2 Kings 8:29

8:29 King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ¹  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. King Ahaziah son of Jehoram of Judah went down to visit ²  Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill.

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ³  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ⁴  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ⁵  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 ⁶  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 ⁷  of the king’s advisers ⁸  who were discovered in the city, an official army secretary who drafted citizens ⁹  for military service, and sixty citizens from the people of the land who were discovered in the city.

[8:29]  ¹ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

[8:29]  ² tn Heb “to see.”

[23:24]  ³ 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]  ⁴ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁵ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”

[25:19]  ⁵ tn The parallel passage in Jer 52:25 has “seven.”

[25:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “five seers of the king’s face.”

[25:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “the people of the land.”