2 Raja-raja 7:17

7:17 Now the king had placed the officer who was his right-hand man ¹  at the city gate. When the people rushed out, they trampled him to death in the gate. ²  This fulfilled the prophet’s word which he had spoken when the king tried to arrest him. ³ 

2 Raja-raja 8:21

8:21 Joram ⁴  crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. ⁵  The Israelite army retreated to their homeland. ⁶ 

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, ⁷  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ⁸  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2 Raja-raja 23:2-3

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud ⁹  all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple. 23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed ¹⁰  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ¹¹  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ¹²  by carrying out the terms ¹³  of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. ¹⁴ 

[7:17]  ¹ tn Heb “the officer on whose hand he leans.”

[7:17]  ² tn Heb “and the people trampled him in the gate and he died.”

[7:17]  ³ tn Heb “just as the man of God had spoken, [the word] which he spoke when the king came down to him.”

[8:21]  ⁴ sn Joram is a short form of the name Jehoram.

[8:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Joram was surrounded and launched a victorious night counterattack. It would then be quite natural to understand the last statement in the verse to refer to an Edomite retreat. Yet v. 22 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. Therefore, if the MT is retained, it may be better to understand the final statement in v. 21 as a reference to an Israelite retreat (made in spite of the success described in the preceding sentence). The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֶתוֹ [’eto], “him,” instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. There is, however, no evidence for this emendation.

[8:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the people fled to their tents.”

[18:26]  ⁷ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

[18:26]  ⁸ tn Or “Hebrew.”

[23:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “read in their ears.”

[23:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

[23:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “walk after.”

[23:3]  ¹² tn Or “soul.”

[23:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “words.”

[23:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”