2 Raja-raja 16:10

16:10 When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. ¹  King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design. ² 

2 Raja-raja 23:24

23:24 Josiah also got rid of ³  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ⁴  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ⁵  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 ⁶  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

[16:10]  ¹ tn Heb “in Damascus.”

[16:10]  ² tn Heb “the likeness of the altar and its pattern for all its work.”

[23:24]  ³ 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.

[23:24]  ⁴ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.

[23:24]  ⁵ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”