the house of the LORD. The
Masoretic Text lacks “the house of,” but it appears in many Hebrew manuscripts
as well as in four different ancient versions. The nobles have been in the
palace, a plausible location for them, but when they hear of what has happened
in the temple court, they hasten there. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible,
3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:948)
