2 Raja-raja 10:25

10:25 When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard ¹  and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there. ²  Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal. ³ 

2 Raja-raja 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned ⁴  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians ⁵  and the royal bodyguard. ⁶  He met with them ⁷  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement ⁸  with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

2 Raja-raja 17:4

17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. ⁹  Hoshea had sent messengers to King So ¹⁰  of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. ¹¹ 

2 Raja-raja 20:6

20:6 I will add fifteen years to your life and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’” ¹² 

[10:25]  ¹ tn Heb “runners.”

[10:25]  ² tn Heb “and they threw.” No object appears. According to M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 116), this is an idiom for leaving a corpse unburied.

[10:25]  ³ tn Heb “and they came to the city of the house of Baal.” It seems unlikely that a literal city is meant. Some emend עִיר (’ir), “city,” to דְּבִיר (dÿvir) “holy place,” or suggest that עִיר is due to dittography of the immediately preceding עַד (’ad) “to.” Perhaps עִיר is here a technical term meaning “fortress” or, more likely, “inner room.”

[11:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

[11:4]  ⁵ sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.

[11:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “the runners.”

[11:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

[11:4]  ⁸ tn Or “covenant.”

[17:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the king of Assyria found in Hoshea conspiracy.”

[17:4]  ¹⁰ sn For discussion of this name, see HALOT 744 s.v. סוֹא and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 196.

[17:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and bound him in the house of confinement.”

[20:6]  ¹² tn Heb “for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”