2 Raja-raja 21:2

21:2 He did evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations ²  whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

2 Raja-raja 21:4

21:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my home.” ³ 

2 Raja-raja 21:6

21:6 He passed his son ⁴  through the fire ⁵  and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. ⁶  He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ⁷ 

Yesaya 59:12

59:12 For you are aware of our many rebellious deeds, ⁸ 

and our sins testify against us;

indeed, we are aware of our rebellious deeds;

we know our sins all too well. ⁹ 

[21:2]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

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

[21:4]  ³ tn Heb “In Jerusalem I will place my name.”

[21:6]  ⁴ tc The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.

[21:6]  ⁵ sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

[21:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with conjurers.” The Hebrew אוֹב (’ov), “ritual pit,” refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. In 1 Sam 28:7 the witch of Endor is called a בַעֲלַת אוֹב (ba’alat ’ov), “owner of a ritual pit.” See H. Hoffner, “Second millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967), 385-401.

[21:6]  ⁷ tc Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix (“him”) has been accidentally omitted in the MT by haplography (note the vav that immediately follows).

[59:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “for many are our rebellious deeds before you.”

[59:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “indeed [or “for”] our rebellious deeds (are) with us, and our sins, we know them.”