2 Kings 11:10

11:10 The priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David’s spears and the shields that were kept in the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 17:8

17:8 they observed the practices ¹  of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. ² 

2 Kings 17:29

17:29 But each of these nations made ³  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ⁴  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

2 Kings 19:12

19:12 Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? ⁵ 

2 Kings 20:15

20:15 Isaiah ⁶  asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything ⁷  in my treasuries.”

2 Kings 21:15

21:15 because they have done evil in my sight ⁸  and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

2 Kings 21:17

21:17 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign and all his accomplishments, as well as the sinful acts he committed, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ⁹ 

2 Kings 21:21

21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father ¹⁰  and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols ¹¹  which his father had worshiped. ¹² 

2 Kings 23:7

23:7 He tore down the quarters ¹³  of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines ¹⁴  for Asherah.

2 Kings 23:26

23:26 Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “walked in the customs.”

² tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”

¹ sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

² tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

¹ tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “there was nothing I did not show them.”

¹ tn Heb “in my eyes.”

¹ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Manasseh, and all which he did, and his sin which he committed, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

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 Or “cubicles.” Heb “houses.”

² tn Heb “houses.” Perhaps tent-shrines made from cloth are in view (see BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת). M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 286) understand this as referring to clothes made for images of the goddess.

¹ tn Heb “Yet the Lord did not turn away from the fury of his great anger, which raged against Judah, on account of all the infuriating things by which Manasseh had made him angry.”