Discovery Box2 Kings 23:3 
Context23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed 1 the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow 2 the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, 3 by carrying out the terms 4 of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. 5
2 Kings 23:24
Context23:24 Josiah also got rid of 6 the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, 7 the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, 8 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 9 recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.
1 tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”
2 tn Heb “walk after.”
3 tn Or “soul.”
4 tn Heb “words.”
5 tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”
6 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.
7 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.
8 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
9 tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”
