complete verse (2 Kings 11:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 11:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “Jehoiada was at that time a big priest in the Homestead of God. But/And in the seventh year with Athaliah ruling, he sent a message for the commanders of soldiers who guarded the king and commanders of other guards to gather. Those people came and gathered in the Homestead of God. Jehoiada told those people to swear that they would never reveal the secrets which he was going to reveal to them there in the Homestead of God. After that, he showed those people that son of the king.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “But during the seventh year, Jehoida the priest summoned the captains of the groups of on hundred, the Carites and captains of the palace guard and brought them to the temple of the LORD. He sealed a covenant with them. Then, having caused them to swear an oath in the temple, he showed them the King’s son.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “In the seventh year, Jehoyada the priest summoned the commanders of the bodyguards of the king and the guards of the palace to go to the temple of the LORD. He made a covenant with them and he had- them -swear there at the temple of the LORD. Afterwards, he showed to them the child of the king.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But during the next year, Jehoiada the Supreme Priest summoned the officers who supervised the royal bodyguards and the palace guards. He told them to come to the temple. There he required them to solemnly promise that they would do what he told them to do. And he showed King Ahaziah’s son Joash to them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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