22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe. 5 (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh 6 district.) They stated their business, 7
37:5 When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,
1 tn Or “inquire of.”
2 tn Heb “concerning.”
3 tn Heb “for great is the anger of the
4 tn Heb “by doing all that is written concerning us.” Perhaps עָלֵינוּ (’alenu), “concerning us,” should be altered to עָלָיו (’alav), “upon it,” in which case one could translate, “by doing all that is written in it.”
5 tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”
6 tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.
7 tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”
8 tn Heb “elders of the priests” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NCV “the older priests”; NRSV, TEV, CEV “the senior priests.”
9 tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him” (cf. NRSV).
10 tn Or “rebuke” (KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV), or “correction.”
11 tn Or “contempt”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “disgrace.”
12 tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”
13 tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”
14 tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”
15 tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”