Discovery Box2 Kings 8:6 
Context8:6 The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. 1 The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, 2 “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”
2 Kings 21:6
Context21:6 He passed his son 3 through the fire 4 and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. 5 He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 6
1 tn Heb “and the king asked the woman and she told him.”
2 tn Heb “and he assigned to her an official, saying.”
3 tc The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.
4 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.
5 tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with conjurers.” The Hebrew אוֹב (’ov), “ritual pit,” refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov), “owner of a ritual pit.” See H. Hoffner, “Second millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967), 385-401.
6 tc Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the
