• 2Ch 2:2 - c/m: TOLD: counted
• 2Ch 2:7 - c/m: CAN SKILL: has skill
• 2Ch 2:7 - c/m: CUNNING: skilful
• 2Ch 2:7 - c/m: GRAVE: engrave
• 2Ch 2:8 - c/m: CAN SKILL: has skill
• 2Ch 2:13 - c/m: CUNNING: skilful
• 2Ch 2:14 - c/m: CUNNING: skilful

• 2Ch 3:15 - c/m: CHAPITER(S): capital(s)

• 2Ch 4:12 - c/m: CHAPITER(S): capital(s)
• 2Ch 4:12 - c/m: POMMELS: bowls
• 2Ch 4:13 - c/m: POMMELS: bowls

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• 2Ch 6:10 - c/m: ROOM(S): stead
• 2Ch 6:37 - c/m: BETHINK THEMSELVES: lay it to heart

• 2Ch 7:7 - c/m: MEAT: meal

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• 2Ch 9:4 - c/m: MEAT: food
• 2Ch 9:14 - c/m: CHAPMEN: traders
• 2Ch 9:24 - c/m: HARNESS: armor

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• 2Ch 11:15 - c/m: DEVILS: satyrs

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• 2Ch 18:9 - c/m: EITHER: each
• 2Ch 18:33 - c/m: HARNESS: armor

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• 2Ch 22:2 - a/r: FORTY, 2Ki 8:26: Twenty
• 2Ch 22:2-23:21
  • Harper’s Bible Commentary (edited by Mays, James Luther, New York: Harper and Row, 1988) comments:

    22:1-9 Ahaziah (ca. 843-842 b.c.)

    Verses 1-6 are taken from 2 Kings 8:25-29 with little variation. Ahaziah’s mother, Athaliah, is cited as the cause for her son’s evil (2 Chron. 22:2-3), as she had been for her husband earlier (21:6). Ahaziah’s action in joining with Joram of Israel in war against Syria is also related more directly to evil counsel received from the house of Ahab (22:5; cf. 2 Kings 8:27).

    Verses 7-9 represent a summary rewriting of 2 Kings 9:14-28, told here with the entire emphasis upon Ahaziah and provided with interpretative comments. Above all, it is stated that Ahaziah’s death in visiting Joram was ordained by God (2 Chron. 22:7). There are other minor differences between the two accounts, such as the circumstances surrounding Ahaziah’s death, and Chronicles adds the explanation that Ahaziah was buried because he was the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart (v. 9).

    22:10-23:21 Athaliah (ca. 842-837 b.c.)

    For verses. 10-12, cf. 2 Kings 11:1-3. Athaliah takes advantage of the death of her son Ahaziah to kill the remainder of the royal family of Judah. Ahaziah’s sister, Jehoshabeath (Kings: “Jehosheba”), however, hides her nephew Joash with her six years in the house of the Lord while Athaliah serves as the only queen ever to reign over Judah (or Israel). Chronicles makes explicit that this Jehoshabeath was the wife of Jehoiada the priest (v. 11), who appears unannounced in 2 Kings 11:4.

    2 Chron. 23:1-15 recounts Jehoiada’s revolution (cf. 2 Kings 11:4-16, with which our text is often in verbatim agreement). The Chronicler, however, includes the following in his account of placing Joash on the throne.

    First, while Kings speaks of the captains of the Carites and of the guards (v. 4), i.e., various Temple officials, Chronicles pictures a much broader conspiracy involving five captains of hundreds (23:1) who gather the Levites from Judah and the heads of father’s houses from Israel to place Joash on the throne. Indeed, apart from Jehoiada, there is no explicit participation of priests and Levites in the Kings account.

    For Chronicles, the priests and Levites alone enter the Temple (v. 6) and take up guard around Joash (v. 7). And while the participation of the people of the land is duly noted, the mention of Judah’s obedience and the participation of the singers with their musical instruments is added (vv. 8, 13; cf. 2 Kings 11:9, 14).

    Second, when Jehoiada presents Joash before the initial assembly, Kings states only that he showed them the king’s son. Chronicles states dramatically: “Behold, the king’s son. Let him reign, as the Lord spoke concerning the sons of David” (2 Chron. 23:3; cf. 2 Kings 11:4).

    2 Chron. 23:16-21 contains Jehoiada’s covenant. In 2 Kings 11:17-21 there is reference to two covenants, one religious and one civil. Chronicles speaks only of the religious covenant in which all agree that they should be the Lord’s people. The scope of the reforms that follow, including destruction of the house of Baal, is the same in both texts, but the “watchmen” whom Jehoida installs for the Temple in Kings (11:18) are placed under proper levitical supervision, and opportunity is taken to add additional reference to their position with reference to Moses and David (vv. 18b-19). The notes of joy and peace and quietness voiced in 2 Chron. 23:21, however, are already found in the Deuteronomistic source (2 Kings 11:20; see 1 Chronicles, “Introduction”), another example of a note first sounded there but intensified in Chronicles.

• 2Ch 23:14 - c/m: RANGES: ranks

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• 2Ch 26:14 - c/m: HABERGEON(S): coat(s) of mail
• 2Ch 26:15 - c/m: CUNNING: skilful

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• 2Ch 28:25 - c/m: SEVERAL: single

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• 2Ch 31:5 - c/m: CORN: grain
• 2Ch 31:19 - c/m: SEVERAL: single

• 2Ch 32:5 - c/m: DARTS: weapons
• 2Ch 32:28 - c/m: CORN: grain
• 2Ch 32:24-26 - King Hezekiah's illness and recovery
  • Parallel accounts also are found at:
    • 2Ki 20:1-11
    • Isa 38:1-22 (see detailed commentary at http://www.bibletexts.com/verses/v-isa.htm#38)

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• 2Ch 34:12 - c/m: CAN SKILL: has skill
• 2Ch 34:12 - c/m: SMELL: take no delight in

• 2Ch 35:13 - c/m: SOD: boiled

• 2Ch 36:15 - c/m: BETIMES: early