2 Raja-raja 17:29

17:29 But each of these nations made ¹  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ²  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

2 Raja-raja 19:11

19:11 Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. ³  Do you really think you will be rescued? ⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 21:9

21:9 But they did not obey, ⁵  and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.

2 Raja-raja 23:30

23:30 His servants transported his dead body ⁶  from Megiddo in a chariot and brought it to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his tomb. The people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, poured olive oil on his head, ⁷  and made him king in his father’s place.

[17:29]  ¹ sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

[17:29]  ² tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

[19:11]  ³ tn Heb “Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, annihilating them.”

[19:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “and will you be rescued?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No, of course not!”

[21:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “listen.”

[23:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “him, dead.”

[23:30]  ⁷ tn Or “anointed him.”