2 Kings 10:6

10:6 He wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are really on my side and are willing to obey me, ¹  then take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me in Jezreel at this time tomorrow.” ²  Now the king had seventy sons, and the prominent ³  men of the city were raising them.

2 Kings 23:3

23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed ⁴  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ⁵  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ⁶  by carrying out the terms ⁷  of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. ⁸ 

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ⁹  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ¹⁰  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ¹¹  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 ¹²  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[10:6]  ¹ tn Heb “If you are mine and you are listening to my voice.”

[10:6]  ² sn Jehu’s command is intentionally vague. Does he mean that they should bring the guardians (those who are “heads” over Ahab’s sons) for a meeting, or does he mean that they should bring the literal heads of Ahab’s sons with them? (So LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and some mss of the Targum) The city leaders interpret his words in the literal sense, but Jehu’s command is so ambiguous he is able to deny complicity in the executions (see v. 9).

[10:6]  ³ tn Heb “great,” probably in wealth, position, and prestige.

[23:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

[23:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “walk after.”

[23:3]  ⁶ tn Or “soul.”

[23:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “words.”

[23:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”

[23:24]  ⁷ 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.

[23:24]  ⁸ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁹ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”