2 Kings 9:25

9:25 Jehu ordered ¹  his officer Bidkar, “Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the Lord pronounced this judgment on him,

2 Kings 9:1

Jehu Becomes King

9:1 Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild ²  and told him, “Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container ³  of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

2 Kings 21:1-7

Manasseh’s Reign over Judah

21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. ⁴  His mother ⁵  was Hephzibah. 21:2 He did evil in the sight of ⁶  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ⁷  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites. 21:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ⁸  and worshiped ⁹  them. 21:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my home.” ¹⁰  21:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky. 21:6 He passed his son ¹¹  through the fire ¹²  and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. ¹³  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ¹⁴  21:7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. ¹⁵ 

2 Kings 21:15

21:15 because they have done evil in my sight ¹⁶  and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

2 Kings 21:18-19

21:18 Manasseh passed away ¹⁷  and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzzah, and his son Amon replaced him as king.

Amon’s Reign over Judah

21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. ¹⁸  His mother ¹⁹  was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.

¹ tn Heb “said to.”

² tn Heb “one of the sons of the prophets.”

³ tn Or “flask.”

⁴ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁵ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁷ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

⁸ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:16.

⁹ tn Or “served.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “In Jerusalem I will place my name.”

¹¹ tc The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.

¹² sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

¹³ tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with conjurers.” The Hebrew אוֹב (’ov), “ritual pit,” refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov), “owner of a ritual pit.” See H. Hoffner, “Second millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967), 385-401.

¹⁴ tc Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix (“him”) has been accidentally omitted in the MT by haplography (note the vav that immediately follows).

¹⁵ tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”

¹⁶ tn Heb “in my eyes.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

¹⁸ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁹ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”