2 Raja-raja 11:15

11:15 Jehoiada the priest ordered the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, ¹  “Bring her outside the temple to the guards. ²  Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple. ³ 

2 Raja-raja 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ⁴  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ⁵  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ⁶  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 ⁷  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[11:15]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text also has, “and said to them.” This is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[11:15]  ² tn Heb “ranks.”

[11:15]  ³ tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.’”

[23:24]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁶ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”