2tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

3tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”

4tn Heb “wall of Ophel.” See HALOT 861 s.v. II עֹפֶל.

5tn Heb “he fought with.”

6tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the silver was 6,730 lbs. (3,060 kg).

7sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

8tn Heb “10,000 kors of wheat and 10,000 of barley.” The unit of measure of the barley is omitted in the Hebrew text, but is understood to be “kors,” the same as the measures of wheat.

9tn Heb “This the sons of Ammon brought to him, and in the second year and the third.”

10tn Heb “because he established his ways before the Lord his God.”

11tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jotham, and his battles and his ways, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah.”

12tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

13sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.