Discovery Box2 Kings 11:6 
Context11:6 Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation 1 Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. 2 You will take turns guarding the palace. 3
2 Kings 12:6
Context12:6 By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.
2 Kings 20:8
Context20:8 Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple the day after tomorrow?”
1 tn 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.
2 tn Heb “the runners.”
3 tn 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”).
