2 Kings 13:2

13:2 He did evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord. He continued in ²  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 repudiate ⁴  the sinful ways of the family ⁵  of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. ⁶  There was even an Asherah pole ⁷  standing in Samaria.

2 Kings 13:11

13:11 He did evil in the sight of ⁸  the Lord. He did not repudiate ⁹  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 of ¹¹  the Lord, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate ¹²  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 ¹³  the Lord; he did not repudiate ¹⁴  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. ¹⁵ 

During his reign,

2 Kings 21:17

21:17 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign and all his accomplishments, as well as the sinful acts he committed, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ¹⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

² tn Heb “walked after.”

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

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

⁵ tn Heb “house.”

⁶ tc 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).

⁷ tn 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).

⁸ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁹ tn Heb “turn away from all.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “in it he walked.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹² tn Heb “turn away from.”

¹³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “turn away from.”

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Manasseh, and all which he did, and his sin which he committed, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”