Discovery Box2 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.” 1
2 Kings 12:9
Context12:9 Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of 2 the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord’s temple.
2 Kings 16:15
Context16:15 King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest, “On the large altar 3 offer the morning burnt sacrifice, the evening grain offering, the royal burnt sacrifices and grain offering, the burnt sacrifice for all the people of Israel, their grain offering, and their libations. Sprinkle all the blood of the burnt sacrifice and other sacrifices on it. The bronze altar will be for my personal use.” 4
2 Kings 22:14
Context22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shullam son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the supervisor of the wardrobe. 5 (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh 6 district.) They stated their business, 7
2 Kings 23:4
Context23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, 8 and the guards 9 to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of 10 Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. 11 The king 12 burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces 13 of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 14
2 Kings 23:24
Context23:24 Josiah also got rid of 15 the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, 16 the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, 17 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 18 recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.
1 tn Heb “Now, do not take silver from your treasurers, because for the damages to the temple you must give it.”
2 tn Heb “on the right side of the altar as a man enters.”
3 tn That is, the newly constructed altar.
4 tn Heb “for me to seek.” The precise meaning of בָּקַר (baqar), “seek,” is uncertain in this context. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189.
5 tn Heb “the keeper of the clothes.”
6 tn Or “second.” For a discussion of the possible location of this district, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 283.
7 tn Heb “and they spoke to her.”
8 tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.
9 tn Or “doorkeepers.”
10 tn Heb “for.”
11 tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.
14 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
15 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.
16 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.
17 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
18 tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”
