Discovery Box2 Kings 12:12 
Context12:12 as well as masons and stonecutters. They bought wood and chiseled stone to repair the damage to the Lord’s temple and also paid for all the other expenses. 1
2 Kings 23:19
Context23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. 2 He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. 3
2 Kings 23:27
Context23:27 The Lord announced, “I will also spurn Judah, 4 just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose – both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, “I will live there.” 5
1 tn Heb “and for all that which was going out concerning the house for repair.”
2 tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.
3 tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”
map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
4 tn Heb “Also Judah I will turn away from my face.”
5 tn Heb “My name will be there.”
