Passage

2 Kings 21

• Glossary Term

  Covenant

  Same occult-connotation risk as in 1 Kings; must read as relational divine commitment, not a negotiated bargain.

  2KI.21.10-15

• Doctrine

  Covenant Unfaithfulness and Consequences

  CRITICAL: both kingdoms' eventual exile is framed as the outworking of the covenant conditionality established back in 1 Kings 9:4-9 -- 'pacto' must never drift toward its occult folk-usage; this is covenant faithfulness and its real, stated consequences playing out across generations.

  2KI.21.10-15

• Doctrine

  Manasseh's Apostasy

  Manasseh is presented as the worst king of Judah, whose sins are later cited (2 Kings 24:3-4) as a direct cause of Judah's eventual exile -- his reign's severity must not be minimized even though 2 Kings (unlike 2 Chronicles) does not record his later repentance.

  2KI.21.1-18