2 Kings 10:18

Jehu Executes the Prophets and Priests of Baal

10:18 Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped ¹  Baal a little; Jehu will worship ²  him with great devotion. ³ 

2 Kings 21:21

21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father ⁴  and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols ⁵  which his father had worshiped. ⁶ 

2 Kings 24:1

24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, ⁷  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. ⁸  Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him. ⁹ 

[10:18]  ¹ tn Or “served.

[10:18]  ² tn Or “serve.”

[10:18]  ³ tn Heb “much” or “greatly.”

[21:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”

[21:21]  ⁵ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[21:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”

[24:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “In his days.”

[24:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “came up.” Perhaps an object (“against him”) has been accidentally omitted from the text. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 306.

[24:1]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text has “and he turned and rebelled against him.”