2 Kings 21:2
Context21:2 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
Context16:3 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
Context21:11 “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
Context23:13 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.


[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.