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2 Kings 11:4-6
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2 Kings 11:4-6
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4 In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned[a] the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians[b] and the royal bodyguard.[c] He met with them[d] in the Lord’s temple. He made an agreement[e] with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the Lord’s temple. Then he showed them the king’s son. 5 He ordered them, “This is what you must do. One third of the unit that is on duty during the Sabbath will guard the royal palace. 6 Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation[f] Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard.[g] You will take turns guarding the palace.[h]
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- 2 Kings 11:4 tn Heb “Jehoiada sent and took.”
- 2 Kings 11:4 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.
- 2 Kings 11:4 tn Heb “the runners.”
- 2 Kings 11:4 tn Heb “he brought them to himself.”
- 2 Kings 11:4 tn Or “covenant.”
- 2 Kings 11:6 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 need to be emended to יְסוֹד (yesod) “foundation,” involving in part dalet-resh confusion.
- 2 Kings 11:6 tn Heb “the runners.”
- 2 Kings 11:6 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”).
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