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 18:26

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.”

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 23:34

23:34 Pharaoh Necho made Josiah’s son Eliakim king in Josiah’s place, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz to Egypt, where he died. ⁵ 

¹ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

² tn Or “Hebrew.”

³ sn As a sign of grief and mourning.

⁴ tn Heb “elders of the priests.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he took Jehoahaz, and he came to Egypt and he died there.”