2 Tawarikh 16:1-14
Konteks16:1 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. 1 16:2 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and sent it to King Ben Hadad of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message: 16:3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 2 See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 3 16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. 4 They conquered 5 Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, 6 and all the storage cities of Naphtali. 16:5 When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying 7 Ramah and abandoned the project. 8 16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. 9 He used the materials to build up 10 Geba and Mizpah.
16:7 At that time Hanani the prophet 11 visited King Asa of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied on the king of Syria and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand. 16:8 Did not the Cushites and Libyans have a huge army with chariots and a very large number of horsemen? But when you relied on the Lord, he handed them over to you! 16:9 Certainly 12 the Lord watches the whole earth carefully 13 and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. 14 You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war. 16:10 Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. 15 Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.
16:11 The events of Asa’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 16 16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. 17 Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors. 18 16:13 Asa passed away 19 in the forty-first year of his reign. 16:14 He was buried in the tomb he had carved out in the City of David. 20 They laid him to rest on a bier covered with spices and assorted mixtures of ointments. They made a huge bonfire to honor him. 21
2 Tawarikh 24:17-27
Konteks24:17 After Jehoiada died, the officials of Judah visited the king and declared their loyalty to him. 22 The king listened to their advice. 23 24:18 They abandoned the temple of the Lord God of their ancestors, 24 and worshiped 25 the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem. 24:19 The Lord sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. 26 They warned 27 the people, but they would not pay attention. 24:20 God’s Spirit energized 28 Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you violating the commands of the Lord? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the Lord, he has rejected you!’” 24:21 They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. 24:22 King Joash disregarded 29 the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s 30 son. As Zechariah 31 was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” 32
24:23 At the beginning 33 of the year the Syrian army attacked 34 Joash 35 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. 24:24 Even though the invading Syrian army was relatively weak, the Lord handed over to them Judah’s very large army, 36 for the people of Judah 37 had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors. The Syrians 38 gave Joash what he deserved. 39 24:25 When they withdrew, they left Joash 40 badly wounded. His servants plotted against him because of what he had done to 41 the son 42 of Jehoiada the priest. They murdered him on his bed. Thus 43 he died and was buried in the City of David, 44 but not in the tombs of the kings. 24:26 The conspirators were Zabad son of Shimeath (an Ammonite woman) and Jehozabad son of Shimrith (a Moabite woman).
24:27 The list of Joash’s 45 sons, the many prophetic oracles pertaining to him, and the account of his building project on God’s temple are included in the record of the Scroll of the Kings. 46 His son Amaziah replaced him as king.
2 Tawarikh 26:16-23
Konteks26:16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. 47 He disobeyed 48 the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar. 26:17 Azariah the priest and eighty other brave priests of the Lord followed him in. 26:18 They confronted 49 King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not proper for you, Uzziah, to offer incense to the Lord. That is the responsibility of the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to offer incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have disobeyed 50 and the Lord God will not honor you!” 26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving 51 at the priests, a skin disease 52 appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar. 26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at 53 him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king 54 himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him. 26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 55 afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
26:22 The rest of the events of Uzziah’s reign, from start to finish, were recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 56 26:23 Uzziah passed away 57 and was buried near his ancestors 58 in a cemetery 59 belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.) 60 His son Jotham replaced him as king.
[16:1] 1 tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”
[16:3] 2 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
[16:3] 3 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
[16:4] 4 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”
[16:4] 5 tn Heb “They struck down.”
[16:4] 6 sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.
[16:5] 8 tn Heb “and he caused his work to cease.”
[16:6] 9 tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”
[16:6] 10 tn Heb “and he built with them.”
[16:9] 13 tn Heb “the eyes of the
[16:9] 14 tn Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”
[16:10] 15 tn Heb “and Asa was angry at the seer, and he put him [in] the house of stocks, because of his rage with him over this.”
[16:11] 16 tn Heb “Look, the events of Asa, the former and the latter, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.”
[16:12] 17 tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”
[16:12] 18 tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the
[16:13] 19 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers, and he died.”
[16:14] 20 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
[16:14] 21 tn Heb “and they burned for him a large fire, very great.”
[24:17] 22 tn Heb “came and bowed down to the king.”
[24:18] 24 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).
[24:19] 26 tn Heb “and he sent among them prophets to bring them back to the
[24:19] 27 tn Heb “testified among.”
[24:22] 29 tn Heb “did not remember.”
[24:22] 30 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[24:22] 31 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[24:22] 32 tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.
[24:23] 34 tn Heb “went up against.”
[24:23] 35 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[24:24] 36 tn Heb “though with a small amount of men the army of Aram came, the
[24:24] 37 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[24:24] 38 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Syrians) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[24:24] 39 tn Heb “executed judgments [on] Joash.”
[24:25] 40 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[24:25] 41 tn Heb “because of the shed blood of.”
[24:25] 42 tc The MT has the plural בְּנֵי (bÿney, “sons”), but the final yod is dittographic. Note the yod that immediately follows.
[24:25] 43 tn Heb “and he died.”
[24:25] 44 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
[24:27] 45 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joash) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[24:27] 46 tn Heb “And his sons and the abundance of the oracle[s] against him, and the founding of the house of God, look are they not written on the writing of the scroll of the kings?”
[26:16] 47 tn Heb “his heart was high [i.e., proud] to destroy.”
[26:16] 48 tn Or “was unfaithful to.”
[26:18] 49 tn Heb “stood against.”
[26:18] 50 tn Or “been unfaithful.”
[26:19] 52 tn Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s disease). See 2 Kgs 5:1.
[26:20] 53 tn Heb “turned toward.”
[26:20] 54 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[26:21] 55 tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.
[26:22] 56 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Uzziah, the former and the latter, Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, recorded.”
[26:23] 57 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
