2 Kings 4:10

4:10 Let’s make a small private upper room ¹  and furnish it with ²  a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”

2 Kings 9:17

9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching. ³  He said, “I see troops!” ⁴  Jehoram ordered, ⁵  “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’” ⁶ 

[4:10]  ¹ tn Heb “a small upper room of a wall”; according to HALOT 832 s.v. עֲלִיָּה, this refers to “a fully walled upper room.”

[4:10]  ² tn Heb “and let’s put there for him.”

[9:17]  ³ tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).

[9:17]  ⁴ tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.

[9:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “said.”

[9:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”