2 Kings 11:4

In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned ¹  the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians ²  and the royal bodyguard. ³  He met with them ⁴  in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement ⁵  with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son.

Ge 50:25; Jos 24:25; 1Sa 18:3; 1Sa 23:18; 1Ki 18:10; 2Ki 11:9; 2Ki 11:17; 2Ki 23:3; 1Ch 9:13; 2Ch 15:12; 2Ch 23:1-15; 2Ch 29:10; 2Ch 34:31,32; Ne 5:12; Ne 9:38; Ne 10:29; Ac 5:24,26

¹ tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”

² 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.

³ tn Heb “the runners.”

⁴ tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”

⁵ tn Or “covenant.”