2 Kings 3:13

3:13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? ¹  Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

2 Kings 11:4

11:4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned ²  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians ³  and the royal bodyguard. ⁴  He met with them ⁵  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement ⁶  with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

2 Kings 12:7

12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.” ⁷ 

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¹ tn Or “What do we have in common?” The text reads literally, “What to me and to you?”

² tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

³ sn The Carians were apparently a bodyguard, probably comprised of foreigners. See HALOT 497 s.v. כָּרִי and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 126.

⁴ tn Heb “the runners.”

⁵ tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

⁶ tn Or “covenant.”

⁷ tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”