Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:37
And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do forevermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
37. which he wrote for you ] The compiler of Kings considered, as we can gather from this expression, that ‘the statutes and ordinances’, even the whole Law, was written down for the Israelites, and was of divine origin. The quotations made above are found in Deuteronomy chapters 4, 5. and 6 If the compiler be, in this passage, drawing, as he assuredly does in a large part of his work, from a record nearly contemporary with the events, we have here, from some writer of the days of Hezekiah and Isaiah, a number of quotations which shew that, in some form, the fifth book of Moses belongs to a time anterior to the date which recent criticism has assigned to it. If he be here but recording his own ideas, it is manifest that he himself had no doubt about the early origin of the Book.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Which he wrote for you – It is worth observing here, first, that the author regards the whole Law as given to the Israelites in a written form; and secondly, that he looks on the real writer as God.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment which he wrote for you,…. On the two tables of stone:
ye shall observe to do for evermore; those commands relating to religious worship, especially the object of it, and to moral duties, being of eternal obligation; and all other statutes and ordinances of a ceremonial kind he ordered to be written for them, being such that they were to regard until the Messiah came, and a new world began:
and ye shall not fear other gods; which is repeated, that it might be observed, as it also afterwards is.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
which He wrote, &c. See note on Exo 17:14, and App-47.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the statutes: Lev 19:37, Deu 4:44, Deu 4:45, Deu 5:31-33, Deu 6:1, Deu 6:2, Deu 12:32, 1Ch 29:19, Psa 19:8-11, Psa 105:44, Psa 105:45
wrote for you: Deu 31:9, Deu 31:11, Neh 9:13, Neh 9:14
and ye shall not: 2Ki 17:35