2 Chronicles 23:14

23:14 Jehoiada the priest sent out the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, and ordered them, “Bring her outside the temple to the guards.¹ Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple.²

2 Chronicles 25:4

25:4 However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses,³ “Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do,⁴ and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do.⁵ A man must be executed only for his own sin.”⁶

2 Chronicles 33:6

33:6 He passed his sons through the fire⁷ in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it.⁸ He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him.⁹

¹tn Heb “ranks.”

²tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Do not put her to death in the house of the Lord.’”

³tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which the Lord commanded, saying.”

⁴tn Heb “on account of sons.”

⁵tn Heb “on account of fathers.”

⁶sn This law is recorded in Deut 24:16.

⁷tn Or “he sacrificed his sons in the fire.” This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB, NASV “made his sons pass through the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

⁸tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with a conjurer.” 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 בַּעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov, “owner of a ritual pit”). See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401.

⁹tn Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”