2 Kings 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.”¹

2 Kings 12:9

12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of² the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 16:15

16:15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, “On the large altar³ 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.”⁴

2 Kings 22:14

22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe.⁵ (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh⁶ district.) They stated their business,⁷

2 Kings 23:4

23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests,⁸ and the guards⁹ to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of¹⁰ Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky.¹¹ The king¹² burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces¹³ of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.¹⁴

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of¹⁵ the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits,¹⁶ the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images,¹⁷ 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 law¹⁸ recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

¹tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”

²tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”

³tn That is, the newly constructed altar.

⁴tn 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.

⁵tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”

⁶tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.

⁷tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”

⁸tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.

⁹tn Or “doorkeepers.”

¹⁰tn Heb “for.”

¹¹tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).

¹²tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.

¹⁴map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

¹⁵tn 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.

¹⁶sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

¹⁷sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

¹⁸tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”