2 Chronicles 12:14

12:14 He did evil because he was not determined to follow the Lord. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 33:2

33:2 He did evil in the sight of ²  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ³  whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 36:12

36:12 He did evil in the sight of ⁴  the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, the Lord’s spokesman.

2 Chronicles 21:6

21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. ⁵  He did evil in the sight of ⁶  the Lord.

2 Chronicles 22:4

22:4 He did evil in the sight of ⁷  the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they ⁸  gave him advice that led to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 29:6

29:6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of ⁹  the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned ¹⁰  away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him. ¹¹ 

2 Chronicles 33:22

33:22 He did evil in the sight of ¹²  the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped ¹³  them.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim’s Reign

36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹⁴  He did evil in the sight of ¹⁵  the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 36:9

Jehoiachin’s Reign

36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen ¹⁶  years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. ¹⁷  He did evil in the sight of ¹⁸  the Lord.

2 Chronicles 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire ¹⁹  in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. ²⁰  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him. ²¹ 

[12:14]  ¹ tn Heb “because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.”

[33:2]  ² tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[33:2]  ³ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[36:12]  ³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:6]  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.”

[21:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[22:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[22:4]  ⁶ tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.

[29:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[29:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “turned their faces.”

[29:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “and turned the back.”

[33:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[33:22]  ⁸ tn Or “served.”

[36:5]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[36:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[36:9]  ⁹ tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”

[36:9]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[36:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[33:6]  ¹⁰ tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

[33:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” 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 בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

[33:6]  ¹² tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”