2 Reis 17:16, 2 Reis 17:17 NVT

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 17:7-23

YHWH’s Final Judgment On Israel Because Of All Their Disobedience Will Result In Their Being Removed In The Same Way As He Had Previously Cast Out The Nations From Before Them (2 Kings 17:7-23 ). Having described the taking away of the cream of the people of Israel into other lands the prophetic author gives his explanation of why YHWH has allowed such a thing. The philosophy of sin and retribution found here is essentially Mosaic, especially as brought out in Leviticus and Deuteronomy (to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 17:7-23

2 Kings 17:7-Isaiah : . A Recapitulation of the Reasons for Israel’ s Captivity.— The language recalls Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. The sins for which Israel is condemned are: ( a) the building of high places, pillars, and Asherim ( 2 Kings 17:9 f .; 1 Kings 12*, pp. 98– 100); ( b) idolatry ( 2 Kings 17:12; 2 Kings 17:16); ( c) making their children pass through the fire and using divination and enchantments (Isaiah 26); ( d) walking in the sins of Jeroboam (see 1 Kings 12). A statement of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 17:16

They left all the commandments of the Lord; they grew worse and worse; from a partial disobedience to some of God’s laws, they fell by degrees to a total apostacy from all of them. The host of heaven; the stars, as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, &c. See Deuteronomy 4:19. 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

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Kings 17:7-25

2 Kings 17:7-25For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned.A great privilege, wickedness, and ruinI. A great national privilege. We learn herefrom that the Infinite Governor of the world had given them at least three great advantages, political freedom, right to the ]and, and the highest spiritual teaching. He had given them,1. Political freedom. For ages they had been in political bondage, the mere slaves of despots; but here we are told that God had “brought them out of the land of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 17:16

2Ki 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. Ver. 16. And they left all the commandments of God. ] So they will soon do, who take liberty to leave any; for the whole law is but one copulative, as the schools speak. All the host of heaven. ] So the heavenly bodies, sun, moon, and stars are called, for their (1.) number; (2.) order; (3.) obedience. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Kings 17:16

molten images: Exodus 32:4, Exodus 32:8, 1 Kings 12:28, Psalms 106:18-Proverbs :, Isaiah 44:9, Isaiah 44:10 a grove: 2 Kings 17:10, 1 Kings 14:15, 1 Kings 14:23, 1 Kings 15:13, 1 Kings 16:33 worshipped: Deuteronomy 4:19, Jeremiah 8:2 Baal: 2 Kings 10:18-Hosea :, 2 Kings 11:18, 1 Kings 16:31, 1 Kings 22:53 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:21 - General Judges 10:6 - the gods of Zidon 2 Kings 13:6 - and there remained 2 Kings 18:6 - kept 2 Kings 21:3 - and worshipped 2 Kings 23:4 - Baal 2 Kings... read more