2 Kings 2:16

2:16 They said to him, “Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the Lord ¹  may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys.” But Elisha ²  replied, “Don’t send them out.”

2 Kings 23:4

23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, ³  and the guards ⁴  to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of ⁵  Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. ⁶  The king ⁷  burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces ⁸  of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. ⁹ 

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ¹⁰  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ¹¹  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ¹²  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 law ¹³  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

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¹ tn Or “the spirit of the Lord.”

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

³ tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.

⁴ tn Or “doorkeepers.”

⁵ tn Heb “for.”

⁶ tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.

⁹ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

¹⁰ tn 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.

¹¹ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

¹² sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

¹³ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”