2 Kings 17:17

17:17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, ¹  and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. ² 

2 Kings 17:37

17:37 You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

2 Kings 21:6

21:6 He passed his son ³  through the fire ⁴  and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. ⁵  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ⁶ 

2 Kings 21:9

21:9 But they did not obey, ⁷  and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.

[17:17]  ¹ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

[17:17]  ² tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[21:6]  ³ tc The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.

[21:6]  ⁴ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

[21:6]  ⁵ 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.

[21:6]  ⁶ 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).

[21:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “listen.”