2 Raja-raja 2:10

2:10 Elijah ¹  replied, “That’s a difficult request! ²  If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don’t, it will not happen.”

2 Raja-raja 13:6

13:6 But they did not repudiate ³  the sinful ways of the family ⁴  of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. ⁵  There was even an Asherah pole ⁶  standing in Samaria.

2 Raja-raja 17:17

17:17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, ⁷  and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. ⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 17:37

17:37 You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

2 Raja-raja 18:16

18:16 At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts which he had plated ⁹  and gave them to the king of Assyria.

2 Raja-raja 23:28

23:28 The rest of the events of Josiah’s reign and all his accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. ¹⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 24:16

24:16 The king of Babylon deported to Babylon all the soldiers (there were 7,000), as well as 1,000 craftsmen and metal workers. This included all the best warriors. ¹¹ 

[2:10]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:10]  ² tn Heb “You have made difficult [your] request.”

[13:6]  ³ tn Heb “they did not turn away from.”

[13:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “house.”

[13:6]  ⁵ 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).

[13:6]  ⁶ tn Or “an image of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “the Asherah”; NCV “the Asherah idol.”

[13:6]  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).

[17:17]  ⁷ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

[17:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[18:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the Lord’s temple, and the posts which Hezekiah king of Judah had plated.”

[23:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Josiah, and all which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

[24:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the entire [group], mighty men, doers of war.”