2 Kings 2:6
2:6 Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.
2 Kings 3:2
3:2 He did evil in the sight of
1 the
Lord, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.
2 Kings 3:24
3:24 When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites
2 thoroughly defeated
3 Moab.
2 Kings 6:12
6:12 One of his advisers said, “No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom.”
2 Kings 10:23
10:23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu
4 said to the servants of Baal, “Make sure there are no servants of the
Lord here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.”
5
2 Kings 13:11
13:11 He did evil in the sight of
6 the
Lord. He did not repudiate
7 the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.
8
2 Kings 16:3
16:3 He followed in the footsteps of
9 the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire,
10 a horrible sin practiced by the nations
11 whom the
Lord drove out from before the Israelites.
1 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
1 tn Heb “they.”
2 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) suggests, “and they went, striking down,” but the marginal reading (Qere) is “they struck down, striking down.” For a discussion of the textual problem, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 46.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “Search carefully and observe so that there are not here with you any servants of the Lord, only the servants of Baal.”
1 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
2 tn Heb “turn away from all.”
3 tn Heb “in it he walked.”
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.”