2 Kings 1:14
1:14 Indeed, 1 fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. 2 So now, please have respect for my life.”
2 Kings 5:24
5:24 When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants 3 and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way. 4
2 Kings 17:11
17:11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry. 5
2 Kings 17:31-33
17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 6 and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 7 the gods of Sepharvaim.
17:32 At the same time they worshiped 8 the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 9
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 18:35
18:35 Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” 11
2 Kings 19:12
19:12 Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? 12
2 Kings 21:15
21:15 because they have done evil in my sight 13 and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”
1 tn Heb “look.”
2 tn Heb “their fifty.”
3 tn Heb “from their hand.”
4 tn Heb “and he sent the men away and they went.”
5 tn Heb “and they did evil things, angering the Lord.”
6 sn Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
7 sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
8 tn Heb “feared.”
9 tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”
10 tn Heb “fearing.”
11 tn Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyrian onslaught, how can the people of Jerusalem possibly think the Lord will rescue them?
12 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”
13 tn Heb “in my eyes.”