2 Raja-raja 11:14

11:14 Then she saw ¹  the king standing by the pillar, according to custom. The officers stood beside the king with their trumpets and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!” ² 

2 Raja-raja 17:34

17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship ³  the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave ⁴  the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

2 Raja-raja 16:3

16:3 He followed in the footsteps of ⁵  the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, ⁶  a horrible sin practiced by the nations ⁷  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

[11:14]  ¹ tn Heb “and she saw, and look.”

[11:14]  ² tn Or “conspiracy, conspiracy.”

[17:34]  ³ tn Heb “fear.”

[17:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “commanded.”

[16:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “he walked in the way of.”

[16:3]  ⁶ sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice. For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

[16:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”