2 Kings 23:3

23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed ¹  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ²  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ³  by carrying out the terms ⁴  of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. ⁵ 

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 25:19

25:19 From the city he took a eunuch who was in charge of the soldiers, five ¹⁰  of the king’s advisers ¹¹  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ¹²  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

[23:3]  ¹ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

[23:3]  ² tn Heb “walk after.”

[23:3]  ³ tn Or “soul.”

[23:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “words.”

[23:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”

[23:24]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁸ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”

[25:19]  ¹¹ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

[25:19]  ¹² tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

[25:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “the people of the land.”