2 Raja-raja 14:22

14:22 Azariah ¹  built up Elat and restored it to Judah after the king ²  had passed away. ³ 

2 Raja-raja 3:22

3:22 When they got up early the next morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites, who were some distance away, the water looked red like blood.

2 Raja-raja 16:11

16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. ⁴  Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. ⁵ 

2 Raja-raja 15:35

15:35 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple.

2 Raja-raja 22:6

22:6 including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work. ⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 12:11

12:11 They would then hand over ⁷  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ⁸  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

2 Raja-raja 21:3

21:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ⁹  and worshiped ¹⁰  them.

2 Raja-raja 8:21

8:21 Joram ¹¹  crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers. ¹²  The Israelite army retreated to their homeland. ¹³ 

2 Raja-raja 6:15

6:15 The prophet’s ¹⁴  attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, ¹⁵  “Oh no, my master! What will we do?”

2 Raja-raja 21:4

21:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my home.” ¹⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 16:18

16:18 He also removed the Sabbath awning ¹⁷  that had been built ¹⁸  in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria. ¹⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 17:9

17:9 The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. ²⁰  They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. ²¹ 

2 Raja-raja 4:31

4:31 Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child’s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha ²²  he told him, “The child did not wake up.”

2 Raja-raja 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, ²³  “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

2 Raja-raja 23:13

23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, ²⁴  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 Raja-raja 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ²⁵  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ²⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 21:5

21:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

2 Raja-raja 23:11

23:11 He removed from the entrance to the Lord’s temple the statues of horses ²⁷  that the kings of Judah had placed there in honor of the sun god. (They were kept near the room of Nathan Melech the eunuch, which was situated among the courtyards.) ²⁸  He burned up the chariots devoted to the sun god. ²⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 1:15

1:15 The Lord’s angelic messenger said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down ³⁰  with him to the king.

2 Raja-raja 12:14

12:14 It was handed over ³¹  to the foremen who used it to repair the Lord’s temple.

2 Raja-raja 13:21

13:21 One day some men ³²  were burying a man when they spotted ³³  a raiding party. So they threw the dead man ³⁴  into Elisha’s tomb. When the body ³⁵  touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man ³⁶  came to life and stood on his feet.

2 Raja-raja 1:4

1:4 Therefore this is what the Lord says, “You will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die!”’” So Elijah went on his way.

2 Raja-raja 4:30

4:30 The mother of the child said, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So Elisha ³⁷  got up and followed her back.

2 Raja-raja 7:5

7:5 So they started toward ³⁸  the Syrian camp at dusk. When they reached the edge of the Syrian camp, there was no one there.

2 Raja-raja 7:7

7:7 So they got up and fled at dusk, leaving behind their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

2 Raja-raja 8:2

8:2 So the woman did as the prophet said. ³⁹  She and her family went and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

2 Raja-raja 19:35

19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they ⁴⁰  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. ⁴¹ 

2 Raja-raja 12:20

12:20 His servants conspired against him ⁴²  and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla. ⁴³ 

2 Raja-raja 11:1

Athaliah is Eliminated

11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. ⁴⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 12:3

12:3 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

2 Raja-raja 12:15

12:15 They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed ⁴⁵  the funds to the foremen, for they were honest. ⁴⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 14:4

14:4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

2 Raja-raja 15:4

15:4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

2 Raja-raja 18:8

18:8 He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from the watchtower to the city fortress. ⁴⁷ 

2 Raja-raja 19:27

19:27 I know where you live,

and everything you do. ⁴⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 22:7

22:7 Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest.” ⁴⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 1:3

1:3 But the Lord’s angelic messenger told Elijah the Tishbite, “Get up, go to meet the messengers from the king of Samaria. Say this to them: ‘You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are on your way to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub the god of Ekron. ⁵⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 8:1

Elisha Again Helps the Shunammite Woman

8:1 Now Elisha advised the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “You and your family should go and live somewhere else for a while, ⁵¹  for the Lord has decreed that a famine will overtake the land for seven years.”

2 Raja-raja 9:17

9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu’s troops approaching. ⁵²  He said, “I see troops!” ⁵³  Jehoram ordered, ⁵⁴  “Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, ‘Is everything all right?’” ⁵⁵ 

2 Raja-raja 12:4

12:4 Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal ⁵⁶  all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, ⁵⁷  the silver received from those who have made vows, ⁵⁸  and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple. ⁵⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 23:12

23:12 The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up ⁶⁰  and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

2 Raja-raja 23:19

23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. ⁶¹  He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. ⁶² 

2 Raja-raja 4:35

4:35 Elisha ⁶³  went back and walked around in the house. ⁶⁴  Then he got up on the bed again ⁶⁵  and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

2 Raja-raja 6:1

Elisha Makes an Ax Head Float

6:1 Some of the prophets ⁶⁶  said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you ⁶⁷  is too cramped ⁶⁸  for us.

2 Raja-raja 9:2

9:2 When you arrive there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi and take him aside into an inner room. ⁶⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 12:13

12:13 The silver brought to the Lord’s temple was not used for silver bowls, trimming shears, basins, trumpets, or any kind of gold or silver implements.

2 Raja-raja 12:19

12:19 The rest of the events of Joash’s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ⁷⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 22:5

22:5 Have them hand it over to the construction foremen ⁷¹  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it, ⁷² 

2 Raja-raja 1:6

1:6 They replied, ⁷³  “A man came up to meet us. He told us, “Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are sending for an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. ⁷⁴  Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.”’”

2 Raja-raja 1:16

1:16 Elijah ⁷⁵  said to the king, ⁷⁶  “This is what the Lord says, ‘You sent messengers to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. You must think there is no God in Israel from whom you can seek an oracle! ⁷⁷  Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.’” ⁷⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 3:24

3:24 When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites ⁷⁹  thoroughly defeated ⁸⁰  Moab.

2 Raja-raja 9:6

9:6 So Jehu ⁸¹  got up and went inside. Then the prophet ⁸²  poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I have designated you as king over the Lord’s people Israel.

2 Raja-raja 12:7

12:7 So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.” ⁸³ 

2 Raja-raja 19:32

19:32 So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:

“He will not enter this city,

nor will he shoot an arrow here. ⁸⁴ 

He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, ⁸⁵ 

nor will he build siege works against it.

2 Raja-raja 23:15

23:15 He also tore down the altar in Bethel ⁸⁶  at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. ⁸⁷  He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole. ⁸⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 23:25

23:25 No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses. ⁸⁹ 

[14:22]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Azariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:22]  ² sn This must refer to Amaziah.

[14:22]  ³ tn Heb “lay with his fathers.”

[16:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”

[16:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”

[22:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and to buy wood and chiseled stone to repair the house.”

[12:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “would give.”

[12:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[21:3]  ⁹ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:16.

[21:3]  ¹⁰ tn Or “served.”

[8:21]  ¹¹ sn Joram is a short form of the name Jehoram.

[8:21]  ¹² tn Heb “and he arose at night and defeated Edom, who had surrounded him, and the chariot officers.” The Hebrew text as it stands gives the impression that Joram was surrounded and launched a victorious night counterattack. It would then be quite natural to understand the last statement in the verse to refer to an Edomite retreat. Yet v. 22 goes on to state that the Edomite revolt was successful. Therefore, if the MT is retained, it may be better to understand the final statement in v. 21 as a reference to an Israelite retreat (made in spite of the success described in the preceding sentence). The translation above assumes an emendation of the Hebrew text. Adding a third masculine singular pronominal suffix to the accusative sign before Edom (reading אֶתוֹ [’eto], “him,” instead of just אֶת [’et]) and taking Edom as the subject of verbs allows one to translate the verse in a way that is more consistent with the context, which depicts an Israelite defeat, not victory. There is, however, no evidence for this emendation.

[8:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the people fled to their tents.”

[6:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “man of God’s.”

[6:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “his young servant said to him.”

[21:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “In Jerusalem I will place my name.”

[16:18]  ¹⁷ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term מוּסַךְ (musakh; Qere) / מִיסַךְ (misakh; Kethib) is uncertain. For discussion see HALOT 557 s.v. מוּסַךְ and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189-90.

[16:18]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “that they built.”

[16:18]  ¹⁹ sn It is doubtful that Tiglath-pileser ordered these architectural changes. Ahaz probably made these changes so he could send some of the items and materials to the Assyrian king as tribute. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 190, 193.

[17:9]  ²⁰ tn The meaning of the verb וַיְחַפְּאוּ (vayÿkhappÿ’u), translated here “said,” is uncertain. Some relate it to the verbal root חָפַה (khafah), “to cover,” and translate “they did it in secret” (see BDB 341 s.v. חָפָא). However, the pagan practices specified in the following sentences were hardly done in secret. Others propose a meaning “ascribe, impute,” which makes good contextual sense but has little etymological support (see HALOT 339 s.v. חפא). In this case Israel claimed that the Lord authorized their pagan practices.

[17:9]  ²¹ sn That is, from the city’s perimeter to the central citadel.

[4:31]  ²² tn Heb “to meet him.”

[7:12]  ²³ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).

[23:13]  ²⁴ 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.

[25:1]  ²⁵ tn Or “against.”

[25:1]  ²⁶ sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

[23:11]  ²⁷ tn The MT simply reads “the horses.” The words “statues of” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[23:11]  ²⁸ tn Heb “who/which was in the […?].” The meaning of the Hebrew term פַּרְוָרִים (parvarim), translated here “courtyards,” is uncertain. The relative clause may indicate where the room was located or explain who Nathan Melech was, “the eunuch who was in the courtyards.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 288-89, who translate “the officer of the precincts.”

[23:11]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire.”

[1:15]  ³⁰ sn In this third panel the verb “come down” (יָרַד, yarad) occurs again, this time describing Elijah’s descent from the hill at the Lord’s command. The moral of the story seems clear: Those who act as if they have authority over God and his servants just may pay for their arrogance with their lives; those who, like the third commander, humble themselves and show the proper respect for God’s authority and for his servants will be spared and find God quite cooperative.

[12:14]  ³¹ tn Heb “was given.”

[13:21]  ³² tn Heb “and it so happened [that] they.”

[13:21]  ³³ tn Heb “and look, they saw.”

[13:21]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the man”; the adjective “dead” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[13:21]  ³⁵ tn Heb “the man.”

[13:21]  ³⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the dead man) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Otherwise the reader might think it was Elisha rather than the unnamed dead man who came back to life.

[4:30]  ³⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The referent must be Elisha here, since the following verse makes it clear that Gehazi had gone on ahead of them.

[7:5]  ³⁸ tn Heb “they arose to go to.”

[8:2]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God.”

[19:35]  ⁴⁰ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[19:35]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”

[12:20]  ⁴² tn Heb “rose up and conspired [with] a conspiracy.”

[12:20]  ⁴³ tn Heb “Beth Millo which goes down [toward] Silla.”

[11:1]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum) “arise,” is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

[12:15]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “gave.”

[12:15]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “and they did not conduct a reckoning of the men who gave the silver into their hand to give to the doers of the work, for in honesty they were working.”

[18:8]  ⁴⁷ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:9.

[19:27]  ⁴⁸ tc Heb “your going out and your coming in.” The MT also has here, “and how you have raged against me.” However, this line is probably dittographic (note the beginning of the next line).

[22:7]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “only the silver that is given into their hand should not be reckoned with them, for in faithfulness they are acting.”

[1:3]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “Is it because there is no God in Israel [that] you are going to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?” The translation seeks to bring out the sarcastic tone of the rhetorical question.

[8:1]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “Get up and go, you and your house, and live temporarily where you can live temporarily.”

[9:17]  ⁵² tn Heb “the quantity [of the men] of Jehu, when he approached.” Elsewhere שִׁפְעַה (shif’ah), “quantity,” is used of a quantity of camels (Isa 60:6) or horses (Ezek 26:10) and of an abundance of water (Job 22:11; 38:34).

[9:17]  ⁵³ tn The term שִׁפְעַת (shifat) appears to be a construct form of the noun, but no genitive follows.

[9:17]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “said.”

[9:17]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “Get a rider and send [him] to meet him and let him ask, ‘Is there peace?’”

[12:4]  ⁵⁶ tn The words “I place at your disposal” are added in the translation for clarification.

[12:4]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “the silver of passing over a man.” The precise meaning of the phrase is debated, but עָבַר (’avar), “pass over,” probably refers here to counting, suggesting the reference is to a census conducted for taxation purposes. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.

[12:4]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “the silver of persons, his valuation.” The precise meaning of the phrase is uncertain, but parallels in Lev 27 suggest that personal vows are referred to here. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 137.

[12:4]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “all the silver which goes up on the heart of a man to bring to the house of the Lord.”

[23:12]  ⁶⁰ tc The MT reads, “he ran from there,” which makes little if any sense in this context. Some prefer to emend the verbal form (Qal of רוּץ [ruts], “run”) to a Hiphil of רוּץ with third plural suffix and translate, “he quickly removed them” (see BDB 930 s.v. רוּץ, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 289). The suffix could have been lost in MT by haplography (note the mem [מ] that immediately follows the verb on the form מִשֳׁם, misham, “from there”). Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to emend the verb to a Piel of רָצַץ (ratsats), “crush,” with third plural suffix.

[23:19]  ⁶¹ tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.

[23:19]  ⁶² tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”

[23:19]  map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[4:35]  ⁶³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:35]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “and he returned and went into the house, once here and once there.”

[4:35]  ⁶⁵ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[6:1]  ⁶⁶ tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”

[6:1]  ⁶⁷ tn Heb “sit before you.”

[6:1]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “narrow, tight.”

[9:2]  ⁶⁹ tn Heb “and go and set him apart from his brothers and bring him into an inner room in an inner room.”

[12:19]  ⁷⁰ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Joash, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[22:5]  ⁷¹ tn Heb “doers of the work.”

[22:5]  ⁷² tn Heb “and let them give it to the doers of the work who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages to the house.”

[1:6]  ⁷³ tn Heb “said to him.”

[1:6]  ⁷⁴ tn Heb “Is it because there is no God in Israel [that] you are sending to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron?” The translation seeks to bring out the sarcastic tone of the rhetorical question. In v. 3 the messengers are addressed (in the phrase “you are on your way” the second person plural pronoun is used in Hebrew), but here the king is addressed (in the phrase “you are sending” the second person singular pronoun is used).

[1:16]  ⁷⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:16]  ⁷⁶ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:16]  ⁷⁷ tn Heb “Because you sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is there no God in Israel to inquire of his word?”

[1:16]  ⁷⁸ sn For the third time in this chapter we read the Lord’s sarcastic question to king and the accompanying announcement of judgment. The repetition emphasizes one of the chapter’s main themes. Israel’s leaders should seek guidance from their own God, not a pagan deity, for Israel’s sovereign God is the one who controls life and death.

[3:24]  ⁷⁹ tn Heb “they.”

[3:24]  ⁸⁰ tc The consonantal text (Kethib) suggests, “and they went, striking down,” but the marginal reading (Qere) is “they struck down, striking down.” For a discussion of the textual problem, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 46.

[9:6]  ⁸¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:6]  ⁸² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:7]  ⁸³ tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”

[19:32]  ⁸⁴ tn Heb “there.”

[19:32]  ⁸⁵ tn Heb “[with] a shield.” By metonymy the “shield” stands for the soldier who carries it.

[23:15]  ⁸⁶ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[23:15]  ⁸⁷ tn Heb “And also the altar that is in Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin, also that altar and the high place he tore down.” The more repetitive Hebrew text is emphatic.

[23:15]  ⁸⁸ tn Heb “he burned the high place, crushing to dust, and he burned the Asherah pole.” High places per se are never referred to as being burned elsewhere. בָּמָה (bamah) here stands by metonymy for the combustible items located on the high place. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.

[23:25]  ⁸⁹ tn Heb “and like him there was not a king before him who returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his being according to all the law of Moses, and after him none arose like him.”

[23:25]  sn The description of Josiah’s devotion as involving his whole “heart, soul, and being” echoes the language of Deut 6:5.