17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave 1 of his father.
38:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 2 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”
1 tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”
2 tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying”; NRSV “became sick and was at the point of death.”