2 Kings 9:36

9:36 When they went back and told him, he said, “The Lord’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, ¹  ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.

2 Kings 11:15

11:15 Jehoiada the priest ordered the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, ²  “Bring her outside the temple to the guards. ³  Put the sword to anyone who follows her.” The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the Lord’s temple. ⁴ 

2 Kings 11:19

11:19 He took the officers of the units of hundreds, the Carians, the royal bodyguard, and all the people of land, and together they led the king down from the Lord’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Gate of the Royal Bodyguard, ⁵  and the king ⁶  sat down on the royal throne.

2 Kings 17:7

A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History

17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of ⁷  Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped ⁸  other gods;

2 Kings 17:21

17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. ⁹  Jeroboam drove Israel away ¹⁰  from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 19:35

19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they ¹²  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses. ¹³ 

2 Kings 21:6

21:6 He passed his son ¹⁴  through the fire ¹⁵  and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. ¹⁶  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ¹⁷ 

2 Kings 21:16

21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, ¹⁸  in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁹ 

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¹ tn Heb “It is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, saying.”

² tn The Hebrew text also has, “and said to them.” This is redundant in English and has not been translated.

³ tn Heb “ranks.”

⁴ tn Heb “for the priest had said, ‘Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.’”

⁵ tn Heb “the Gate of the Runners of the House of the King.”

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

⁷ tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” are added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “feared.”

⁹ tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”

¹⁰ tc 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.”

¹¹ tn Heb “a great sin.”

¹² tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

¹³ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies.”

¹⁴ tc The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.

¹⁵ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

¹⁶ 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.

¹⁷ 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).

¹⁸ tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”