2 Kings 5:6

5:6 He brought the letter to king of Israel. It read: “This is a letter of introduction for my servant Naaman, ¹  whom I have sent to be cured of his skin disease.”

2 Kings 22:8

22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.

2 Kings 10:2

10:2 “You have with you the sons of your master, chariots and horses, a fortified city, and weapons. So when this letter arrives, ² 

2 Kings 10:7

10:7 When they received the letter, they seized the king’s sons and executed all seventy of them. ³  They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.

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 19:2

19:2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ⁴  clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

2 Kings 22:3

22:3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders: ⁵ 

2 Kings 22:10

22:10 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

2 Kings 22:13

22:13 “Go, seek an oracle from ⁶  the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about ⁷  the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, ⁸  because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.” ⁹ 

2 Kings 5:7

5:7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? ¹⁰  Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!” ¹¹ 

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 ¹²  and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

2 Kings 22:9

22:9 Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, ¹³  “Your servants melted down the silver in the temple ¹⁴  and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple.”

2 Kings 22:12

22:12 The king ordered Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Acbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant,

2 Kings 22:16

22:16 “This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, the details of which are recorded in the scroll which the king of Judah has read. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 23:3

23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed ¹⁶  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ¹⁷  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ¹⁸  by carrying out the terms ¹⁹  of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. ²⁰ 

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ²¹  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ²²  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ²³  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ²⁴  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ²⁵  of the king’s advisers ²⁶  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ²⁷  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

[5:6]  ¹ tn Heb “and now when this letter comes to you, look, I have sent to you Naaman my servant.”

[10:2]  ² tn Heb “And now when this letter comes to you – with you are the sons of your master and with you are chariots and horses and a fortified city and weapons.”

[10:7]  ³ tn Heb “and when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered seventy men.”

[19:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “elders of the priests.”

[22:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “with these orders, saying.”

[22:13]  ⁶ tn Or “inquire of.”

[22:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “concerning.”

[22:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “for great is the anger of the Lord which has been ignited against us.”

[22:13]  ⁹ 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.”

[5:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “Am I God, killing and restoring life, that this one sends to me to cure a man from his skin disease?” In the Hebrew text this is one lengthy rhetorical question, which has been divided up in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[5:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “Indeed, know and see that he is seeking an occasion with respect to me.”

[18:37]  ⁸ sn As a sign of grief and mourning.

[22:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “returned the king a word and said.”

[22:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “that was found in the house.”

[22:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all the words of the scroll which the king of Judah has read.”

[23:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

[23:3]  ¹² tn Heb “walk after.”

[23:3]  ¹³ tn Or “soul.”

[23:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “words.”

[23:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”

[23:24]  ¹² tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.

[23:24]  ¹³ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ¹⁴ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”

[25:19]  ¹³ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

[25:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

[25:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the people of the land.”