2 Kings 7:9
Context7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. 1 If we wait until dawn, 2 we’ll be punished. 3 So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”
2 Kings 11:19
Context11:19 He took the officers of the units of hundreds, the Carians, the royal bodyguard, and all the people of land, and together they led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Gate of the Royal Bodyguard, 4 and the king 5 sat down on the royal throne.
2 Kings 12:18
Context12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all 6 to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew 7 from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 15:5
Context15:5 The Lord afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease 8 until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, 9 while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
2 Kings 20:13
Context20:13 Hezekiah welcomed 10 them and showed them his whole storehouse, with its silver, gold, spices, and high quality olive oil, as well as his armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom. 11
2 Kings 24:13
Context24:13 Nebuchadnezzar 12 took from there all the riches in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace. He removed all the gold items which King Solomon of Israel had made for the Lord’s temple, just as the Lord had warned.
1 tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”
2 tn Heb “the light of the morning.”
3 tn Heb “punishment will find us.”
4 tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.
7 tn Heb “went up.”
8 tn Traditionally, “he was a leper.” But see the note at 5:1.
9 tn The precise meaning of בֵית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhofÿshit), “house of […?],” is uncertain. For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.
10 tc Heb “listened to.” Some Hebrew
11 tn Heb “there was nothing which Hezekiah did not show them in his house and in all his kingdom.”
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Nebuchadnezzar) has been specified in the translation for clarity.