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14 (13:23)[a] Abijah passed away[b] and was buried in the City of David.[c] His son Asa replaced him as king. During his reign[d] the land had rest for ten years.

Asa’s Religious and Military Accomplishments

(14:1) Asa did what the Lord his God desired and approved.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 14:1 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.
  2. 2 Chronicles 14:1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 14:1 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
  4. 2 Chronicles 14:1 tn Heb “in his days.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 14:2 tn Heb “and Asa did the good and the right in the eyes of the Lord his God.”