2 Kings 14:3

14:3 He did what the Lord approved, ¹  but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash. ² 

2 Kings 14:5

14:5 When he had secured control of the kingdom, ³  he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. ⁴ 

2 Kings 25:30

25:30 He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died. ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “according to all which Joash his father had done, he did.”

³ tn Heb “when the kingdom was secure in his hand.”

⁴ tn Heb “he struck down his servants, the ones who had struck down the king, his father.”

⁵ tc The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34. Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav (ו) on בְּיוֹמוֹ (bÿyomo), “in his day,” to the final vav (ו) on מוֹתוֹ (moto), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.