2 Raja-raja 12:8

12:8 The priests agreed ¹  not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs. ² 

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. ³  He did not do what pleased the Lord his God, in contrast to his ancestor David. ⁴ 

2 Raja-raja 17:20

17:20 So the Lord rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated ⁵  them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

2 Raja-raja 23:26

23:26 Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done. ⁶ 

[12:8]  ¹ tn Outside of this passage the verb אוּת (’ut) appears only in Gen 34:15-22.

[12:8]  ² tn Heb “and not to repair the damages to the temple.” This does not mean that the priests were no longer interested in repairing the temple. As the following context makes clear, the priests decided to hire skilled workers to repair the damage to the temple, rather than trying to make the repairs themselves.

[16:2]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[16:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord his God, like David his father.”

[17:20]  ⁵ tn Or “afflicted.”

[23:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “Yet the Lord did not turn away from the fury of his great anger, which raged against Judah, on account of all the infuriating things by which Manasseh had made him angry.”