2 Raja-raja 15:5

15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease ¹  until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ²  while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

2 Raja-raja 18:18

18:18 They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.

2 Raja-raja 18:37

18:37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn ³  and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

2 Raja-raja 19:2

19:2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ⁴  clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

2 Raja-raja 22:5

22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen ⁵  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, ⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ⁷  day of the fifth month, ⁸  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁹  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 25:24

25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. ¹¹  He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.”

[15:5]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.

[15:5]  ² tn The precise meaning of בֵית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhofÿshit), “house of […?],” is uncertain. For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.

[18:37]  ³ sn As a sign of grief and mourning.

[19:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “elders of the priests.”

[22:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[22:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages to the house.”

[25:8]  ⁷ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

[25:8]  ⁸ sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:8]  ⁹ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[25:8]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[25:24]  ¹¹ tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.