2 Raja-raja 7:12

7:12 The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, ¹  “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 16:15

16:15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, “On the large altar ²  offer the morning burnt sacrifice, the evening grain offering, the royal burnt sacrifices and grain offering, the burnt sacrifice for all the people of Israel, their grain offering, and their libations. Sprinkle all the blood of the burnt sacrifice and other sacrifices on it. The bronze altar will be for my personal use.” ³ 

2 Raja-raja 17:13

17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” ⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 23:8

23:8 He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined ⁵  the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. ⁶  He tore down the high place of the goat idols ⁷  situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

[7:12]  ¹ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 13).

[16:15]  ² tn That is, the newly constructed altar.

[16:15]  ³ tn Heb “for me to seek.” The precise meaning of בָּקַר (baqar), “seek,” is uncertain in this context. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189.

[17:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”

[23:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “defiled; desecrated,” that is, “made ritually unclean and unusable.”

[23:8]  ⁶ sn These towns marked Judah’s northern and southern borders, respectively, at the time of Josiah.

[23:8]  ⁷ tc The Hebrew text reads “the high places of the gates,” which is problematic in that the rest of the verse speaks of a specific gate. The translation assumes an emendation to בָּמוֹת הַשְּׁעָרִים (bamot hashÿ’arim), “the high place of the goats” (that is, goat idols). Worship of such images is referred to in Lev 17:7 and 2 Chr 11:15. For a discussion of the textual issue, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 286-87.