¹tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

²tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

³tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”

⁴sn See the note at 2 Kgs 17:16.

⁵tn Or “served.”

⁶tn Heb “In Jerusalem I will place my name.”

⁷tc The LXX has the plural “his sons” here.

⁸sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

⁹tn Heb “and he set up a ritual pit, along with conjurers.” The Hebrew bwa, “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 bwa tlub, “owner of a ritual pit.” See H. Hoffner, JBL 86 (1967), 385-401.

¹⁰tc 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).

¹¹tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever”).”

¹²tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”

¹³tn Heb “listen.”

¹⁴tn Heb “spoke by the hand of.”

¹⁵tn Heb “these horrible sins.”

¹⁶sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

¹⁷tn Heb “so that everyone who hears it, his two ears will quiver.”

¹⁸tn Heb “I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab.” The measuring line and plumb line are normally used in building a structure, not tearing it down. But here they are used ironically as metaphors of judgment, emphasizing that he will give careful attention to the task of judgment.

¹⁹tn Heb “just as one wipes a plate, wiping and turning [it] on its face.” The word picture emphasizes how thoroughly the Lord will judge the city.

²⁰tn Heb “the remnant of my inheritance.” In this context the Lord’s remnant is the tribe of Judah, which had been preserved when the Assyrians conquered and deported the northern tribes. See 17:18 and Cogan and Tadmor, II Kings, 269.

²¹tn Heb “they will become plunder and booty for all their enemies.”

²²tn Heb “in my eyes.”

²³tn Heb “and also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth.”

²⁴tn Heb “apart from his sin which he caused Judah to commit, by doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

²⁵tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Manasseh, and all which he did, and his sin which he committed, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?”

²⁶tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

²⁷tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

²⁸tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²⁹tn Heb “walked in all the way which his father walked.”

³⁰sn See the note at 1 Kgs 15:12.

³¹tn Heb “and he served the disgusting idols which his father served and he bowed down to them.”

³²tn Heb “and did not walk in the way of the Lord.”

³³tn Heb “the people of the land.” The pronoun “they” has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid the repetition of the phrase “the people of the land” from the beginning of the verse.

³⁴tc Heb “As for the rest of the things of Amon which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?” Many Hebrew mss have lkw, “and all,” before rva. In this case we can translate, “As for the rest of the events of Amon’s reign, and all his accomplishments,….”

³⁵tn Heb “he buried him.” Here “he” probably refers to Amon’s son Josiah.