2 Kings 1:14
Context1:14 Indeed, 1 fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. 2 So now, please have respect for my life.”
2 Kings 5:24
Context5:24 When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants 3 and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way. 4
2 Kings 17:11
Context17:11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry. 5
2 Kings 17:31-33
Context17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 6 and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 7 the gods of Sepharvaim. 17:32 At the same time they worshiped 8 the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 9 17:33 They were worshiping 10 the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.
2 Kings 18:35
Context18:35 Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’” 11
2 Kings 19:12
Context19:12 Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? 12
2 Kings 21:15
Context21:15 because they have done evil in my sight 13 and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”
1 tn Heb “look.”
2 tn Heb “their fifty.”
3 tn Heb “from their hand.”
4 tn Heb “and he sent the men away and they went.”
5 tn Heb “and they did evil things, angering the
6 sn Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
7 sn Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.
8 tn Heb “feared.”
9 tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”
10 tn Heb “fearing.”
11 tn Heb “that the
12 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”
13 tn Heb “in my eyes.”