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 1  Baal a little; Jehu will worship 2  him with great devotion. 3 

2 Kings 19:31

19:31 For a remnant will leave Jerusalem;

survivors will come out of Mount Zion.

The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord 4  to his people 5  will accomplish this.

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 6  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 7  and how I have carried out your will.” 8  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 9 

1 tn Or “served.

2 tn Or “serve.”

3 tn Heb “much” or “greatly.”

4 tn Traditionally “the Lord of hosts.”

5 tn Heb “the zeal of the Lord.” In this context the Lord’s “zeal” refers to his intense devotion to and love for his people which prompts him to protect and restore them. The Qere, along with many medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions, has “the zeal of the LORD of hosts” rather than “the zeal of the LORD” (Kethib). The translation follows the Qere here.

6 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.

7 tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

8 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

9 tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”