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
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 17:24-41
Never was land lost, we say, for want of an heir. When the children of Israel were dispossessed, and turned out of Canaan, the king of Assyria soon transplanted thither the supernumeraries of his own country, such as it could well spare, who should be servants to him and masters to the Israelites that remained; and here we have an account of these new inhabitants, whose story is related here that we may take our leave of Samaria, as also of the Israelites that were carried captive into... read more