2 Raja-raja 21:9

21:9 But they did not obey, ¹  and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.

2 Raja-raja 21:2

21:2 He did evil in the sight of ²  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ³  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

1 Tawarikh 1:9

1:9 The sons of Cush:

Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca.

The sons of Raamah:

Sheba and Dedan.

Yeremia 2:10-11

2:10 Go west ⁴  across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus ⁵  and see.

Send someone east to Kedar ⁶  and have them look carefully.

See if such a thing as this has ever happened:

2:11 Has a nation ever changed its gods

(even though they are not really gods at all)?

But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, ⁷ 

for a god that cannot help them at all! ⁸ 

Yehezkiel 16:47

16:47 Have you not copied their behavior ⁹  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ¹⁰  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

[21:9]  ¹ tn Heb “listen.”

[21:2]  ² tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:2]  ³ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[2:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “For go west.”

[2:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “pass over to the coasts of Kittim.” The words “west across the sea” in this line and “east of” in the next are implicit in the text and are supplied in the translation to give geographical orientation.

[2:10]  sn The Hebrew term translated Cyprus (“Kittim”) originally referred to the island of Cyprus but later was used for the lands in the west, including Macedonia (1 Macc 1:1; 8:5) and Rome (Dan 11:30). It is used here as part of a figure called merism to denote the lands in the west as opposed to Kedar which was in the east. The figure includes polar opposites to indicate totality, i.e., everywhere from west to east.

[2:10]  ⁶ sn Kedar is the home of the Bedouin tribes in the Syro-Arabian desert. See Gen 25:18 and Jer 49:38. See also the previous note for the significance of the reference here.

[2:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “have exchanged their glory [i.e., the God in whom they glory].” This is a case of a figure of speech where the attribute of a person or thing is put for the person or thing. Compare the common phrase in Isaiah, the Holy One of Israel, obviously referring to the Lord, the God of Israel.

[2:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “what cannot profit.” The verb is singular and the allusion is likely to Baal. See the translator’s note on 2:8 for the likely pun or wordplay.

[16:47]  ⁹ tn Heb “walked in their ways.”

[16:47]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.