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2 Kings 21:2

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21:2 He did evil in the sight of 1  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations 2  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 16:3

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16:3 He followed in the footsteps of 3  the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, 4  a horrible sin practiced by the nations 5  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:11

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21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. 6  He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols. 7 

2 Kings 23:13

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23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 8  that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.
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[21:2]  1 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:2]  2 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[16:3]  3 tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”

[16:3]  4 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]  5 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[21:11]  5 tn Heb “these horrible sins.”

[21:11]  6 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[23:13]  7 sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.



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