2 Kings 17:9

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Kings 17:1-12

the Cause of Israel’s Weakness 2 Kings 17:1-12 This chapter reads like a page from the books of the great white throne. Hoshea, the last king of Israel, did not follow in all the evil deeds of his eighteen predecessors, but the degeneracy of the nation was too far advanced for anything to arrest its collapse. The dry-rot had eaten its way through the specious covering. Worldly policy was the immediate cause of the nation’s downfall. Had they obeyed God simply and absolutely, they could have... 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 17:7-23

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 17:9

Things that were not right against the Lord: this belongs, either, 1. To their gross idolatries, and other abominable practices, which they were ashamed to own before others: compare Ezekiel 8:12. Or, 2. To the worship of calves; and so the words are otherwise rendered, and that agreeably to the Hebrew text, they cloaked, or disguised, or covered things that were not right against, or before, or towards the Lord, i.e. they covered their idolatrous worship of the calves with fair pretences of... 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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Kings 17:9

2 Kings 17:9And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right.Infatuation of sinAgain we come upon this report which we have had as it were a thousand times in identical terms. What is the wonderful charm of evil? Surely the philosophers have not answered that inquiry completely. There must be some peculiar inexpressible charm in evil, or men would no do it, and do it with both hands earnestly, and live in the doing of it, and reap in its execution some kind of harvest of... read more

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