11:9 The officers of the units of hundreds did just as 2 Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported 3 to Jehoiada the priest.
17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” 6
23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. 8 He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. 9
1 tn Heb “Because you have done well by doing what is proper in my eyes – according to all which was in my heart you have done to the house of Ahab – sons of four generations will sit for you on the throne of Israel.” In the Hebrew text the Lord’s statement is one long sentence (with a parenthesis). The translation above divides it into shorter sentences for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Heb “according to all that.”
3 tn Heb “came.”
3 tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”
4 tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”
4 tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”
5 tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”
6 tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.
7 tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”
7 tn Heb “and like him there was not a king before him who returned to the