2 Kings 18:18

18:18 They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.

2 Kings 22:13-14

22:13 “Go, seek an oracle from ¹  the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about ²  the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, ³  because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.” ⁴ 

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. ⁵  (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh ⁶  district.) They stated their business, ⁷ 

Isaiah 37:2-5

37:2 Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ⁸  clothed in sackcloth, sent this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz: 37:3 “This is what Hezekiah says: ⁹  ‘This is a day of distress, insults, ¹⁰  and humiliation, ¹¹  as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. ¹²  37:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. ¹³  When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. ¹⁴  So pray for this remnant that remains.’” ¹⁵ 

37:5 When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,

[22:13]  ¹ tn Or “inquire of.”

[22:13]  ² tn Heb “concerning.”

[22:13]  ³ tn Heb “for great is the anger of the Lord which has been ignited against us.”

[22:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “by doing all that is written concerning us.” Perhaps עָלֵינוּ (’alenu), “concerning us,” should be altered to עָלָיו (’alav), “upon it,” in which case one could translate, “by doing all that is written in it.”

[22:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

[22:14]  ⁶ tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

[22:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”

[37:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “elders of the priests” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NCV “the older priests”; NRSV, TEV, CEV “the senior priests.”

[37:3]  ⁹ tn In the Hebrew text this verse begins with “they said to him” (cf. NRSV).

[37:3]  ¹⁰ tn Or “rebuke” (KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV), or “correction.”

[37:3]  ¹¹ tn Or “contempt”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “disgrace.”

[37:3]  ¹² tn Heb “when sons come to the cervical opening and there is no strength to give birth.”

[37:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”

[37:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”

[37:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”