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2 Kings 17:16

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16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of 1two calves; and they 2made an Asherah and 3worshiped all the host of heaven and served 4Baal.
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2 Kings 17:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 17:16

And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God
Which their idolatry led them to; and indeed he that offends in one point is guilty of them all, ( James 2:10 )

and made them molten images, [even] two calves;
which they set up at Dan and Bethel, in the times of their first king Jeroboam, ( 1 Kings 13:28 1 Kings 13:29 )

and made a grove;
as Ahab, another of their kings, did, ( 1 Kings 16:33 )

and worshipped all the host of heaven:
not the angels, sometimes so called, but, besides the sun and moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus:

and served Baal;
which was service to the sun, as Abarbinel interprets it; this was the god of the Zidonians Ahab worshipped, having married a princess of that people, ( 1 Kings 16:31 1 Kings 16:32 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

2 Kings 17:16 In-Context

14 But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
15 They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
17 And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.

Cross References 4

  • 1. See 1 Kings 12:28
  • 2. 1 Kings 14:15, 23; 1 Kings 15:13; 1 Kings 16:33
  • 3. 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 23:5; [Deuteronomy 4:19]
  • 4. 2 Kings 11:18; 1 Kings 16:31; 1 Kings 22:53
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