Lièwángjìxià 17:2

2 Tā xíng Yēhéhuá yǎn zhōng kàn wéi è de shì , zhǐshì bù xiàng zaì tā yǐqián de Yǐsèliè zhū wáng .

Lièwángjìxià 17:2 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 17:2

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but
not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
] He did not worship Baal, as some of them had done; and he could not worship the calves, as all of them had, for they were carried away by the Assyrians in the former captivities, as the Jews ^F19 say; and who also observe ^F20, that he removed the garrisons set on the borders of the land to watch the Israelites, that they might not go up to Jerusalem; and this being done on the fifteenth of Ab, that day was afterwards observed as a festival on that account; and they further remark ^F21, that the captivity of the ten tribes was in the reign of this king, who was better than the rest, to show that it was not barely the sins of the kings on whom the Israelites would cast the blame, that they were carried captives, but their own, according to ( Hosea 5:3 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 22.
F20 T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 88. Kimchi in loc.
F21 Seder Olam Raba, ut supra. (c. 22.)

Lièwángjìxià 17:2 In-Context

1 Yóudà wáng Yàhāsī shí èr nián , Yǐlā de érzi hé xì yà zaì sǎ Mǎlìyà dēng jī zuò Yǐsèliè wáng jiǔ nián .

2 Tā xíng Yēhéhuá yǎn zhōng kàn wéi è de shì , zhǐshì bù xiàng zaì tā yǐqián de Yǐsèliè zhū wáng .

3 Yàshù wáng sǎ màn yǐ sè shàng lái gōngjī hé xì yà , hé xì yà jiù fúshì tā , gĕi tā jìn gòng .

4 Héxìyà beìpàn , chāi rén qù jiàn Āijí wáng suō , bù zhào wǎng nián suǒ xíng de yǔ Yàshù wáng jìn gòng . Yàshù wáng zhīdào le , jiù bǎ tā suǒ jīn , qiú zaì jiānlǐ .

5 Yàshù wáng shàng lái gōngjī Yǐsèliè biàn dì , shàng dào sǎ Mǎlìyà , wéi kùn sān nián .