2 Kings 11:6

11:6 Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation ¹  Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. ²  You will take turns guarding the palace. ³ 

2 Kings 1:11

1:11 The king ⁴  sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, ⁵  “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” ⁶ 

2 Kings 13:2

13:2 He did evil in the sight of ⁷  the Lord. He continued in ⁸  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins. ⁹ 

2 Kings 25:5

25:5 But the Babylonian army chased after the king. They caught up with him in the plains of Jericho, ¹⁰  and his entire army deserted him.

2 Kings 7:8

7:8 When the men with a skin disease reached the edge of the camp, they entered a tent and had a meal. ¹¹  They also took some silver, gold, and clothes and went and hid it all. ¹²  Then they went back and entered another tent. They looted it ¹³  and went and hid what they had taken.

2 Kings 23:3

23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed ¹⁴  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ¹⁵  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ¹⁶  by carrying out the terms ¹⁷  of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. ¹⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “the gate of Sur” (followed by many English versions) but no such gate is mentioned elsewhere in the OT. The parallel account in 2 Chr 23:5 has “Foundation Gate.” סוּר (sur), “Sur,” may be a corruption of יְסוֹד (yÿsod) “foundation,” involving in part dalet-resh confusion.

² tn Heb “the runners.”

³ tn The meaning of מַסָּח (massakh) is not certain. The translation above, rather than understanding it as a genitive modifying “house,” takes it as an adverb describing how the groups will guard the palace. See HALOT 605 s.v. מַסָּח for the proposed meaning “alternating” (i.e., “in turns”).

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tc The MT reads, “he answered and said to him.” The verb “he answered” (וַיַּעַן, vayya’an) is probably a corruption of “he went up” (וַיַּעַל, vayya’al). See v. 9.

⁶ sn In this second panel of the three-paneled narrative, the king and his captain are more arrogant than before. The captain uses a more official sounding introduction (“this is what the king says”) and the king adds “at once” to the command.

⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁸ tn Heb “walked after.”

⁹ tn Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”

¹⁰ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

¹³ tn Heb “they ate and drank.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and they hid [it].”

¹⁵ tn Heb “and they took from there.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “walk after.”

¹⁸ tn Or “soul.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “words.”

²⁰ tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”