24:13 Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven 1 years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide 2 what I should tell the one who sent me.”
36:22 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 in grief 3 and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.
13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. 4 Let them do this 5 with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.
1 tc The LXX has here “three” rather than “seven,” and is followed by NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT. See 1 Chr 21:12.
2 tn Heb “now know and see.”
3 tn Heb “with their clothes torn”; the words “in grief” have been supplied in the translation to indicate that this was done as a sign of grief and mourning.
4 tn Or “as ones who will give an account”; Grk “as giving an account.”
5 tn Grk “that they may do this.”