2 Raja-raja 22:5

22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen ¹  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, ² 

2 Raja-raja 23:33

23:33 Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him in Riblah in the land of Hamath and prevented him from ruling in Jerusalem. ³  He imposed on the land a special tax ⁴  of one hundred talents ⁵  of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Raja-raja 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ⁶  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ⁷  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ⁸ 

[22:5]  ¹ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[22:5]  ² 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.”

[23:33]  ³ tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has “when [he was] ruling in Jerusalem,” but the marginal reading (Qere), which has support from Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses, has “[preventing him] from ruling in Jerusalem.”

[23:33]  ⁴ tn Or “fine.”

[23:33]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold (cf. NCV, NLT); CEV “almost four tons of silver and about seventy-five pounds of gold.”

[24:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

[24:1]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”