Discovery Box2 Kings 10:27 
Context10:27 They demolished 1 the sacred pillar of Baal and 2 the temple of Baal; it is used as 3 a latrine 4 to this very day.
2 Kings 11:3
Context11:3 He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple 5 for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.
2 Kings 11:7
Context11:7 The two units who are off duty on the Sabbath will guard the Lord’s temple and protect the king. 6
2 Kings 11:10
Context11:10 The priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and the shields that were kept in the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 12:6
Context12:6 By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.
2 Kings 12:13
Context12:13 The silver brought to the Lord’s temple was not used for silver bowls, trimming shears, basins, trumpets, or any kind of gold or silver implements.
2 Kings 12:16
Context12:16 (The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)
2 Kings 16:18
Context16:18 He also removed the Sabbath awning 7 that had been built 8 in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria. 9
2 Kings 19:14
Context19:14 Hezekiah took the letter 10 from the messengers and read it. 11 Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.
2 Kings 23:7
Context23:7 He tore down the quarters 12 of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines 13 for Asherah.
2 Kings 25:9
Context25:9 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. 14
1 tn Or “pulled down.”
2 tn The verb “they demolished” is repeated in the Hebrew text.
3 tn Heb “and they made it into.”
4 tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has the hapax legomenon מַחֲרָאוֹת (makhara’ot), “places to defecate” or “dung houses” (note the related noun חרא (khr’)/חרי (khri), “dung,” HALOT 348-49 s.v. *חֲרָאִים). The marginal reading (Qere) glosses this, perhaps euphemistically, מוֹצָאוֹת (motsa’ot), “outhouses.”
5 tn Heb “and he was with her [in] the house of the
6 tn Verses 5b-7 read literally, “the third of you, the ones entering [on] the Sabbath and the ones guarding the guard of the house of the king, and the third in the gate of Sur, and the third in the gate behind the runners, and you will guard the guard of the house, alternating. And the two units of you, all the ones going out [on] the Sabbath, and they will guard the guard of the house of the
7 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term מוּסַךְ (musakh; Qere) / מִיסַךְ (misakh; Kethib) is uncertain. For discussion see HALOT 557 s.v. מוּסַךְ and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189-90.
8 tn Heb “that they built.”
9 sn It is doubtful that Tiglath-pileser ordered these architectural changes. Ahaz probably made these changes so he could send some of the items and materials to the Assyrian king as tribute. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 190, 193.
10 tc The MT has the plural, “letters,” but the final mem is probably dittographic (note the initial mem on the form that immediately follows). Some Greek and Aramaic witnesses have the singular.
11 tc The MT has the plural suffix, “them,” but this probably reflects a later harmonization to the preceding textual corruption (of “letter” to “letters”). The parallel passage in Isa 37:14 has the singular suffix.
12 tn Or “cubicles.” Heb “houses.”
13 tn Heb “houses.” Perhaps tent-shrines made from cloth are in view (see BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת). M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 286) understand this as referring to clothes made for images of the goddess.
14 tn Heb “and every large house he burned down with fire.”
