2 Kings 10:5

10:5 So the palace supervisor,¹ the city commissioner,² the leaders,³ and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, “We are your subjects!⁴ Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.”⁵

2 Kings 11:6

11:6 Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation⁶ Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard.⁷ You will take turns guarding the palace.⁸

2 Kings 14:10

14:10 You thoroughly defeated Edom⁹ and it has gone to your head!¹⁰ Gloat over your success,¹¹ but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?”¹²

2 Kings 14:14

14:14 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages.¹³ Then he went back to Samaria.¹⁴

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2 Kings 15:25

15:25 His officer Pekah son of Remaliah conspired against him. He and fifty Gileadites assassinated Pekahiah, as well as Argob and Arieh, in Samaria in the fortress of the royal palace.¹⁵ Pekah then took his place as king.

2 Kings 16:8

16:8 Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were¹⁶ in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute¹⁷ to the king of Assyria.

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 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 torn¹⁸ and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

2 Kings 20:17

20:17 ‘Look, a time is¹⁹ coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.

¹tn Heb “the one who was over the house.”

²tn Heb “the one who was over the city.”

³tn Or “elders.”

⁴tn Heb “servants.”

⁵tn Heb “Do what is good in your eyes.”

⁶tn Heb “the gate of Sur” (followed by many English versions) but no such gate is mentioned elsewhere in the OT. The parallel account in 2 Chr 23:5 has “Foundation Gate.” סוּר (sur), “Sur,” may be a corruption of יְסוֹד (yÿsod) “foundation,” involving in part dalet-resh confusion.

⁷tn Heb “the runners.”

⁸tn The meaning of מַסָּח (massakh) is not certain. The translation above, rather than understanding it as a genitive modifying “house,” takes it as an adverb describing how the groups will guard the palace. See HALOT 605 s.v. מַסָּח for the proposed meaning “alternating” (i.e., “in turns”).

⁹tn Or “you have indeed defeated Edom.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and your heart has lifted you up.”

¹¹tn Heb “be glorified.”

¹²tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”

¹³tn Heb “the sons of the pledges.”

¹⁴map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

¹⁵tn Heb “and he struck him down in Samaria in the fortress of the house of the king, Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men from the sons of the Gileadites, and they killed him.”

sn The precise identity of Argob and Arieh, as well as their relationship to the king, are uncertain. The usual assumption is that they were officials assassinated along with Pekahiah, or that they were two of the more prominent Gileadites involved in the revolt. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 173.

¹⁶tn Heb “that was found.”

¹⁷tn Or “bribe money.”

¹⁸sn As a sign of grief and mourning.

¹⁹tn Heb “days are.”