate”; e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).