2 Kings 19:15
19:15 Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: “Lord God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubs! 1 You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky 2 and the earth.
2 Kings 23:13
23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 3 that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.
1 sn This refers to the cherub images that were above the ark of the covenant.
2 tn Or “the heavens.”
3 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.