2 Kings 11:1

Athaliah is Eliminated

11:1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line. ¹ 

2 Kings 14:24

14:24 He did evil in the sight of ²  the Lord; he did not repudiate ³  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15:18

15:18 He did evil in the sight of ⁴  the Lord; he did not repudiate ⁵  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. ⁶ 

During his reign,

2 Kings 16:11

16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. ⁷  Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. ⁸ 

2 Kings 22:2

22:2 He did what the Lord approved ⁹  and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; ¹⁰  he did not deviate to the right or the left.

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¹ tn Heb “she arose and she destroyed all the royal offspring.” The verb קוּם (qum) “arise,” is here used in an auxiliary sense to indicate that she embarked on a campaign to destroy the royal offspring. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 125.

² tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

³ tn Heb “turn away from all.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁵ tn Heb “turn away from.”

⁶ tc The MT of v. 18 ends with the words, “all his days.” If this phrase is taken with what precedes, then one should translate, “[who encouraged Israel to sin] throughout his reign.” However, it may be preferable to emend the text to בְיֹמָיו (bÿyomav), “in his days,” and join the phrase to what follows. The translation assumes this change.

⁷ tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”

⁸ tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”

⁹ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and walked in all the way of David his father.”