2 Kings 5:18

5:18 May the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to worship, and he leans on my arm and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.” 1 

2 Kings 18:22

18:22 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’

2 Kings 23:4

23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, 2  and the guards 3  to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of 4  Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. 5  The king 6  burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces 7  of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 8 

1 tn Heb “When my master enters the house of Rimmon to bow down there, and he leans on my hand and I bow down [in] the house of Rimmon, when I bow down [in] the house of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this thing.”

sn Rimmon was the Syrian storm god. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 65.

2 tn Heb “the priests of the second [rank],” that is, those ranked just beneath Hilkiah.

3 tn Or “doorkeepers.”

4 tn Heb “for.”

5 tn Heb “all the host of heaven” (also in v. 5).

6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

7 tn Or “fields.” For a defense of the translation “terraces,” see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 285.

8 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.