2 Kings 12:1

12:1 (12:2) In Jehu’s seventh year Jehoash became king; he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. ¹  His mother was Zibiah, who was from Beer Sheba.

2 Kings 23:8

23:8 He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined ²  the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. ³  He tore down the high place of the goat idols ⁴  situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

[12:1]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[23:8]  ² tn Heb “defiled; desecrated,” that is, “made ritually unclean and unusable.”

[23:8]  ³ sn These towns marked Judah’s northern and southern borders, respectively, at the time of Josiah.

[23:8]  ⁴ tc The Hebrew text reads “the high places of the gates,” which is problematic in that the rest of the verse speaks of a specific gate. The translation assumes an emendation to בָּמוֹת הַשְּׁעָרִים (bamot hashÿ’arim), “the high place of the goats” (that is, goat idols). Worship of such images is referred to in Lev 17:7 and 2 Chr 11:15. For a discussion of the textual issue, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 286-87.