2 Kings 17:13-18

13 Yet the ¹LORD warned Israel and Judah ²through all His prophets and ³every seer, saying, "⁴Turn 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 ⁵stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

15 ⁶They rejected His statutes and ⁷His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And ⁸they followed * vanity and ⁹became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the ¹⁰LORD 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 ¹¹two calves, and ¹²made an Asherah and ¹³worshiped all the host of heaven and ¹⁴served Baal.

17 Then ¹⁵they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and ¹⁶practiced divination and enchantments, and ¹⁷sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him.

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

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2 Kings 17:13-18 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 19

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

Footnotes 3

[a]. Lit "like the neck of"
[b]. I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity
[c]. Lit "face"

2 Kings 17:13-18

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2 Kings 17:13-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 17

Cross References 19

Footnotes 3