18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, 1 for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect 2 in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
18:37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn 3 and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.
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. 4 (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh 5 district.) They stated their business, 6
1 sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.
2 tn Or “Hebrew.”
3 sn As a sign of grief and mourning.
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.”