2 Kings 23:24

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.

Ge 31:19; Le 19:31; Le 20:27; De 18:10-12; Jud 17:5; Jud 18:17,18; 1Sa 28:3-7; 2Ki 21:3,6; 2Ki 22:8-13; 2Ch 34:14-19; Isa 8:19; Isa 8:20; Isa 19:3; Ho 3:4; Ac 16:16-18; Ro 3:20; Jas 1:25; Re 22:15

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.”