2 Raja-raja 12:9-11

12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of ¹  the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple. 12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary ²  and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. ³  12:11 They would then hand over ⁴  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ⁵  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

2 Raja-raja 12:21

12:21 His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer murdered him. ⁶  He was buried ⁷  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Amaziah replaced him as king.

2 Raja-raja 15:12

15:12 His assassination brought to fulfillment the Lord’s word to Jehu, ⁸  “Four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel.” ⁹  That is exactly what happened. ¹⁰ 

[12:9]  ¹ tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”

[12:10]  ² tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”

[12:10]  ³ tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[12:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “would give.”

[12:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[12:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “struck him down and he died.”

[12:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “they buried him.”

[15:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “It was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu, saying.”

[15:12]  ⁹ tn “sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.”

[15:12]  sn See the note at 2 Kgs 10:30.

[15:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and it was so.”