Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:19
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
19. walked in the statutes of Israel ] Which were not of God’s ordinance but of Israel’s own devising. This was specially the case when the son of Jehoshaphat intermarried with a daughter of Ahab, and so brought in Baal-worship and its attendant abominations. The calf-worship however seems never to have come across the border, but to have remained in Israel.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
This verse and the next are parenthetical. Here again, as in 2Ki 17:13, the writer is led on from his account of the sins and punishment of the Israelites to glance at the similar sins and similar punishment of the Jews.
It was the worst reproach which could be urged against any Jewish king, that he walked in the way of the kings of Israel 2Ki 8:18; 2Ki 16:3; 2Ch 21:6; 2Ch 28:2. The Baal worship is generally the special sin at which the phrase is leveled; but the meaning here seems to be wider. Compare Mic 6:16.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Judahs idolatry and wickedness is here remembered, as an aggravation of the sin of the Israelites, which was not only evil in itself but scandalous and mischievous to their neighbour, who by heir examples were instructed in their wicked arts, and provoked to an imitation of them: see Hos 4:15, and compare Mat 18:7.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God,…. But were infected with the idolatry of the ten tribes, and drawn into it by their example, and persisted therein, notwithstanding what befell the ten tribes; which are aggravations of the sins of them both, see Jer 3:7,
but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made; worshipping the calves as they did, particularly in the times of Ahaz, he setting the example, see 2Ki 16:3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(19) Also Judah kept not . . .Judah was no real or permanent exception to the sins and punishment of Israel; she imitated the apostasy of her sister-kingdom, and was visited with a similar penalty.
The statutes of Israel which they made.See Note on 2Ki. 17:8 supra, and comp. Mic. 6:16, the statutes of Omri. According to 2Ki. 8:27; 2Ki. 16:3, Ahaziah and Ahaz especially favoured the idolatry practised in the northern kingdom. The example of her more powerful neighbour exercised a fatally powerful spell upon Judah.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
19. Also Judah This verse should be enclosed in a parenthesis, as it is merely a remark of the writer occasioned by the closing words of 2Ki 17:18; so that, says Thenius, “the parenthesis intimates that in truth Judah also was ripe for punishment.”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Ver. 19. Also Judah. ] Being the worse for Israel’s ill neighbourhood, Hos 4:14 and therefore the worse, because she should have been better by such a warning. Jer 3:8
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
but walked. Compare Athaliah (2Ki 8:18, 2Ki 8:27; 2Ki 16:3, &c).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Also Judah: 1Ki 14:22, 1Ki 14:23, 2Ch 21:11, 2Ch 21:13, Jer 2:28, Jer 3:8-11, Eze 16:51, Eze 16:52, Eze 22:2-16, Eze 23:4-13
walked: 2Ki 8:18, 2Ki 8:27, 2Ki 16:3
Reciprocal: Deu 27:15 – and putteth 2Ki 18:6 – kept 2Ch 12:1 – all Israel 2Ch 17:4 – not after Jer 14:19 – utterly Eze 23:13 – that they Hos 4:15 – yet Hos 5:5 – Judah Hos 12:2 – and will Amo 2:4 – Judah
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 17:19. Also Judah kept not, &c., but walked in the statutes of Israel Followed the idolatrous devices of the ten tribes, which they did most notoriously in the reign of Ahaz. And though his son Hezekiah made a noble reformation, it lasted no longer than his time, so extremely corrupted was the nation. Judahs idolatry and wickedness are here remembered as an aggravation of the sin of the Israelites, which was not only evil in itself, but mischievous to their neighbours, who by their examples were instructed in their wicked arts, and provoked to an imitation of them: see Hos 4:15; Mat 18:7. Those that bring sin into a country or family bring a plague into it, and will have to answer for all the mischief that follows.