2 Kings 5:21

5:21 So Gehazi ran after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?”¹

2 Kings 15:18

15:18 He did evil in the sight of² the Lord; he did not repudiate³ the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.⁴

During his reign,

2 Kings 17:18

17:18 So the Lord was furious⁵ with Israel and rejected them;⁶ only the tribe of Judah was left.

2 Kings 24:3

24:3 Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed.⁷

2 Kings 24:20

24:20 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger; he finally threw them out of his presence.⁸ Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

¹tn Heb “Is there peace?”

²tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

³tn Heb “turn away from.”

⁴tc The MT of v. 18 ends with the words, “all his days.” If this phrase is taken with what precedes, then one should translate, “[who encouraged Israel to sin] throughout his reign.” However, it may be preferable to emend the text to בְיֹמָיו (bÿyomav), “in his days,” and join the phrase to what follows. The translation assumes this change.

³tn Heb “very angry.”

⁴tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”

⁴tn Heb “Certainly according to the word of the Lord this happened against Judah, to remove [them] from his face because of the sins of Manasseh according to all which he did.”

⁵tn Heb “Surely [or, ‘for’] because of the anger of the Lord this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until he threw them out from upon his face.”