2 Kings 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, ¹  “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Kings 10:19

10:19 So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. ²  None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them ³  so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

2 Kings 22:13

22:13 “Go, seek an oracle from ⁴  the Lord for me and the people – for all Judah. Find out about ⁵  the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord’s fury has been ignited against us, ⁶  because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this scroll by doing all that it instructs us to do.” ⁷ 

2 Kings 23:4

23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, ⁸  and the guards ⁹  to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of ¹⁰  Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. ¹¹  The king ¹²  burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces ¹³  of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).

² tn Heb “and now, all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests summon to me.”

³ tn Heb “acted with deception [or, ‘trickery’].”

³ tn Or “inquire of.”

⁴ tn Heb “concerning.”

⁵ tn Heb “for great is the anger of the Lord which has been ignited against us.”

⁶ tn Heb “by doing all that is written concerning us.” Perhaps עָלֵינוּ (’alenu), “concerning us,” should be altered to עָלָיו (’alav), “upon it,” in which case one could translate, “by doing all that is written in it.”

⁴ tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.

⁵ tn Or “doorkeepers.”

⁶ tn Heb “for.”

⁷ tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.

¹⁰ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.