2 Kings 17:29-34

29 Nevertheless, each national group made its own gods in the several towns where they settled, and set them up in the shrines the people of Samaria had made at the high places.

30 The people from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, those from Kuthah made Nergal, and those from Hamath made Ashima;

31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelek and Anammelek, the gods of Sepharvaim.

32 They worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed all sorts of their own people to officiate for them as priests in the shrines at the high places.

33 They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.

34 To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship the LORD nor adhere to the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

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2 Kings 17:29-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 17

This chapter relates the captivity of the ten tribes of Israel, and how it came about, 2Ki 17:1-6, the cause of it, their idolatry, which they persisted in, notwithstanding the remonstrances made against it, 2Ki 17:7-23, in whose stead were placed people from different parts, who exercised a mixed religion, partly Heathenish, and partly Israelitish, 2Ki 17:24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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1. Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 11:13
2. S Leviticus 26:30; S 1 Kings 12:31
3. Micah 4:5
4. 2 Kings 19:37
5. S ver 24
6. S 1 Kings 12:31
7. S Genesis 17:5; Genesis 32:28; Genesis 35:10; S 1 Kings 18:31

2 Kings 17:29-34

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2 Kings 17:29-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 17

Cross References 7