Discovery Box2 Kings 13:2 
Context13:2 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
Context13:6 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
Context13:11 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
Context15:9 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
Context15:18 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 16:3
Context16:3 He followed in the footsteps of 16 the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, 17 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 18 whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.
2 Kings 17:21
Context17:21 He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. 19 Jeroboam drove Israel away 20 from the Lord and encouraged them to commit a serious sin. 21
2 Kings 21:16
Context21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, 22 in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 23
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 “he walked in the way of.”
17 sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
18 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
19 tn Heb “and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king.”
20 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.”
21 tn Heb “a great sin.”
22 tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”
23 tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the
