2 Kings 17:11-21

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, ¹concerning which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

13 Yet the ²LORD warned Israel and Judah ³through all His prophets and ⁴every seer, saying, "⁵Turn 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 ⁶stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

15 ⁷They rejected His statutes and ⁸His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And ⁹they followed * vanity and ¹⁰became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the ¹¹LORD 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 ¹²two calves, and ¹³made an Asherah and ¹⁴worshiped all the host of heaven and ¹⁵served Baal.

17 Then ¹⁶they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and ¹⁷practiced divination and enchantments, and ¹⁸sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him.

18 So the LORD was very angry with Israel and ¹⁹removed them from His sight; ²⁰none was left except * the tribe of Judah.

19 Also ²¹Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but ²²walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

20 The LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and ²³gave them into the hand of plunderers, until * He had cast them out of His sight.

21 When ²⁴He had torn Israel from the house of David, ²⁵they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then ²⁶Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the LORD and made them commit a great sin.

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2 Kings 17:11-21 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 26

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

Footnotes 9

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

2 Kings 17:11-21

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2 Kings 17:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 17

Cross References 26

Footnotes 9