2 Könige 17:9

9 Und die Kinder Israel trieben wider Jehova, ihren Gott, heimlich Dinge, die nicht recht waren; und sie bauten sich Höhen in allen ihren Städten, von den Türmen der Wächter bis zu den festen Städten;

2 Könige 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 Könige 17:9 In-Context

7 Und dies geschah, weil die Kinder Israel gesündigt hatten wider Jehova, ihren Gott, der sie aus dem Lande Ägypten heraufgeführt hatte, unter der Hand des Pharao, des Königs von Ägypten, hinweg,

8 und weil sie andere Götter fürchteten und in den Satzungen der Nationen wandelten, die Jehova vor den Kindern Israel ausgetrieben, und der Könige von Israel, welche dieselben gemacht hatten.

9 Und die Kinder Israel trieben wider Jehova, ihren Gott, heimlich Dinge, die nicht recht waren; und sie bauten sich Höhen in allen ihren Städten, von den Türmen der Wächter bis zu den festen Städten;

10 und sie errichteten sich Bildsäulen und Ascherim auf jedem hohen Hügel und unter jedem grünen Baume,

11 und sie räucherten daselbst auf allen Höhen, wie die Nationen, die Jehova vor ihnen weggeführt hatte; und sie taten böse Dinge, um Jehova zu reizen;