2 Koningen 17:9

9 En de kinderen Israels hadden de zaken, die niet recht zijn, tegen den HEERE, hun God, bemanteld; en hadden zich hoogten gebouwd in al hun steden, van den wachttoren af tot de vaste steden toe.

2 Koningen 17:9 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 17:9

And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were
not right against the Lord their God
As being partly conscious to themselves that they were not right, and ashamed to commit them openly; and partly as foolishly imagining, that, being done privately, they were not seen and observed of God, having imbibed some atheistical notions of him, that he was not omniscient, or saw not, and had forsaken the earth; or they "covered" ^F7 these actions of theirs under reigned and plausible pretences, that what they did they were obliged to by their kings, and with political views, and that they worshipped the true God in the calves; but these were coverings too thin not to be seen through:

and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of
the watchmen to the fenced city;
not content with those built in former times, they built new ones; and these not in their metropolis only, but in all the cities of the kingdom; and not in large cities only, but in every town and village between one fortified city and another; even wherever there was a watch tower erected, either for shepherds to watch their flocks, or for keepers of gardens, orchards, and vineyards, to watch the fruits of them, that they were not taken away.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (wapxy) "occultaverunt", Montanus, Vatablus, Grotius; "palliaverunt", Piscator.

2 Koningen 17:9 In-Context

7 Want het was geschied, dat de kinderen Israels gezondigd hadden tegen den HEERE, hun God, Die hen uit Egypteland opgebracht had, van onder de hand van Farao, den koning van Egypte; en hadden andere goden gevreesd;

8 En hadden gewandeld in de inzettingen der heidenen, die de HEERE voor het aangezicht der kinderen Israels verdreven had, en der koningen van Israel, die ze gemaakt hadden.

9 En de kinderen Israels hadden de zaken, die niet recht zijn, tegen den HEERE, hun God, bemanteld; en hadden zich hoogten gebouwd in al hun steden, van den wachttoren af tot de vaste steden toe.

10 En zij hadden zich staande beelden opgericht en bossen, op allen hogen heuvel en onder alle groen geboomte.

11 En zij hadden daar gerookt op alle hoogten, gelijk de heidenen, die de HEERE van hun aangezichten weggevoerd had; en zij hadden kwade dingen gedaan, om den HEERE tot toorn te verwekken.