29<\/strong>. Howbeit every nation made gods of their own<\/em> ] When they beheld the calves of Dan and Bethel, they would see nothing higher in them than in their own objects of worship. So the adoption of the new form of worship would not draw them from the attachment to their earlier divinities.<\/p>\n the high places which the Samaritans<\/em> ] All was ready for the strangers to set up their idols in every place to which they came.<\/p>\n The Samaritans here are the Israelites. The temples built by them at the high places 1Ki 12:31<\/span>; 1Ki 13:32<\/span> had remained standing at the time of their departure. They were now occupied by the new-comers, who set up their own worship in the old sanctuaries.<\/P><\/p>\n Verse 29. Every nation made gods of their own<\/B><\/I>] That is, they made gods after the fashion of those which they had worshipped in their own country.<\/P> <\/p>\n Made gods of their own<\/B> or, worshipped<\/I>, (as that verb is sometimes used; of which see Exo 32:35<\/span>) i.e. those whom they worshipped in the places from whence they came, whose names here follow. <\/P> The Samaritans, <\/B>i.e. the former people, or inhabitants, not of the city, but of the kingdom of Samaria. <\/P> <\/p>\n 29. Howbeit every nation made godsof their own<\/B>These Assyrian colonists, however, thoughinstructed in the worship, and acknowledging the being of the God ofIsrael, did not suppose Him to be the only God. Like other heathens,they combined His worship with that of their own gods; and as theyformed a promiscuous society from different nations or provinces, avariety of idols was acknowledged among them.<\/P><\/p>\n Howbeit, every nation made gods of their own<\/strong>,…. Served and worshipped those they brought with them, and which were the work of their own hands, even the nations, or those out of the nations, mentioned 2Ki 17:24<\/span> these, notwithstanding the instructions they had about the worship of the God of Israel, retained and served their own deities: and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt; as the Israelites had built high places everywhere for idolatry, and put images in them, 2Ki 17:9<\/span> these Heathens placed their gods there in the room of them, which were as follow.<\/p>\n (29) Howbeit.<\/strong>And.<\/em> The colonists did not fear Jehovah in a monotheistic sense; they simply added<\/em> his cultus<\/em> to that of their ancestral deities.<\/p>\n The houses of the high places.<\/strong>The temples or chaples which constituted the sanctuaries of the different cities in the Samaritan territory.<\/p>\n The Samaritans<\/strong>i.e.,<\/em> the people of northern Israel. (Comp. Samaria<\/em> in 2Ki. 17:24<\/span>.)<\/p>\n Dwelt.<\/strong>Were dwelling. 29<\/strong>. <\/strong> Every nation made gods of their own <\/strong> While trying to observe the manner of the god of their new country they did not reject or neglect their old divinities. This was no inconsistency for a heathen, for none of these idolaters supposed that the gods of his own land were the only true divinities. <\/p>\n Houses of the high places <\/strong> Which the exiled Israelites had built, and which had been left standing in the various cities of Samaria. The Samaritans <\/strong> in this verse are not the new colonists, but the former Israelitish population, called Samaritans <\/em> from the name of their capital city.<\/p>\n 2Ki 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.<\/p>\n Ver. 29. Made gods of their own.<\/strong> ] Goodly gods, that were made of men. Olim truncus eram ficulnus, &c.<\/em> God made man after his own image, and men, to be even with him, will needs make gods after their image. See Rom 1:23<\/span> 2Co 8:5<\/span> . <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Every nation in the cities.<\/strong> ] So each city had its own god, and lest they should miss of the right, they closed their petitions with that general Diique deaeque omnes; <\/em> or, as Medics doth in the tragedy, O Deus quisquis es, vel in caelo vel in terra; <\/em> O God, whoever thou art in heaven or earth. a<\/em> But God requireth that we be at a better certainty. Heb 11:6 <\/em> Mat 16:15 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Servius in Georgic,<\/em> lib. i.<\/p>\n made gods: Psa 115:4-8, Psa 135:15-18, Isa 44:9-20, Jer 10:3-5, Hos 8:5, Hos 8:6, Mic 4:5, Rom 1:23 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 35:2 – strange Exo 20:3 – General Jdg 10:6 – the gods of Zidon 2Ki 17:32 – the houses<\/p>\n 2Ki 17:29. Howbeit, every nation made gods of their own Or, worshipped, as the Hebrew word here used sometimes means; of which see Exo 32:35. That is, they worshipped the gods which they had served in the places from whence they came. And put them in the high places which the Samaritans That is, which the former inhabitants of the city and kingdom had made.<\/p>\n Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. 29. 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