2 Kings 17:10-20

10 ¹They set for themselves sacred pillars and ²Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

11 and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did which the LORD had carried away to exile before * them; and they did evil things provoking the LORD.

12 They served idols, ³concerning which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

13 Yet the ⁴LORD warned Israel and Judah ⁵through all His prophets and ⁶every seer, saying, "⁷Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets."

14 However, they did not listen, but ⁸stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

15 ⁹They rejected His statutes and ¹⁰His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And ¹¹they followed * vanity and ¹²became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the ¹³LORD had commanded them not to do like them.

16 They forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves molten images, even ¹⁴two calves, and ¹⁵made an Asherah and ¹⁶worshiped all the host of heaven and ¹⁷served Baal.

17 Then ¹⁸they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and ¹⁹practiced divination and enchantments, and ²⁰sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him.

18 So the LORD was very angry with Israel and ²¹removed them from His sight; ²²none was left except * the tribe of Judah.

19 Also ²³Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but ²⁴walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

20 The LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and ²⁵gave them into the hand of plunderers, until * He had cast them out of His sight.

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2 Kings 17:10-20 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 25

1. Exodus 34:12-14
2. 1 Kings 14:23; Micah 5:14
3. Exodus 20:4
4. Nehemiah 9:29, 30
5. 2 Kings 17:23
6. 1 Samuel 9:9
7. Jeremiah 7:3-7; Jeremiah 18:11; Ezekiel 18:31
8. Exodus 32:9; Exodus 33:3; Acts 7:51
9. Jeremiah 8:9
10. Exodus 24:6-8; Deuteronomy 29:25
11. Deuteronomy 32:21
12. Jeremiah 2:5; Romans 1:21-23
13. Deuteronomy 12:30, 31
14. 1 Kings 12:28
15. 1 Kings 14:15, 23
16. Deuteronomy 4:19; 2 Kings 21:3
17. 1 Kings 16:31
18. 2 Kings 16:3
19. Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 18:10-12
20. 1 Kings 21:20
21. 2 Kings 17:6
22. 1 Kin 11:13, 32, 36
23. 1 Kings 14:22, 23
24. 2 Kings 16:3
25. 2 Kings 15:29

Footnotes 9

[a]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
[b]. Lit "like the neck of"
[c]. I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity
[d]. Lit "face"
[e]. Lit "statutes"
[f]. Lit "of Israel which they"
[g]. Lit "made"
[h]. Lit "seed"
[i]. Lit "from His face"

2 Kings 17:10-20

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2 Kings 17:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 17

Cross References 25

Footnotes 9