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