2 Kings 17:24-41 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:33

They feared the Lord, and served their own gods ,.... Worshipped both: after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence ; the Israelites, whom they had carried captive from Samaria; they worshipped the Lord in their idols, as they did, who pretended to worship God in the calves; so they worshipped the supreme God in and by their idols, and made use of them as mediators with him. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:34

Unto this day they do after the former manners ,.... Which may be understood either of the new colonies in Samaria doing after the former customs in their own land, or after the customs of the idolatrous Israelites; or of the Israelites in captivity continuing in their idolatry, not being in the least reformed by their troubles; or of such of them as were left in the land, who repented not of their idolatries, nor reformed from them: they fear not the Lord ; did not worship him, at least... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:35

With whom the Lord had made a covenant ,.... As he did at Sinai, 2 Kings 17:15 . and charged them, saying, ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them ; all which is contained in the first and second commandments of the law. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:36

But the Lord, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt, with a great power, and a stretched out arm ,.... Which is observed, to show the obligations they lay under, in point of gratitude, to serve the Lord: him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice : and him only, and not other gods; none but he being the object of religious fear and divine worship, and to whom sacrifices should be offered. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:37

And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment which he wrote for you ,.... On the two tables of stone: ye shall observe to do for evermore ; those commands relating to religious worship, especially the object of it, and to moral duties, being of eternal obligation; and all other statutes and ordinances of a ceremonial kind he ordered to be written for them, being such that they were to regard until the Messiah came, and a new world began: and ye shall not fear... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:38

And the covenant that I have made with you, ye shall not forget ,.... The law given at Mount Sinai; the first table of which chiefly concerned the worship of the one true and living God, and forbid the worship of any other, as follows: neither shall ye fear other gods ; or make them the object of worship. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:39

But the Lord your God ye shall fear ,.... Or worship him, both internally and externally, according to his revealed will; for the fear of God includes both internal and external worship: and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies ; that is, provided they feared and served him as he required, and it became them to do. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:40

Howbeit, they did not hearken, but did after their former manner. They did not repent of their idolatries, but persisted in them, and even when they were in captivity in Assyria, or such of them as were left in the land. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:41

So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images ,.... Just in like manner as the Israelites had done, who served the Lord and the calves, and worshipped God and Baal: both their children, and their children's children ; that is, the children and children's children of the Samaritans: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day ; to the writing of this book, which some ascribe to Jeremiah, to whose times, and even longer, they continued this mixed and mongrel... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 17:24

The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon - He removed one people entirely, and substituted others in their place; and this he did to cut off all occasion for mutiny or insurrection; for the people being removed from their own land, had no object worthy of attention to contend for, and no patrimony in the land of their captivity to induce them to hazard any opposition to their oppressors. By men from Babylon, we may understand some cities of Babylonia then under the... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:39

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:40

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 17:41

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 17:24

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