2 Kings 9:14
9:14 Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.Jehu the Assassin
Now Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead with the whole Israelite army, 1 guarding against an invasion by King Hazael of Syria.
2 Kings 12:10-11
12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary 2 and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. 3
12:11 They would then hand over 4 the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen 5 assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,
2 Kings 23:22
23:22 He issued this edict because 6 a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah. 7
1 tn Heb “he and all Israel.”
2 tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”
3 tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).
4 tn Heb “would give.”
5 tn Heb “doers of the work.”
6 tn The Hebrew text has simply “because.” The translation attempts to reflect more clearly the logical connection between the king’s order and the narrator’s observation. Another option is to interpret כִּי (ki) as asseverative and translate, “indeed.”
7 tn Heb “because there had not been observed [one] like this Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel and all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.”