2 Kings 13:2

13:2 He did evil in the sight of¹ the Lord. He continued in² the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.³

2 Kings 13:6

13:6 But they did not repudiate⁴ the sinful ways of the family⁵ of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins.⁶ There was even an Asherah pole⁷ standing in Samaria.

2 Kings 13:11

13:11 He did evil in the sight of⁸ the Lord. He did not repudiate⁹ the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.¹⁰

2 Kings 15:9

15:9 He did evil in the sight of¹¹ the Lord, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate¹² 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 of¹³ the Lord; he did not repudiate¹⁴ the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.¹⁵

During his reign,

2 Kings 16:3

16:3 He followed in the footsteps of¹⁶ the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire,¹⁷ a horrible sin practiced by the nations¹⁸ whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Kings 17:21

17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king.¹⁹ Jeroboam drove Israel away²⁰ from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin.²¹

2 Kings 21:16

21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end,²² in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord.²³

¹tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²tn Heb “walked after.”

³tn Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”

⁴tn Heb “they did not turn away from.”

⁵tn Heb “house.”

⁶tc Heb “in it he walked.” The singular verb (הָלַךְ, halakh) is probably due to an error of haplography and should be emended to the plural (הָלְכּוּ, halÿku). Note that a vav immediately follows (on the form וְגַם, vÿgam).

⁷tn Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.”

sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

⁸tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁹tn Heb “turn away from all.”

¹⁰tn Heb “in it he walked.”

¹¹tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹²tn Heb “turn away from.”

¹³tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁴tn Heb “turn away from.”

¹⁵tc 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.

¹⁶tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”

¹⁷sn 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.

¹⁸tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

¹⁹tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”

²⁰tc The consonantal text (Kethib) assumes the verb is נָדָא (nada’), an alternate form of נָדָה (nadah), “push away.” The marginal reading (Qere) assumes the verb נָדָח (nadakh), “drive away.”

²¹tn Heb “a great sin.”

²²tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

²³tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”