2 Chronicles 4:3

4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches ¹  all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”

2 Chronicles 6:10

6:10 The Lord has kept the promise he made. I have taken my father David’s place and have occupied the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised. I have built this temple for the honor of the Lord God of Israel

2 Chronicles 14:1

14:1 (13:23) ²  Abijah passed away ³  and was buried in the City of David. ⁴  His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign ⁵  the land had rest for ten years.

2 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 Jehoram ⁶  received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You ⁷  have not followed in the footsteps ⁸  of your father Jehoshaphat and of ⁹  King Asa of Judah,

2 Chronicles 22:1

Ahaziah’s Reign

22:1 The residents of Jerusalem ¹⁰  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. ¹¹  So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 26:23

26:23 Uzziah passed away ¹²  and was buried near his ancestors ¹³  in a cemetery ¹⁴  belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.) ¹⁵  His son Jotham replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 32:33

32:33 Hezekiah passed away ¹⁶  and was buried on the ascent of the tombs of the descendants of David. All the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem buried him with great honor. ¹⁷  His son Manasseh replaced him as king.

2 Chronicles 36:8

36:8 The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah. ¹⁸  His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.

[4:3]  ¹ tn Heb “ten every cubit.”

[14:1]  ² sn Beginning with 14:1, the verse numbers through 14:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 14:1 ET = 13:23 HT, 14:2 ET = 14:1 HT, 14:3 ET = 14:2 HT, etc., through 14:15 ET = 14:14 HT. Beginning with 15:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[14:1]  ³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[14:1]  ⁴ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[14:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “in his days.”

[21:12]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[21:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

[21:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the ways of.”

[22:1]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[22:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”

[26:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[26:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “fathers.”

[26:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “a field of burial.”

[26:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “for they said, ‘He had a skin disease.’”

[32:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[32:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”

[36:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jehoiakim, and his horrible deeds which he did and that which was found against him, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”