2 Kings 10:4

10:4 They were absolutely terrified ¹  and said, “Look, two kings could not stop him! ²  How can we?” ³ 

2 Kings 14:26

14:26 The Lord saw Israel’s intense suffering; ⁴  everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer. ⁵ 

2 Kings 17:18

17:18 So the Lord was furious ⁶  with Israel and rejected them; ⁷  only the tribe of Judah was left.

2 Kings 21:16

21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, ⁸  in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. ⁹ 

2 Kings 23:25

23:25 No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses. ¹⁰ 

[10:4]  ¹ tn Heb “they were very, very afraid.” The term מְאֹד (me’od) “very,” is repeated for emphasis.

[10:4]  ² tn Heb “did not stand before him.”

[10:4]  ³ tn Heb “How can we stand?”

[14:26]  ⁴ tc Heb “for the Lord saw the very bitter affliction of Israel.” This translation assumes an emendation of מֹרֶה (moreh), which is meaningless here, to ַהמַּר (hammar), the adjective “bitter” functioning attributively with the article prefixed. This emendation is supported by the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate. Another option would be מַר הוּא (mar hu’), “it was bitter.”

[14:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “[there was] none but the restrained, and [there was] none but the abandoned, and there was no deliverer for Israel.” On the meaning of the terms עָצוּר (’atsur) and עָזוּב (’azur), see the note at 1 Kgs 14:10.

[17:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “very angry.”

[17:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “turned them away from his face.”

[21:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

[21:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

[23:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “and like him there was not a king before him who returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his being according to all the law of Moses, and after him none arose like him.”