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2 Kings 17:8-18

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8 1and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, 2and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.
9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, 3from watchtower to fortified city.
10 They set up for themselves 4pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
12 and they served idols, 5of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this."
13 Yet the LORD 6warned Israel and Judah 7by every prophet 8and every seer, saying, 9"Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
14 But they would not listen, 10but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
15 They despised his statutes 11and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after 12false idols 13and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the 14LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of 15two calves; and they 16made an Asherah and 17worshiped all the host of heaven and served 18Baal.
17 19And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used 20divination and 21omens and 22sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but 23the tribe of Judah only.
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2 Kings 17:8-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 17

This chapter relates the captivity of the ten tribes of Israel, and how it came about, 2Ki 17:1-6, the cause of it, their idolatry, which they persisted in, notwithstanding the remonstrances made against it, 2Ki 17:7-23, in whose stead were placed people from different parts, who exercised a mixed religion, partly Heathenish, and partly Israelitish, 2Ki 17:24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

  • 1. Leviticus 18:3; Deuteronomy 18:9
  • 2. ver. 19; 2 Kings 16:3
  • 3. 2 Kings 18:8
  • 4. See Exodus 23:24
  • 5. See Exodus 20:4
  • 6. Nehemiah 9:30
  • 7. ver. 23
  • 8. See 1 Samuel 9:9
  • 9. Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 25:5; Jeremiah 35:15
  • 10. Deuteronomy 9:6; 2 Chronicles 30:8; [Deuteronomy 31:27; Acts 7:51]
  • 11. Deuteronomy 29:25
  • 12. Deuteronomy 32:21; [1 Kings 16:13]
  • 13. Jeremiah 2:5; Romans 1:21
  • 14. Deuteronomy 12:30, 31
  • 15. See 1 Kings 12:28
  • 16. 1 Kings 14:15, 23; 1 Kings 15:13; 1 Kings 16:33
  • 17. 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 23:5; [Deuteronomy 4:19]
  • 18. 2 Kings 11:18; 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 22:53
  • 19. 2 Kings 16:3; [Leviticus 18:21; Ezekiel 23:37]
  • 20. [Deuteronomy 18:10]
  • 21. [Leviticus 19:26]
  • 22. See 1 Kings 21:20
  • 23. [1 Kings 11:13, 32; 1 Kings 12:20]

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
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