2 Raja-raja 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ²  and how I have carried out your will.” ³  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 23:3

23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed ⁵  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ⁶  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ⁷  by carrying out the terms ⁸  of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. ⁹ 

2 Raja-raja 23:25

23:25 No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses. ¹⁰ 

[20:3]  ¹ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[20:3]  ² tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[20:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

[23:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

[23:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “walk after.”

[23:3]  ⁷ tn Or “soul.”

[23:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “words.”

[23:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”

[23:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and like him there was not a king before him who returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his being according to all the law of Moses, and after him none arose like him.”

[23:25]  sn The description of Josiah’s devotion as involving his whole “heart, soul, and being” echoes the language of Deut 6:5.