2 Chronicles 9:21

9:21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships ¹  manned by Huram’s men ²  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ³  came into port with cargoes of ⁴  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 14:1

14:1 (13:23) ⁶  Abijah passed away ⁷  and was buried in the City of David. ⁸  His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign ⁹  the land had rest for ten years.

2 Chronicles 16:1

16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah, and he established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 18:2

18:2 and after several years ¹¹  went down to visit ¹²  Ahab in Samaria. ¹³  Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle to honor Jehoshaphat and those who came with him. ¹⁴  He persuaded him to join in an attack ¹⁵  against Ramoth Gilead.

2 Chronicles 23:1

23:1 In the seventh year Jehoiada made a bold move. He made a pact ¹⁶  with the officers of the units of hundreds: Azariah son of Jehoram, Ishmael son of Jehochanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.

2 Chronicles 24:23

24:23 At the beginning ¹⁷  of the year the Syrian army attacked ¹⁸  Joash ¹⁹  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.

2 Chronicles 25:5

25:5 Amaziah assembled the people of Judah ²⁰  and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age ²¹  equipped with spears and shields. ²² 

2 Chronicles 34:8

34:8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple. ²³  He sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city official, and Joah son of Joahaz the secretary to repair the temple of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 36:10

36:10 At the beginning of the year King Nebuchadnezzar ordered him to be brought ²⁴  to Babylon, along with the valuable items in the Lord’s temple. In his place he made his relative ²⁵  Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:22

Cyrus Allows the Exiles to Go Home

36:22 In the first year of the reign of ²⁶  King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the promise he delivered through Jeremiah, ²⁷  the Lord moved ²⁸  King Cyrus of Persia to issue a written decree throughout his kingdom.

[9:21]  ¹ tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[9:21]  ² tn Heb “servants.”

[9:21]  ³ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

[9:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”

[9:21]  ⁵ tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”

[14:1]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[14:1]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “in his days.”

[16:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

[18:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “at the end of years.”

[18:2]  ¹⁷ tn The word “visit” is supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[18:2]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[18:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and Ahab slaughtered for him sheep and cattle in abundance, and for the people who were with him.”

[18:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to go up.”

[23:1]  ²¹ tn Or “covenant.”

[24:23]  ²⁶ tn Heb “turning.”

[24:23]  ²⁷ tn Heb “went up against.”

[24:23]  ²⁸ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[25:5]  ³¹ tn Heb “Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” by metonymy here for the people of Judah.

[25:5]  ³² tn Heb “young men going out to war.”

[25:5]  ³³ tn Heb “holding a spear and a shield.”

[34:8]  ³⁶ tn Heb “to purify the land and the house.”

[36:10]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “sent and brought him.”

[36:10]  ⁴² tn Heb “and he made Zedekiah his brother king.” According to the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:17, Zedekiah was Jehoiachin’s uncle, not his brother. Therefore many interpreters understand אח here in its less specific sense of “relative” (NEB “made his father’s brother Zedekiah king”; NASB “made his kinsman Zedekiah king”; NIV “made Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, king”; NRSV “made his brother Zedekiah king”).

[36:22]  ⁴⁶ tn The words “the reign of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[36:22]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “to complete the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

[36:22]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “stirred the spirit of.”