Now Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead with the whole Israelite army, 1 guarding against an invasion by King Hazael of Syria.
12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of 4 the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple.
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.” 5
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. 7 (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh 8 district.) They stated their business, 9
1 tn Heb “he and all Israel.”
2 tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the
3 tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.”
3 tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”
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 tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”
7 tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.
8 tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”