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 23:5

23:5 He eliminated ³  the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices ⁴  on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem. (They offered sacrifices ⁵  to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.)

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁶  day of the twelfth month, ⁷  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁸  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁹  from prison.

¹ tn Heb “these horrible sins.”

² sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

³ tn Perhaps, “destroyed.”

⁴ tn Or “burn incense.”

⁵ tn Or “burned incense.”

⁵ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

⁶ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁷ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

⁸ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.