2 Kings 17:41
Context17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.
2 Kings 17:17
Context17:17 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 17:31
Context17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 3 and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 4 the gods of Sepharvaim.


[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
[17:31] 1 sn Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
[17:31] 2 sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.