2 Kings 2:6

2:6 Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.

2 Kings 3:2

3:2 He did evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

2 Kings 3:24

3:24 When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites ²  thoroughly defeated ³  Moab.

2 Kings 6:12

6:12 One of his advisers said, “No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom.”

2 Kings 10:23

10:23 Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu ⁴  said to the servants of Baal, “Make sure there are no servants of the Lord here with you; there must be only servants of Baal.” ⁵ 

2 Kings 13:11

13:11 He did evil in the sight of ⁶  the Lord. He did not repudiate ⁷  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins. ⁸ 

2 Kings 16:3

16:3 He followed in the footsteps of ⁹  the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, ¹⁰  a horrible sin practiced by the nations ¹¹  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

[3:2]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[3:24]  ¹ tn Heb “they.”

[3:24]  ² tc The consonantal text (Kethib) suggests, “and they went, striking down,” but the marginal reading (Qere) is “they struck down, striking down.” For a discussion of the textual problem, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 46.

[10:23]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehu) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:23]  ² tn Heb “Search carefully and observe so that there are not here with you any servants of the Lord, only the servants of Baal.”

[13:11]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[13:11]  ² tn Heb “turn away from all.”

[13:11]  ³ tn Heb “in it he walked.”

[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.”