InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse 2 Ki C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25
2 Ki 8 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V26 V27 V28 V29
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Ahab (KI1 16:28) · Ahaziah (KI2 8:24) · Joram (KI2 1:17) · Judah (patriarch)
OET-LV In_year two_plus ten year of_Yəhōrām the_son_of ʼAḩʼāⱱ the_king_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) ʼAḩazyāh the_son_of Yəhōrām/(Jehoram) the_king_of Yəhūdāh he_became_king.
OET (OET-RV) In the twelfth year of Ahav’s son Yoram’s (Joram’s) reign over Yisrael (Israel), Yehoram’s (Jehoram’s) son Ahazyah became the king of Yehudah (Judah).
Note 1 topic: writing-participants
בִּשְׁנַת֙ שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה לְיוֹרָ֥ם בֶּן־אַחְאָ֖ב מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מָלַ֛ךְ אֲחַזְיָ֥הוּ בֶן־יְהוֹרָ֖ם מֶ֥לֶךְ יְהוּדָֽה
(Some words not found in UHB: in=year two/dual teen year of,Joram son_of ʼAḩʼāⱱ king Yisrael reign ʼAḩazyāh son_of Yəhōrām/(Jehoram) king Yehuda )
In this verse and the next two verses, the author is introducing Ahaziah as a participant in the story as the new king of Judah. To translate this verse, see how you translated the similar expressions in 8:16.
Note 2 topic: translate-ordinal
בִּשְׁנַת֙ שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה שָׁנָ֔ה לְיוֹרָ֥ם
(Some words not found in UHB: in=year two/dual teen year of,Joram son_of ʼAḩʼāⱱ king Yisrael reign ʼAḩazyāh son_of Yəhōrām/(Jehoram) king Yehuda )
If your language would not represent a number in a form such as the year of 12, you could represent this number in a form that your language would use. If you have already translated the book of 1 Kings, see how you translated the same expression in 1 Kings 15:1 and similar places in that book. Alternate translation: [In the twelfth year of Joram]
OET-LV In_year two_plus ten year of_Yəhōrām the_son_of ʼAḩʼāⱱ the_king_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) ʼAḩazyāh the_son_of Yəhōrām/(Jehoram) the_king_of Yəhūdāh he_became_king.
OET (OET-RV) In the twelfth year of Ahav’s son Yoram’s (Joram’s) reign over Yisrael (Israel), Yehoram’s (Jehoram’s) son Ahazyah became the king of Yehudah (Judah).
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.