21:1 Jehoshaphat passed away 3 and was buried with his ancestors 4 in the City of David. 5 His son Jehoram 6 replaced him as king.
6:1 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.
10:29 They went through the pass,
spent the night at Geba.
Ramah trembled,
Gibeah of Saul ran away.
1 tn Heb “broke it up.”
2 tn Heb “all the property which was found in the house of the king.”
3 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
4 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 10, 12, 19).
5 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
6 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 8:16-24 has the variant spelling “Jehoram.”
7 tn Or “like a plain” (similar KJV, NAB, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT); or “like a steppe”; cf. CEV “flatlands.” The Hebrew term עֲרָבָה (’aravah) refers to an arid plain or steppe, but can be used specifically as the name of the rift valley running from the Sea of Galilee via the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.
8 sn The expression from Geba to Rimmon is a way of indicating the extent of all Judah from north (2 Kgs 23:8) to south (Job 15:32; 19:7). Since Geba (Heb. גֶּבַע) means “hill” and Rimmon resembles the word for height (Heb. רָמָה, ramah), this could be a play on words suggesting that all the high country will be made low, like the great Arabah valley.
9 tn Or “old gate” (NLT); or “former gate” (NRSV).
10 sn From the Benjamin Gate…on to the Corner Gate marks the northern wall of the city of Jerusalem from east to west.
11 sn From the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses indicates the extent of Jerusalem from north to south.