2 Kings 16:3
Context16:3 He followed in the footsteps of 1 the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, 2 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 3 whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.
2 Kings 18:18
Context18:18 They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.
2 Kings 19:35
Context19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they 4 got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. 5
2 Kings 24:7
Context24:7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.


[16:3] 1 tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”
[16:3] 2 sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
[16:3] 3 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
[19:35] 4 tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.