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2 Kings 17:15-17

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15 1They rejected His statutes and 2His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And 3they followed * vanity and 4became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the 5LORD 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 6two calves, and 7made an Asherah and 8worshiped all the host of heaven and 9served Baal.
17 Then 10they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and 11practiced divination and enchantments, and 12sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him.
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2 Kings 17:15-17 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 12

  • 1. Jeremiah 8:9
  • 2. Exodus 24:6-8; Deuteronomy 29:25
  • 3. Deuteronomy 32:21
  • 4. Jeremiah 2:5; Romans 1:21-23
  • 5. Deuteronomy 12:30, 31
  • 6. 1 Kings 12:28
  • 7. 1 Kings 14:15, 23
  • 8. Deuteronomy 4:19; 2 Kings 21:3
  • 9. 1 Kings 16:31
  • 10. 2 Kings 16:3
  • 11. Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 18:10-12
  • 12. 1 Kings 21:20

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity
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