Discovery Box2 Kings 10:25 
Context10:25 When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard 1 and officers, “Come in and strike them down! Don’t let any escape!” So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there. 2 Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal. 3
2 Kings 11:19
Context11:19 He took the officers of the units of hundreds, the Carians, the royal bodyguard, and all the people of land, and together they led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Gate of the Royal Bodyguard, 4 and the king 5 sat down on the royal throne.
2 Kings 12:7
Context12:7 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.” 6
2 Kings 12:18
Context12:18 King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all 7 to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew 8 from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 20:5
Context20:5 “Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. The day after tomorrow 9 you will go up to the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 23:4
Context23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, 10 and the guards 11 to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of 12 Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. 13 The king 14 burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces 15 of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 16
2 Kings 23:11-12
Context23:11 He removed from the entrance to the Lord’s temple the statues of horses 17 that the kings of Judah had placed there in honor of the sun god. (They were kept near the room of Nathan Melech the eunuch, which was situated among the courtyards.) 18 He burned up the chariots devoted to the sun god. 19 23:12 The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He crushed them up 20 and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.
2 Kings 23:24
Context23:24 Josiah also got rid of 21 the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, 22 the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, 23 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 24 recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 25:16
Context25:16 The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord’s temple – including the two pillars, the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” 25 and the movable stands – was too heavy to be weighed.
1 tn Heb “runners.”
2 tn Heb “and they threw.” No object appears. According to M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 116), this is an idiom for leaving a corpse unburied.
3 tn Heb “and they came to the city of the house of Baal.” It seems unlikely that a literal city is meant. Some emend עִיר (’ir), “city,” to דְּבִיר (dÿvir) “holy place,” or suggest that עִיר is due to dittography of the immediately preceding עַד (’ad) “to.” Perhaps עִיר is here a technical term meaning “fortress” or, more likely, “inner room.”
4 tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”
7 tn The object (“it all”) is supplied in the translation for clarification.
8 tn Heb “went up.”
9 tn Heb “on the third day.”
10 tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.
11 tn Or “doorkeepers.”
12 tn Heb “for.”
13 tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).
14 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15 tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.
16 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
17 tn The MT simply reads “the horses.” The words “statues of” have been supplied in the translation for clarity.
18 tn Heb “who/which was in the […?].” The meaning of the Hebrew term פַּרְוָרִים (parvarim), translated here “courtyards,” is uncertain. The relative clause may indicate where the room was located or explain who Nathan Melech was, “the eunuch who was in the courtyards.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 288-89, who translate “the officer of the precincts.”
19 tn Heb “and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire.”
20 tc The MT reads, “he ran from there,” which makes little if any sense in this context. Some prefer to emend the verbal form (Qal of רוּץ [ruts], “run”) to a Hiphil of רוּץ with third plural suffix and translate, “he quickly removed them” (see BDB 930 s.v. רוּץ, and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings [AB], 289). The suffix could have been lost in MT by haplography (note the mem [מ] that immediately follows the verb on the form מִשֳׁם, misham, “from there”). Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to emend the verb to a Piel of רָצַץ (ratsats), “crush,” with third plural suffix.
21 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.
22 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.
23 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
24 tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”
25 tc The MT lacks “the twelve bronze bulls under ‘the Sea,’” but these words have probably been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. The scribe’s eye may have jumped from the וְהָ (vÿha-) on וְהַבָּקָר (vÿhabbaqar), “and the bulls,” to the וְהָ on וְהַמְּכֹנוֹת (vÿhammÿkhonot), “and the movable stands,” causing him to leave out the intervening words. See the parallel passage in Jer 52:20.
