2 Kings 21:21

21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father ¹  and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols ²  which his father had worshiped. ³ 

2 Kings 10:18

Jehu Executes the Prophets and Priests of Baal

10:18 Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped ⁴  Baal a little; Jehu will worship ⁵  him with great devotion. ⁶ 

2 Kings 17:12

17:12 They worshiped ⁷  the disgusting idols ⁸  in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command. ⁹ 

2 Kings 17:33

17:33 They were worshiping ¹⁰  the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

2 Kings 17:41

17:41 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 17:16

17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, ¹¹  and worshiped ¹²  Baal.

2 Kings 21:3

21:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ¹³  and worshiped ¹⁴  them.

2 Kings 5:2

5:2 Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman’s wife.

2 Kings 4:40

4:40 The stew was poured out ¹⁵  for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it.

2 Kings 18:7

18:7 The Lord was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors. ¹⁶  He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 23:9

23:9 (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.) ¹⁸ 

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹⁹  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ²⁰  and how I have carried out your will.” ²¹  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ²² 

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ²³  day of the fifth month, ²⁴  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ²⁵  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ²⁶ 

2 Kings 3:11

3:11 Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the Lord here that we might seek the Lord’s direction?” ²⁷  One of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shapat is here; he used to be Elijah’s servant.” ²⁸ 

2 Kings 4:1

Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons

4:1 Now a wife of one of the prophets ²⁹  appealed ³⁰  to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. ³¹  Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

[21:21]  ¹ tn Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”

[21:21]  ² sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[21:21]  ³ tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”

[10:18]  ⁴ tn Or “served.

[10:18]  ⁵ tn Or “serve.”

[10:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “much” or “greatly.”

[17:12]  ⁷ tn Or “served.”

[17:12]  ⁸ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

[17:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “about which the Lord had said to them, ‘You must not do this thing.’”

[17:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fearing.”

[17:16]  ¹³ tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.

[17:16]  ¹⁴ tn Or “served.”

[21:3]  ¹⁶ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:16.

[21:3]  ¹⁷ tn Or “served.”

[4:40]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they poured out [the stew].” The plural subject is probably indefinite.

[18:7]  ²² tn Heb “in all which he went out [to do], he was successful.”

[18:7]  ²³ tn Heb “and did not serve him.”

[23:9]  ²⁵ tn Heb “their brothers.”

[20:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[20:3]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

[20:3]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[20:3]  ³¹ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

[25:8]  ³¹ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

[25:8]  ³² sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:8]  ³³ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[25:8]  ³⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:11]  ³⁴ tn Heb “that we might inquire of the Lord through him?”

[3:11]  ³⁵ tn Heb “who poured water on the hands of Elijah.” This refers to one of the typical tasks of a servant.

[4:1]  ³⁷ tn Heb “a wife from among the wives of the sons of the prophets.”

[4:1]  ³⁸ tn Or “cried out.”

[4:1]  ³⁹ tn Heb “your servant feared the Lord.” “Fear” refers here to obedience and allegiance, the products of healthy respect for the Lord’s authority.