Discovery Box2 Kings 17:29 
Context17:29 But each of these nations made 1 its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria 2 had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.
2 Kings 23:9
Context23:9 (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.) 3
2 Kings 23:13
Context23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 4 that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.
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. 5 He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. 6
1 sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.
2 tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.
3 tn Heb “their brothers.”
4 sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.
5 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.
6 tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”
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