Discovery Box2 Kings 22:14
Context22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe. 1 (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh 2 district.) They stated their business, 3
2 Kings 23:13
Context23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 4 that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.
2 Kings 23:24
Context23:24 Josiah also got rid of 5 the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, 6 the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, 7 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 8 recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 23:30
Context23:30 His servants transported his dead body 9 from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, 10 and made him king in his father’s place.
[22:14] 1 tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”
[22:14] 2 tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.
[22:14] 3 tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”
[23:13] 4 sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.
[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.”
