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2 Kings 23:23-25
New English Translation
2 Kings 23:23-25
New English Translation
23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the Lord was observed in Jerusalem.
24 Josiah also got rid of[a] the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits,[b] the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images,[c] 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[d] recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple. 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.[e]
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- 2 Kings 23:24 tn Here בִּעֵר (biʿer) is not the well attested verb “burn,” but the less common homonym meaning “devastate, sweep away, remove.” See HALOT 146 s.v. בער.
- 2 Kings 23:24 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6.
- 2 Kings 23:24 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
- 2 Kings 23:24 tn Heb “carrying out the words of the law.”
- 2 Kings 23:25 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.”sn The description of Josiah’s devotion as involving his whole “heart, soul, and being” echoes the language of Deut 6:5.
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