2 Kings 22:11

22:11 When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

2 Kings 17:37

17:37 You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

2 Kings 10:31

10:31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel. ¹  He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit. ² 

2 Kings 22:8

22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.

2 Kings 23:25

23:25 No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses. ³ 

2 Kings 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship ⁴  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave ⁵  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

2 Kings 17:13

17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” ⁶ 

2 Kings 8:27

8:27 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of ⁷  the Lord, like Ahab’s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab’s family. ⁸ 

2 Kings 14:6

14:6 But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, ⁹  “Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do, ¹⁰  and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do. ¹¹  A man must be put to death only for his own sin.” ¹² 

2 Kings 21:8

21:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, ¹³  provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ¹⁴  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ¹⁵  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ¹⁶  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 ¹⁷  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 17:27

17:27 So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you ¹⁸  deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 17:26

17:26 The king of Assyria was told, ²⁰  “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people ²¹  because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.”

2 Kings 23:21

23:21 The king ordered all the people, “Observe the Passover of the Lord your God, as prescribed in this scroll of the covenant.”

2 Kings 11:12

11:12 Jehoiada ²²  led out the king’s son and placed on him the crown and the royal insignia. ²³  They proclaimed him king and poured olive oil on his head. ²⁴  They clapped their hands and cried out, “Long live the king!”

2 Kings 23:2

23:2 The king went up to the Lord’s temple, accompanied by all the people of Judah, all the residents of Jerusalem, the priests, and the prophets. All the people were there, from the youngest to the oldest. He read aloud ²⁵  all the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[10:31]  ¹ tn Heb “But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart.”

[10:31]  ² tn Heb “He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.”

[23:25]  ¹ tn Heb “and like him there was not a king before him who returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his being according to all the law of Moses, and after him none arose like him.”

[17:34]  ¹ tn Heb “fear.”

[17:34]  ² tn Heb “commanded.”

[17:13]  ¹ tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”

[8:27]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[8:27]  ² tn Heb “and he walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for he was a relative by marriage of the house of Ahab.” For this use of חֲתַן (khatan), normally “son-in-law,” see HALOT 365 s.v. חָתָן. Ahab was Ahaziah’s grandfather on his mother’s side.

[14:6]  ¹ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

[14:6]  ² tn Heb “on account of sons.”

[14:6]  ³ tn Heb “on account of fathers.”

[14:6]  ⁴ sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.

[21:8]  ¹ tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”

[23:24]  ¹ 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]  ² sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ³ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”

[17:27]  ¹ tc The second plural subject may refer to the leaders of the Assyrian army. However, some prefer to read “whom I deported,” changing the verb to a first person singular form with a third masculine plural pronominal suffix. This reading has some support from Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic witnesses.

[17:27]  ² tc Heb “and let them go and let them live there, and let him teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” The two plural verbs seem inconsistent with the preceding and following contexts, where only one priest is sent back to Samaria. The singular has the support of Greek, Syriac, and Latin witnesses.

[17:26]  ¹ tn Heb “and they said to the king of Assyria, saying.” The plural subject of the verb is indefinite.

[17:26]  ² tn Heb “Look they are killing them.”

[11:12]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:12]  ² tn The Hebrew term עֵדוּת (’edut) normally means “witness” or “testimony.” Here it probably refers to some tangible symbol of kingship, perhaps a piece of jewelry such as an amulet or neck chain. See the discussion in M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 128. Some suggest that a document is in view, perhaps a copy of the royal protocol or of the stipulations of the Davidic covenant. See HALOT 790-91 s.v. עֵדוּת.

[11:12]  ³ tn Or “they made him king and anointed him.”

[23:2]  ¹ tn Heb “read in their ears.”