2 Kings 10:11

10:11 Then Jehu killed all who were left of Ahab’s family in Jezreel, and all his nobles, close friends, and priests. He left no survivors.

2 Kings 11:10

11:10 The priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and the shields that were kept in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 12:5-6

12:5 The priests should receive the silver they need from the treasurers and repair any damage to the temple they discover.” ¹ 

12:6 By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.

2 Kings 12:8

12:8 The priests agreed ²  not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs. ³ 

2 Kings 17:28

17:28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. ⁴  He taught them how to worship ⁵  the Lord.

2 Kings 17:32

17:32 At the same time they worshiped ⁶  the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. ⁷ 

2 Kings 19:2

19:2 He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, ⁸  clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

2 Kings 22:4

22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down ⁹  the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

2 Kings 22:10

22:10 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

2 Kings 23:9

23:9 (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.) ¹⁰ 

2 Kings 23:20

23:20 He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

[12:5]  ¹ tn Heb “Let the priests take for themselves, each from his treasurer, and let them repair the damage of the temple, with respect to all the damage that is found there.” The word מַכָּר (makar), translated here “treasurer,” occurs only in this passage. Some suggest it means “merchant” or “benefactor.” Its usage in Ugaritic texts, where it appears in a list of temple officials, suggests that it refers in this context to individuals who were in charge of disbursing temple funds.

[12:8]  ¹ tn Outside of this passage the verb אוּת (’ut) appears only in Gen 34:15-22.

[12:8]  ² tn Heb “and not to repair the damages to the temple.” This does not mean that the priests were no longer interested in repairing the temple. As the following context makes clear, the priests decided to hire skilled workers to repair the damage to the temple, rather than trying to make the repairs themselves.

[17:28]  ¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[17:28]  ² tn Heb “fear.”

[17:32]  ¹ tn Heb “feared.”

[17:32]  ² tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”

[19:2]  ¹ tn Heb “elders of the priests.”

[22:4]  ¹ tc The MT has וְיַתֵּם (vÿyattem), “and let them add up” (Hiphil of תָּמָם [tammam], “be complete”), but the appearance of הִתִּיכוּ (hitikhu), “they melted down” (Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh], “pour out”) in v. 9 suggests that the verb form should be emended to וְיַתֵּךְ (vÿyattekh), “and let him melt down” (a Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh]). For a discussion of this and other options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 281.

[23:9]  ¹ tn Heb “their brothers.”