2 Kings 6:26
Context6:26 While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, “Help us, my master, O king!”
2 Kings 8:2-3
Context8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. 1 She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years. 8:3 After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field. 2
2 Kings 8:18
Context8:18 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. 3 He did evil in the sight of 4 the Lord.
2 Kings 23:7
Context23:7 He tore down the quarters 5 of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines 6 for Asherah.


[8:2] 1 tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”
[8:3] 1 tn Heb “and went out to cry out to the king for her house and her field.”
[8:18] 1 tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”
[8:18] 2 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
[23:7] 1 tn Or “cubicles.” Heb “houses.”
[23:7] 2 tn Heb “houses.” Perhaps tent-shrines made from cloth are in view (see BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת). M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 286) understand this as referring to clothes made for images of the goddess.