2 Kings 17:24 WEB

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 2 Kings 17:1-41

C.—The Fall of the Kingdom of Israel, under Hoshea2 Kings 17:1-411In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began [omit began] Hoshea the son of Elah [became king] to reign [omit to reign] in Samaria over Israel nine years. 2And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. 3Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents 4[tribute] And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Kings 17:13-26

the End of Stiff-necked Disobedience 2 Kings 17:13-26 There are three leading counts in this terrible indictment against Judah and Israel: (1) idolatry; (2) the ignoring of the Law; and (3) disregard of the many warnings brought them by prophets and seers. And all were aggravated by the fact that they sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt. How greatly the complexion of our sins is deepened, when we remember the anguish by which we have been... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 17:1-41

While Ahaz occupied the throne of Judah, Hoshea, by the murder of Pekah, succeeded to the throne of Israel. His reign, too, was evil, although he did not descend to the depths of some of those who had preceded him. He was the last of the kings of Israel. The stroke of the divine judgment, long hanging over the guilty people, fell at last, and Shalmaneser came up against Israel, first making the people tributary, and after three years carrying them away captive. In this chapter the historian... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 17:24-41

The Aftermath Of The Final Israelite Exile (2 Kings 17:24-41 ). We have become used to talking about The Exile, meaning the exile resulting from the last days of Jerusalem, but in fact Israel suffered many exiles. Quite apart from the number taken into exile over the centuries as a result of invasions by foreign nations which sometimes consisted of whole communities (consider e.g. the servant girl of Naaman), there was a major exile when Assyria invaded northern Israel and annexed a large... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 17:24-41

2 Kings 17:24-Mark : . The Origin of the Samaritans.— This is a somewhat mixed account. 2 Kings 17:24-Hosea : describes the settlement of the land with captives from other parts of the Assyrian empire, and the sending of a priest to teach them “ the manner of the God of the country.” Next, 2 Kings 17:29-Micah : relates that the new settlers not only “ feared” ( i.e. worshipped) Yahweh, but also served their own gods. Finally ( 2 Kings 17:34-Mark :) there is a general statement regarding the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 17:24

The king of Assyria; either Shalmaneser, or rather his son and successor, Esar-haddon, Ezra 4:2, because this was a work of some time; and as his father had projected, and possibly begun this, so he executed or finished it; whence it is ascribed to him, rather than to his father. Babylon then was subject to the Assyrian monarch; but a few years after revolted from him, and set up another king; as appears both from sacred and profane histories. Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim; several places... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 17:7-32

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—2 Kings 17:9. Children of Israel did secretly things not right against the Lord—The word חפא has been rendered variously, as secret blasphemy, acts of treachery, dissimulating words; but its meaning, to cover, cloke, when taken with דְּבָרִים, may be accepted as they hid or concealed Jehovah from attention and homage by idolatrous intrusions, so that He was ignored. 2 Kings 17:17. Worshipped all the hosts of heaven—The idol Astarte represented the moon, and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 17:24-41

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—2 Kings 17:24. King of Assyria brought men from Babylon, &c.—Had the land been depopulated there would have seemed promise of the exiles’ return; but under the royal direction Assyrian subjects came in and possessed the sacred soil, making it the home of foreigners. This king, called here מֶלֶך אַשּׁוּר is regarded by many expositors as Esarhaddon; but a doubt naturally springs from the fact that Esarhaddon did not come to the throne for some twenty-six years... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:1-41

Kings, chapter seventeen. In the seventeenth chapter, we come to the death of the northern kingdom, the nation of Israel.In the twelfth year when Ahaz was the king in Judah ( 2 Kings 17:1 ),That's the king of the southern kingdom.Hoshea began to reign in Samaria over Israel. He reigned for nine years. He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD ( 2 Kings 17:1-2 ),So, unfortunately, Israel did not have one single king of which it was not testified that he did evil in the sight of the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 17:1-41

2 Kings 17:1 . The twelfth year of Ahaz. Hoshea did not get confirmed in the kingdom of nine years, for in 2 Kings 15:30 it is said that he began to reign the twentieth year of Jotham. Either there is some mistake in the transcriber, or there was an interregnum. 2 Kings 17:4 . So, king of Egypt. Dean Prideaux is confident, out of Diodorus Siculus and Herodotus, that this So is Sabacon, an Ethiopian by birth, who swayed the sceptre of Egypt. 2 Kings 17:6 . Placed them in Halah and in... read more