2 Kings 1:4
1:4 Therefore this is what the
Lord says, “You will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die!”’” So Elijah went on his way.
2 Kings 3:9
3:9 So the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom
1 set out together. They wandered around on the road for seven days and finally ran out of water for the men and animals they had with them.
2 Kings 5:12
5:12 The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel!
2 Could I not wash in them and be healed?” So he turned around and went away angry.
2 Kings 8:14
8:14 He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad
3 asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael
4 replied, “He told me you would surely recover.”
2 Kings 8:18
8:18 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter.
5 He did evil in the sight of
6 the
Lord.
2 Kings 8:27-28
8:27 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of
7 the
Lord, like Ahab’s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab’s family.
8
8:28 He joined Ahab’s son Joram in a battle against King Hazael of Syria at Ramoth Gilead in which the Syrians defeated Joram.
2 Kings 9:16
9:16 Jehu drove his chariot
9 to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating
10 there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit
11 Joram.)
2 Kings 13:2
13:2 He did evil in the sight of
12 the
Lord. He continued in
13 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.
14
2 Kings 16:3
16:3 He followed in the footsteps of
15 the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire,
16 a horrible sin practiced by the nations
17 whom the
Lord drove out from before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:21
21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father
18 and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols
19 which his father had worshiped.
20
2 Kings 22:2
22:2 He did what the
Lord approved
21 and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps;
22 he did not deviate to the right or the left.
1 tn Heb “the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Edom.”
1 tn Heb “Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel?” The rhetorical question expects an emphatic “yes” as an answer.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ben Hadad) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hazael) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
1 tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”
2 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
1 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
2 tn Heb “and he walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for he was a relative by marriage of the house of Ahab.” For this use of חֲתַן (khatan), normally “son-in-law,” see HALOT 365 s.v. חָתָן. Ahab was Ahaziah’s grandfather on his mother’s side.
1 tn Heb “rode [or, ‘mounted’] and went.”
2 tn Heb “lying down.”
3 tn Heb “to see.”
1 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
2 tn Heb “walked after.”
3 tn Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”
1 tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”
2 sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
3 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
1 tn Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”
2 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.
3 tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”
1 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”
2 tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”