Bible Commentary

Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 13. the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:13”

For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. 12. idols, whereof the Lord had said ] The prohibition is given in the Ten Commandments (Exo 20:4) and repeated in many parts of the Law (cf. Deu 4:16; Deu 5:8; Deu 27:15). Ye shall not do this … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:12”

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 11. as did the heathen ] R.V. the nations. And so again in verse 15. When a distinction is to be marked between God’s … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:11”

And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 10. images and groves ] R.V. pillars and Asherim upon. On the ‘pillars’ see note on 2Ki 3:2, and on the Asherim, which were probably wooden images of a goddess Asherah, see on 2Ki 13:6. Fuente: The Cambridge … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:10”

And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 9. And the children of Israel did secretly ] The verb here used occurs nowhere else in … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:9”

And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 8. and walked in the statutes of the heathen ] The book of Judges is full of instances of the way in which the people again … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:8”

For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, The sins for which Israel was carried into captivity (Not in Chronicles) 7. For … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:7”

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 6. in Halah ] Most likely this is the district which Ptolemy calls . It lies directly … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:6”

Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 5. throughout all the land ] It seems to have been the usual plan of invaders to overrun the places more easily conquerable before they assailed the chief stronghold. besieged it three years ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:5”

And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. 4. found conspiracy in Hoshea ] No … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:4”