2 Raja-raja 18:26

18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ¹  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ²  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Yesaya 36:11

36:11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ³  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ⁴  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

Daniel 1:4

1:4 young men in whom there was no physical defect and who were handsome, ⁵  well versed in all kinds of wisdom, well educated ⁶  and having keen insight, ⁷  and who were capable ⁸  of entering the king’s royal service ⁹  – and to teach them the literature and language ¹⁰  of the Babylonians. ¹¹ 

[18:26]  ¹ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

[18:26]  ² tn Or “Hebrew.”

[36:11]  ³ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the Assyrian empire.

[36:11]  ⁴ tn Or “in Hebrew” (NIV, NCV, NLT); NAB, NASB “in Judean.”

[1:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “good of appearance.”

[1:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “knowers of knowledge.”

[1:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “understanders of knowledge.”

[1:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “who had strength.”

[1:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “to stand in the palace of the king.” Cf. vv. 5, 19.

[1:4]  ¹⁰ sn The language of the Chaldeans referred to here is Akkadian, an East Semitic cuneiform language.

[1:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Chaldeans” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV). This is an ancient name for the Babylonians.