Discovery Box2 Kings 3:8 
Context3:8 He then asked, “Which invasion route are we going to take?” 1 Jehoram 2 answered, “By the road through the Desert of Edom.”
2 Kings 3:12
Context3:12 Jehoshaphat said, “The Lord speaks through him.” 3 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to visit him.
2 Kings 3:26
Context3:26 When the king of Moab realized he was losing the battle, 4 he and 700 swordsmen tried to break through and attack 5 the king of Edom, but they failed.
2 Kings 4:9
Context4:9 She said to her husband, “Look, I’m sure 6 that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet. 7
2 Kings 6:9
Context6:9 But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, “Make sure you don’t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.”
2 Kings 11:16
Context11:16 They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. 8 There she was executed.
2 Kings 14:27
Context14:27 The Lord had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory 9 from under heaven, 10 so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.
2 Kings 23:10
Context23:10 The king 11 ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. 12
1 tn Heb “Where is the road we will go up?”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “the word of the
4 tn Heb “and the king of Moab saw that the battle was too strong for him.”
5 tn Heb “he took with him seven hundred men, who drew the sword, to break through against.”
6 tn Heb “I know.”
7 tn Heb “holy man of God.”
8 tn Heb “and they placed hands on her, and she went the way of the entrance of the horses [into] the house of the king.”
9 tn Heb “name.”
10 tn The phrase “from under heaven” adds emphasis to the verb “blot out” and suggest total annihilation. For other examples of the verb מָחָה (makhah), “blot out,” combined with “from under heaven,” see Exod 17:14; Deut 9:14; 25:19; 29:20.
11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.
