2 Kings 10:27

10:27 They demolished 1  the sacred pillar of Baal and 2  the temple of Baal; it is used as 3  a latrine 4  to this very day.

2 Kings 14:5

14:5 When he had secured control of the kingdom, 5  he executed the servants who had assassinated his father. 6 

2 Kings 22:11

22:11 When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

2 Kings 24:17

24:17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s 7  uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.

1 tn Or “pulled down.”

2 tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.

3 tn Heb “and they made it into.”

4 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”

5 tn Heb “when the kingdom was secure in his hand.”

6 tn Heb “he struck down his servants, the ones who had struck down the king, his father.”

9 tn Heb “his.”