17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” 1
23:24 Josiah also got rid of 2 the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, 3 the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, 4 and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law 5 recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.
1 tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”
2 tn Here בִּעֵר (bi’er) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.
3 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.
4 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
5 tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”