2 Raja-raja 25:30

25:30 He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died. ¹ 

2 Raja-raja 9:5

9:5 When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. ²  So he said, “I have a message for you, O officer.” ³  Jehu asked, “For which one of us?” ⁴  He replied, “For you, O officer.”

2 Raja-raja 12:15

12:15 They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed ⁵  the funds to the foremen, for they were honest. ⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 22:7

22:7 Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest.” ⁷ 

2 Raja-raja 12:14

12:14 It was handed over ⁸  to the foremen who used it to repair the Lord’s temple.

2 Raja-raja 25:29

25:29 Jehoiachin ⁹  took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

2 Raja-raja 22:6

22:6 including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work. ¹⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 12:4

12:4 Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal ¹¹  all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, ¹²  the silver received from those who have made vows, ¹³  and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple. ¹⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 5:12

5:12 The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! ¹⁵  Could I not wash in them and be healed?” So he turned around and went away angry.

2 Raja-raja 12:8

12:8 The priests agreed ¹⁶  not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs. ¹⁷ 

2 Raja-raja 12:11

12:11 They would then hand over ¹⁸  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ¹⁹  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

2 Raja-raja 25:24

25:24 Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. ²⁰  He said, “You don’t need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you.”

2 Raja-raja 2:16

2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ²¹  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²²  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Raja-raja 16:15

16:15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, “On the large altar ²³  offer the morning burnt sacrifice, the evening grain offering, the royal burnt sacrifices and grain offering, the burnt sacrifice for all the people of Israel, their grain offering, and their libations. Sprinkle all the blood of the burnt sacrifice and other sacrifices on it. The bronze altar will be for my personal use.” ²⁴ 

[25:30]  ¹ tc The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34. Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav (ו) on בְּיוֹמוֹ (bÿyomo), “in his day,” to the final vav (ו) on מוֹתוֹ (moto), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.

[9:5]  ² tn Heb “and he arrived and look, the officers of the army were sitting.”

[9:5]  ³ tn Heb “[there is] a word for me to you, O officer.”

[9:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “To whom from all of us?”

[12:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “gave.”

[12:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they did not conduct a reckoning of the men who gave the silver into their hand to give to the doers of the work, for in honesty they were working.”

[22:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “only the silver that is given into their hand should not be reckoned with them, for in faithfulness they are acting.”

[12:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “was given.”

[25:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and to buy wood and chiseled stone to repair the house.”

[12:4]  ¹¹ tn The words “I place at your disposal” are added in the translation for clarification.

[12:4]  ¹² tn Heb “the silver of passing over a man.” The precise meaning of the phrase is debated, but עָבַר (’avar), “pass over,” probably refers here to counting, suggesting the reference is to a census conducted for taxation purposes. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.

[12:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “the silver of persons, his valuation.” The precise meaning of the phrase is uncertain, but parallels in Lev 27 suggest that personal vows are referred to here. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.

[12:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “all the silver which goes up on the heart of a man to bring to the house of the Lord.”

[5:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel?” The rhetorical question expects an emphatic “yes” as an answer.

[12:8]  ¹⁶ tn Outside of this passage the verb אוּת (’ut) appears only in Gen 34:15-22.

[12:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and not to repair the damages to the temple.” This does not mean that the priests were no longer interested in repairing the temple. As the following context makes clear, the priests decided to hire skilled workers to repair the damage to the temple, rather than trying to make the repairs themselves.

[12:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “would give.”

[12:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[25:24]  ²⁰ tn The words “so as to give them…some assurance of safety” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[2:16]  ²¹ tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

[2:16]  ²² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:15]  ²³ tn That is, the newly constructed altar.

[16:15]  ²⁴ tn Heb “for me to seek.” The precise meaning of בָּקַר (baqar), “seek,” is uncertain in this context. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189.