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2 Kings 17:16-26

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16 They forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves molten images, even 1two calves, and 2made an Asherah and 3worshiped all the host of heaven and 4served Baal.
17 Then 5they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and 6practiced divination and enchantments, and 7sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him.
18 So the LORD was very angry with Israel and 8removed them from His sight; 9none was left except * the tribe of Judah.
19 Also 10Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but 11walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.
20 The LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and 12gave them into the hand of plunderers, until * He had cast them out of His sight.
21 When 13He had torn Israel from the house of David, 14they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then 15Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the LORD and made them commit a great sin.
22 The sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them
23 16until * the LORD removed Israel from His sight, 17as He spoke through all His servants the prophets. 18So Israel was carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day.

Cities of Israel Filled with Strangers

24 19The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Cuthah and from 20Avva and from 21Hamath and Sephar-vaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
25 At the beginning of their living there, they 22did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them which killed some of them.
26 So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations whom you have carried away into exile in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the god of the land; so he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them because they do not know the custom of the god of the land."
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2 Kings 17:16-26 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
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Cross References 22

  • 1. 1 Kings 12:28
  • 2. 1 Kings 14:15, 23
  • 3. Deuteronomy 4:19; 2 Kings 21:3
  • 4. 1 Kings 16:31
  • 5. 2 Kings 16:3
  • 6. Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 18:10-12
  • 7. 1 Kings 21:20
  • 8. 2 Kings 17:6
  • 9. 1 Kin 11:13, 32, 36
  • 10. 1 Kings 14:22, 23
  • 11. 2 Kings 16:3
  • 12. 2 Kings 15:29
  • 13. 1 Kings 11:11, 31
  • 14. 1 Kings 12:20
  • 15. 1 Kings 12:28-33
  • 16. 2 Kings 17:6
  • 17. 2 Kings 17:13
  • 18. 2 Kings 17:6
  • 19. Ezra 4:2, 10
  • 20. 2 Kings 18:34
  • 21. 1 Kings 8:65
  • 22. 2 Kings 17:32-41

Footnotes 9

  • [a] I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity
  • [b] Lit "face"
  • [c] Lit "statutes"
  • [d] Lit "of Israel which they"
  • [e] Lit "made"
  • [f] Lit "seed"
  • [g] Lit "from His face"
  • [h] Lit "sin"
  • [i] In 2 Kin 18:34, "Ivvah"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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