2 Chronicles 28:24

28:24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:4

34:4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, ¹  and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

2 Chronicles 34:7

34:7 he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 34:2

34:2 He did what the Lord approved ²  and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; ³  he did not deviate to the right or the left.

2 Chronicles 18:22

18:22 So now, look, the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the Lord has decreed disaster for you.”

2 Chronicles 23:12-13

23:12 When Athaliah heard the royal guard ⁴  shouting and praising the king, she joined the crowd ⁵  at the Lord’s temple. 23:13 Then she saw ⁶  the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters stood beside the king and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets, and the musicians with various instruments were leading the celebration. Athaliah tore her clothes and yelled, “Treason! Treason!” ⁷ 

Isaiah 2:18-20

2:18 The worthless idols will be completely eliminated. ⁸ 

2:19 They ⁹  will go into caves in the rocky cliffs

and into holes in the ground, ¹⁰ 

trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord ¹¹ 

and his royal splendor,

when he rises up to terrify the earth. ¹² 

2:20 At that time ¹³  men will throw

their silver and gold idols,

which they made for themselves to worship, ¹⁴ 

into the caves where rodents and bats live, ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”

² tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

³ tn Heb “and walked in the ways of David his father.”

⁴ tn Heb “and Athaliah heard the sound of the people, the runners.”

⁵ tn Heb “she came to the people.”

⁶ tn Heb “and she saw, and behold.”

⁷ tn Or “Conspiracy! Conspiracy!”

⁸ tc The verb “pass away” is singular in the Hebrew text, despite the plural subject (“worthless idols”) that precedes. The verb should be emended to a plural; the final vav (ו) has been accidentally omitted by haplography (note the vav at the beginning of the immediately following form).

⁹ tn The identity of the grammatical subject is unclear. The “idols” could be the subject; they will “go” into the caves and holes when the idolaters throw them there in their haste to escape God’s judgment (see vv. 20-21). The picture of the idols, which represent the foreign deities worshiped by the people, fleeing from the Lord would be highly polemical and fit the overall mood of the chapter. However it seems more likely that the idolaters themselves are the subject, for v. 10 uses similar language in sarcastically urging them to run from judgment.

¹⁰ tn Heb “dust”; ASV “into the holes of the earth.”

¹¹ tn Heb “from the dread of the Lord,” that is, from the dread that he produces in the objects of his judgment.” The words “trying to escape” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹² tn Or “land.” It is not certain if these verses are describing the judgment of Judah (see vv. 6-9) or a more universal judgment on all proud men.

¹³ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

¹⁴ tn Or “bow down to.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “to the shrews and to the bats.” On the meaning of חֲפַרְפָּרָה (khafarparah, “shrew”), see HALOT 341 s.v. חֲפַרְפָּרָה. The BHS text as it stands (לַחְפֹּר פֵּרוֹת, perot lakhpor), makes no sense. Based on Theodotion’s transliteration and a similar reading in the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a, most scholars suggest that the MT mistakenly divided a noun (a hapax legomenon) that should be translated “moles,” “shrews,” or “rodents.”