2 Kings 8:24

8:24 Joram passed away ¹  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Ahaziah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 14:16

14:16 Jehoash passed away ²  and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. His son Jeroboam replaced him as king.)

2 Kings 15:7

15:7 Azariah passed away ³  and was buried ⁴  with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Jotham replaced him as king.

2 Kings 15:38

15:38 Jotham passed away ⁵  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz replaced him as king.

2 Kings 16:3

16:3 He followed in the footsteps of ⁶  the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, ⁷  a horrible sin practiced by the nations ⁸  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 16:18

16:18 He also removed the Sabbath awning ⁹  that had been built ¹⁰  in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 16:20

16:20 Ahaz passed away ¹²  and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 21:6

21:6 He passed his son ¹³  through the fire ¹⁴  and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. ¹⁵  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 21:18

21:18 Manasseh passed away ¹⁷  and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzzah, and his son Amon replaced him as king.

2 Kings 21:24

21:24 The people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they ¹⁸  made his son Josiah king in his place.

2 Kings 23:10

23:10 The king ¹⁹  ruined Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that no one could pass his son or his daughter through the fire to Molech. ²⁰ 

[8:24]  ¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[14:16]  ² tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[15:7]  ³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[15:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they buried him.”

[15:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[16:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”

[16:3]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[16:18]  ⁶ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term מוּסַךְ (musakh; Qere) / מִיסַךְ (misakh; Kethib) is uncertain. For discussion see HALOT 557 s.v. מוּסַךְ and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189-90.

[16:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “that they built.”

[16:18]  ⁸ sn It is doubtful that Tiglath-pileser ordered these architectural changes. Ahaz probably made these changes so he could send some of the items and materials to the Assyrian king as tribute. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 190, 193.

[16:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[21:6]  ⁸ tc The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.

[21:6]  ⁹ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

[21:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with conjurers.” The Hebrew אוֹב (’ov), “ritual pit,” refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov), “owner of a ritual pit.” See H. Hoffner, “Second millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967), 385-401.

[21:6]  ¹¹ tc Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix (“him”) has been accidentally omitted in the MT by haplography (note the vav that immediately follows).

[21:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[21:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the people of the land.” The pronoun “they” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid the repetition of the phrase “the people of the land” from the beginning of the verse.

[23:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[23:10]  ¹² sn Attempts to identify this deity with a god known from the ancient Near East have not yet yielded a consensus. For brief discussions see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor II Kings (AB), 288 and HALOT 592 s.v. מֹלֶךְ. For more extensive studies see George C. Heider, The Cult of Molek, and John Day, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament.