2 Raja-raja 21:2-3

21:2 He did evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ²  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites. 21:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky ³  and worshiped ⁴  them.

2 Raja-raja 23:13-14

23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, ⁵  that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom. 23:14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines ⁶  with human bones.

[21:2]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:2]  ² tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[21:3]  ³ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:16.

[21:3]  ⁴ tn Or “served.”

[23:13]  ⁵ sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.

[23:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “their places.”