2 Raja-raja 1:14

1:14 Indeed, ¹  fire came down from the sky and consumed the two captains who came before me, along with their men. ²  So now, please have respect for my life.”

2 Raja-raja 3:2

3:2 He did evil in the sight of ³  the Lord, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

2 Raja-raja 8:18

8:18 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. ⁴  He did evil in the sight of ⁵  the Lord.

2 Raja-raja 8:27

8:27 He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of ⁶  the Lord, like Ahab’s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab’s family. ⁷ 

2 Raja-raja 13:2

13:2 He did evil in the sight of ⁸  the Lord. He continued in ⁹  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins. ¹⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 13:11

13:11 He did evil in the sight of ¹¹  the Lord. He did not repudiate ¹²  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins. ¹³ 

2 Raja-raja 15:9

15:9 He did evil in the sight of ¹⁴  the Lord, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate ¹⁵  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

2 Raja-raja 15:18

15:18 He did evil in the sight of ¹⁶  the Lord; he did not repudiate ¹⁷  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. ¹⁸ 

During his reign,

2 Raja-raja 16:2

16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. ¹⁹  He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. ²⁰ 

2 Raja-raja 17:9

17:9 The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. ²¹  They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. ²² 

2 Raja-raja 17:17

17:17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, ²³  and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. ²⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ²⁵  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ²⁶  and how I have carried out your will.” ²⁷  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ²⁸ 

2 Raja-raja 21:2

21:2 He did evil in the sight of ²⁹  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ³⁰  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Raja-raja 21:15

21:15 because they have done evil in my sight ³¹  and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

[1:14]  ¹ tn Heb “look.”

[1:14]  ² tn Heb “their fifty.”

[3:2]  ³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[8:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

[8:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[8:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[8:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the Lord like the house of Ahab, for he was a relative by marriage of the house of Ahab.” For this use of חֲתַן (khatan), normally “son-in-law,” see HALOT 365 s.v. חָתָן. Ahab was Ahaziah’s grandfather on his mother’s side.

[13:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[13:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “walked after.”

[13:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he did not turn aside from it.”

[13:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[13:11]  ¹² tn Heb “turn away from all.”

[13:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “in it he walked.”

[15:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[15:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “turn away from.”

[15:18]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[15:18]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “turn away from.”

[15:18]  ¹⁸ tc The MT of v. 18 ends with the words, “all his days.” If this phrase is taken with what precedes, then one should translate, “[who encouraged Israel to sin] throughout his reign.” However, it may be preferable to emend the text to בְיֹמָיו (bÿyomav), “in his days,” and join the phrase to what follows. The translation assumes this change.

[16:2]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[16:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.”

[17:9]  ²¹ tn The meaning of the verb וַיְחַפְּאוּ (vayÿkhappÿ’u), translated here “said,” is uncertain. Some relate it to the verbal root חָפַה (khafah), “to cover,” and translate “they did it in secret” (see BDB 341 s.v. חָפָא). However, the pagan practices specified in the following sentences were hardly done in secret. Others propose a meaning “ascribe, impute,” which makes good contextual sense but has little etymological support (see HALOT 339 s.v. חפא). In this case Israel claimed that the Lord authorized their pagan practices.

[17:9]  ²² sn That is, from the city’s perimeter to the central citadel.

[17:17]  ²³ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

[17:17]  ²⁴ tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[20:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

[20:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

[20:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[20:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

[21:2]  ²⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[21:2]  ³⁰ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

[21:15]  ³¹ tn Heb “in my eyes.”