Discovery Box2 Kings 23:13 
Context23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 1 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 23:24
Context23:24 Josiah also got rid of 2 the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, 3 the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, 4 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 5 recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.
1 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.
2 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.
3 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.
4 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
5 tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”
