2 Kings 12:10

12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary ¹  and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. ² 

2 Kings 18:19

18:19 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence? ³ 

2 Kings 18:26-27

18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, ⁴  for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect ⁵  in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 18:27 But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. ⁶  His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.” ⁷ 

2 Kings 18:37

18:37 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 ⁸  and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

2 Kings 19:4

19:4 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. ⁹  When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. ¹⁰  So pray for this remnant that remains.’” ¹¹ 

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ¹²  day of the fifth month, ¹³  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ¹⁴  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 25:11

25:11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, deported the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. ¹⁶ 

[12:10]  ¹ tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”

[12:10]  ² tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[18:19]  ³ tn Heb “What is this object of trust in which you are trusting?”

[18:26]  ⁵ sn Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.

[18:26]  ⁶ tn Or “Hebrew.”

[18:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

[18:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”

[18:37]  ⁹ sn As a sign of grief and mourning.

[19:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”

[19:4]  ¹² tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”

[19:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”

[25:8]  ¹³ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

[25:8]  ¹⁴ sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:8]  ¹⁵ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[25:8]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[25:11]  ¹⁵ tc The MT has “the multitude.” But הֶהָמוֹן (hehamon) should probably be emended to הֶאָמוֹן (he’amon).