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 3:20

3:20 Sure enough, the next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water came flowing down from Edom and filled the land. ² 

2 Kings 7:15

7:15 So they tracked them ³  as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. ⁴  The scouts ⁵  went back and told the king.

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. ⁶  He did evil in the sight of ⁷  the Lord.

2 Kings 8:27

8:27 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of ⁸  the Lord, like Ahab’s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab’s family. ⁹ 

2 Kings 16:3

16:3 He followed in the footsteps of ¹⁰  the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, ¹¹  a horrible sin practiced by the nations ¹²  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 19:28

19:28 Because you rage against me,

and the uproar you create has reached my ears; ¹³ 

I will put my hook in your nose, ¹⁴ 

and my bridle between your lips,

and I will lead you back the way

you came.”

2 Kings 21:21

21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father ¹⁵  and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols ¹⁶  which his father had worshiped. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 22:2

22:2 He did what the Lord approved ¹⁸  and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; ¹⁹  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.”

² tn Heb “and in the morning, when the offering is offered up, look, water was coming from the way of Edom, and the land was filled with water.”

³ tn Heb “went after.”

⁴ tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”

⁵ tn Or “messengers.”

⁴ 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.”

⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁶ 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.

⁶ tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”

⁷ 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.

⁸ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

⁷ tc Heb “and your complacency comes up into my ears.” The parallelism is improved if שַׁאֲנַנְךְ (sha’anankh), “your complacency,” is emended to שַׁאֲוַנְךְ (sha’avankh), “your uproar.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 237-38.

⁸ sn The word picture has a parallel in Assyrian sculpture. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 238.

⁸ tn Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”

⁹ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”

⁹ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”