2 Kings 15:29

15:29 During Pekah’s reign over Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, ¹  Gilead, and Galilee, including all the territory of Naphtali. He deported the people ²  to Assyria.

2 Kings 23:8

23:8 He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined ³  the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. ⁴  He tore down the high place of the goat idols ⁵  situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ⁶  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ⁷  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ⁸  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 ⁹  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 25:23

25:23 All of the officers of the Judahite army ¹⁰  and their troops heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah to govern. So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. The officers who came were Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite.

[15:29]  ¹ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[15:29]  ² tn Heb “them.”

[23:8]  ³ tn Heb “defiled; desecrated,” that is, “made ritually unclean and unusable.”

[23:8]  ⁴ sn These towns marked Judah’s northern and southern borders, respectively, at the time of Josiah.

[23:8]  ⁵ 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.

[23:24]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁷ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”

[25:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “of the army.” The word “Judahite” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.