Discovery Box2 Kings 19:18 
Context19:18 They have burned the gods of the nations, 1 for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them. 2
2 Kings 23:6
Context23:6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. 3 He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. 4
1 tn Heb “and they put their gods in the fire.”
2 tn Heb “so they destroyed them.”
3 tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”
4 tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”
tn The phrase “sons of the people” refers here to the common people (see BDB 766 s.v. עַם), as opposed to the upper classes who would have private tombs.
