2 Raja-raja 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned ¹  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians ²  and the royal bodyguard. ³  He met with them ⁴  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement ⁵  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 23:17

23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet ⁶  who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

2 Raja-raja 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ⁷  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ⁸  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ⁹  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ¹⁰  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[11:4]  ¹ tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

[11:4]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “the runners.”

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

[11:4]  ⁵ tn Or “covenant.”

[23:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “man of God.”

[23:24]  ⁷ tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

[23:24]  ⁸ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁹ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”