translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: These towns marked Judah’s northern and southern borders, respectively, at the time of Josiah.


text: Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ . For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek , and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament .


text: This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה ( mashÿkhah ), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית ( mashÿkhit ), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.


text: See the note at 2 Kgs 21:6 .


text: See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12 .