Discovery Box2 Kings 17:13 
Context17:13 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
Context21:6 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
Context25:27 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.
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
6 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
7 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
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.
