2 Kings 10:21

10:21 Jehu sent invitations throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one was absent. They arrived at the temple of Baal and filled it up from end to end. ¹ 

2 Kings 10:23

10:23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu ²  said to the servants of Baal, “Make sure there are no servants of the Lord here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.” ³ 

2 Kings 12:10

12:10 When they saw the chest was full of silver, the royal secretary ⁴  and the high priest counted the silver that had been brought to the Lord’s temple and bagged it up. ⁵ 

2 Kings 12:12

12:12 as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses. ⁶ 

2 Kings 14:14

14:14 He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages. ⁷  Then he went back to Samaria. ⁸ 

(

2 Kings 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 Kings 16:8

16:8 Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were ⁹  in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute ¹⁰  to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:16

18:16 At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts which he had plated ¹¹  and gave them to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19:37

19:37 One day, ¹²  as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, ¹³  his sons ¹⁴  Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. ¹⁵  They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

2 Kings 20:8

20:8 Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What is the confirming sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple the day after tomorrow?”

2 Kings 22:3-4

22:3 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders: ¹⁶  22:4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him melt down ¹⁷  the silver that has been brought by the people to the Lord’s temple and has been collected by the guards at the door.

2 Kings 22:8

22:8 Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, “I found the law scroll in the Lord’s temple.” Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.

2 Kings 23:6

23:6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. ¹⁸  He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. ¹⁹ 

2 Kings 23:27

23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah, ²⁰  just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.” ²¹ 

2 Kings 25:13

25:13 The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord’s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the “The Sea.” ²²  They took the bronze to Babylon.

---

¹ tn Heb “and the house of Baal was filled mouth to mouth.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “Search carefully and observe so that there are not here with you any servants of the Lord, only the servants of Baal.”

⁴ tn Heb “the king’s scribe.”

⁵ tn Heb “went up and tied [it] and counted the silver that was found in the house of the Lord.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make better sense in English, since it seems more logical to count the money before bagging it (cf. NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

⁶ tn Heb “and for all that which was going out concerning the house for repair.”

⁷ tn Heb “the sons of the pledges.”

⁸ map For location see Map2-B1; Map4-D3; Map5-E2; Map6-A4; Map7-C1.

⁹ tn Heb “that was found.”

¹⁰ tn Or “bribe money.”

¹¹ tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the Lord’s temple, and the posts which Hezekiah king of Judah had plated.”

¹² sn The assassination probably took place in 681 b.c.

¹³ sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name is a corruption of Nusku.

¹⁴ tc Although “his sons” is absent in the Kethib, it is supported by the Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions. Cf. Isa 37:38.

¹⁵ sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.

¹⁶ tn Heb “with these orders, saying.”

¹⁷ tc The MT has וְיַתֵּם (vÿyattem), “and let them add up” (Hiphil of תָּמָם [tammam], “be complete”), but the appearance of הִתִּיכוּ (hitikhu), “they melted down” (Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh], “pour out”) in v. 9 suggests that the verb form should be emended to וְיַתֵּךְ (vÿyattekh), “and let him melt down” (a Hiphil of נָתַךְ [natakh]). For a discussion of this and other options see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 281.

¹⁸ tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

¹⁹ tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”

tn The phrase “sons of the people” refers here to the common people (see BDB 766 s.v. עַם), as opposed to the upper classes who would have private tombs.

²⁰ tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”

²¹ tn Heb “My name will be there.”

²² sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.