2 Kings 23:3

23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed ¹  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ²  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ³  by carrying out the terms ⁴  of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. ⁵ 

2 Kings 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ⁶  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ⁷  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ⁸  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 ⁹  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

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¹ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

² tn Heb “walk after.”

³ tn Or “soul.”

⁴ tn Heb “words.”

⁵ tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”

⁶ 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.

⁷ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

⁸ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

⁹ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”