Lièwángjìxià 17:25

25 Tāmen cái zhù nàli de shíhou , bù jìngwèi Yēhéhuá , suǒyǐ Yēhéhuá jiào shīzi jìnrù tāmen zhōngjiān , yǎo sǐ le xiē rén .

Lièwángjìxià 17:25 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 17:25

And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that
they feared not the Lord
Did not serve him in any manner, but their idols only, which they brought with them; whereas it was usual with Heathens to serve the gods of the country, as they reputed them, where they came, along with their own; but even this those men did not do:

therefore the Lord sent lions among them;
even into their cities, into which lions sometimes came ^F12, especially when old, out of the thickets of Jordan and other places where they haunted, see ( Jeremiah 49:19 )

which slew some of them;
this the Lord did to assert his sovereignty, authority, and mighty power, and to let them know that he could as easily clear the land of them, as they, by his permission, had cleared the land of the Israelites, Josephus ^F13 calls this a plague that was sent among them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 44. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 16.
F13 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 9. c. 14. sect. 1.)

Lièwángjìxià 17:25 In-Context

23 Yǐzhì Yēhéhuá cóng zìjǐ miànqián gǎn chū tāmen , zhēng rú jiè tā púrén zhòng xiānzhī suǒ shuō de . zhèyàng , Yǐsèliè rén cóng bĕn dì beìlǔ dào Yàshù , zhídào jīnrì .

24 Yàshù wáng cóng Bābǐlún , gǔ tā , yà wǎ , Hāmǎ , hé xī fǎ wǎ yīn qiāyí rén lái , ānzhì zaì sǎ Mǎlìyà de chéngyì , daìtì Yǐsèliè rén . tāmen jiù dé le sǎ Mǎlìyà , zhù zaì qízhōng .

25 Tāmen cái zhù nàli de shíhou , bù jìngwèi Yēhéhuá , suǒyǐ Yēhéhuá jiào shīzi jìnrù tāmen zhōngjiān , yǎo sǐ le xiē rén .

26 Yǒu rén gàosu Yàshù wáng shuō , nǐ suǒ qiāyí ānzhì zaì sǎ Mǎlìyà gè chéng de nàxiē mín , bù zhīdào nà dì zhī shén de guīju , suǒyǐ nà shén jiào shīzi jìnrù tāmen zhōngjiān , yǎo sǐ tāmen .

27 Yàshù wáng jiù fēnfu shuō , jiào suǒ lǔ lái de jìsī huí qù yī gè , shǐ tā zhù zaì nàli , jiāng nà dì zhī shén de guīju zhǐjiào nàxiē mín .