(וארחתו ארחת תמיד);35 (3) through passivization of the verb it is made the grammatical subject of this final sentence in the episode.36 This last grammatical subject in the text of Kings thus encapsulates the final point toward which the whole history of monarchy in the book has led. Outside of this text and its parallel, Jer 52:34, the term ארחה occurs in the Hebrew Bible only in Jer 40:5 and Prov 15:17.37 The former text has some interesting analogues with our present passage. In Jer 40:1–6 the