2 Kings 11:2

11:2 So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked ¹  him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. ²  So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution. ³ 

2 Kings 11:9

11:9 The officers of the units of hundreds did just as ⁴  Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported ⁵  to Jehoiada the priest.

2 Kings 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ⁶  of the king’s advisers ⁷  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ⁸  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

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¹ tn Heb “stole.”

² tn Heb “him and his nurse in an inner room of beds.” The verb is missing in the Hebrew text. The parallel passage in 2 Chr 22:11 has “and she put” at the beginning of the clause. M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 126) regard the Chronicles passage as an editorial attempt to clarify the difficulty of the original text. They prefer to take “him and his nurse” as objects of the verb “stole” and understand “in the bedroom” as the place where the royal descendants were executed. The phrase בַּחֲדַר הַמִּטּוֹת (bakhadar hammittot), “an inner room of beds,” is sometimes understood as referring to a bedroom (HALOT 293 s.v. חֶדֶר), though some prefer to see here a “room where the covers and cloths were kept for the beds (HALOT 573 s.v. מִטָּת). In either case, it may have been a temporary hideout, for v. 3 indicates that the child hid in the temple for six years.

³ tn Heb “and they hid him from Athaliah and he was not put to death.” The subject of the plural verb (“they hid”) is probably indefinite.

⁴ tn Heb “according to all that.”

⁵ tn Heb “came.”

⁶ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

⁷ tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

⁸ tn Heb “the people of the land.”