Discovery Box2 Kings 9:8 
Context9:8 Ahab’s entire family will die. I 1 will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. 2
2 Kings 23:7
Context23:7 He tore down the quarters 3 of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines 4 for Asherah.
1 tc The LXX has the second person, “you.”
2 tn Heb “and I will cut off from Ahab those who urinate against a wall, [including both those who are] restrained and let free [or, ‘abandoned’] in Israel.” On the phrase וְעָצוּר וְעָזוּב (vÿ’atsur vÿ’azur, translated here “weak and incapacitated”) see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.
3 tn Or “cubicles.” Heb “houses.”
4 tn Heb “houses.” Perhaps tent-shrines made from cloth are in view (see BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת). M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 286) understand this as referring to clothes made for images of the goddess.
