2 Raja-raja 2:4

2:4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” ¹  But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.

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, ²  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ³  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2 Raja-raja 22:11

22:11 When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

2 Raja-raja 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁴  day of the twelfth month, ⁵  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁶  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁷  from prison.

2 Raja-raja 25:30

25:30 He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died. ⁸ 

[2:4]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[18:26]  ² sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

[18:26]  ³ tn Or “Hebrew.”

[25:27]  ⁴ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ⁵ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ⁷ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.

[25:30]  ⁸ tc The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34. Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav (ו) on בְּיוֹמוֹ (bÿyomo), “in his day,” to the final vav (ו) on מוֹתוֹ (moto), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.