2 Kings 17:13

17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” ¹ 

2 Kings 21:6

21:6 He passed his son ²  through the fire ³  and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. ⁴  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ⁵ 

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁶  day of the twelfth month, ⁷  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁸  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁹  from prison.

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¹ tn Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.”

² tc The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.

³ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

⁴ tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with conjurers.” The Hebrew אוֹב (’ov), “ritual pit,” refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov), “owner of a ritual pit.” See H. Hoffner, “Second millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967), 385-401.

⁵ tc Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix (“him”) has been accidentally omitted in the MT by haplography (note the vav that immediately follows).

⁶ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

⁷ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁸ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

⁹ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.