2 Kings 25:30

25:30 He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died. ¹ 

2 Kings 7:9

7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. ²  If we wait until dawn, ³  we’ll be punished. ⁴  So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”

2 Kings 15:5

15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease ⁵  until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ⁶  while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

2 Kings 19:3

19:3 “This is what Hezekiah says: ⁷  ‘This is a day of distress, insults, ⁸  and humiliation, ⁹  as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. ¹⁰ 

¹ tc The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34. Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav (ו) on בְּיוֹמוֹ (bÿyomo), “in his day,” to the final vav (ו) on מוֹתוֹ (moto), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.

² tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”

³ tn Heb “the light of the morning.”

⁴ tn Heb “punishment will find us.”

³ tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.

⁴ tn The precise meaning of בֵית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhofÿshit), “house of […?],” is uncertain. For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.

⁴ tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him.”

⁵ tn Or “rebuke,” “correction.”

⁶ tn Or “contempt.”

⁷ tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”