2 Kings 21:11

21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. 1  He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols. 2 

2 Kings 23:13

23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 3  that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

1 tn Heb “these horrible sins.”

2 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

3 sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.