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 ¹  and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

2 Raja-raja 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ²  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ³  and how I have carried out your will.” ⁴  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁵ 

[18:37]  ¹ sn As a sign of grief and mourning.

[20:3]  ² tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

[20:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[20:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”