2 Kings 17
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In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

testified

Deuteronomy 8:19 And it shall be, if you do at all forget the LORD your God, and walk …

Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen …

Nehemiah 9:29,30 And testified against them, that you might bring them again to your …

Psalm 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify …

Psalm 81:8,9 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you will …

Jeremiah 42:19 The LORD has said concerning you, O you remnant of Judah; Go you …

Acts 20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward …

and against

2 Chronicles 36:15,16 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, …

Jeremiah 3:8-11 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed …

Hosea 4:15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and …

all [heb] the hand of all

Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day…

Joshua 23:16 When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which …

Judges 6:10 And I said to you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the …

Judges 10:11-14 And the LORD said to the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you …

1 Samuel 12:7-15 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the …

Isaiah 1:5-15,21-24 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: …

Jeremiah 5:29-31 Shall I not visit for these things? said the LORD: shall not my soul …

Zechariah 1:3-6 Therefore say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you …

seers

1 Samuel 9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he …

1 Chronicles 29:29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are …

Turn ye

Isaiah 1:16-20 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before …

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near…

Jeremiah 7:3-7 Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and …

Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants …

Jeremiah 25:4,5 And the LORD has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising …

Jeremiah 35:15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early …

Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; …

Hosea 14:1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; …

keep

Jeremiah 7:22,23 For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that …

Jeremiah 26:4-6 And you shall say to them, Thus said the LORD; If you will not listen …

Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

they rejected

Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: see, they …

his covenant

Exodus 24:6-8 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half …

Deuteronomy 29:10-15,25,26 You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains …

Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the …

testimonies

Deuteronomy 6:17,18 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, …

2 Chronicles 36:15,16 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, …

Nehemiah 9:26,29,30 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and …

Jeremiah 4:4,23 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of …

vanity

Deuteronomy 32:21,31 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have …

1 Samuel 12:21 And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain things, …

1 Kings 16:13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which …

Psalm 115:8 They that make them are like to them; so is every one that trusts in them.

Jeremiah 10:8,15 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine …

John 2:8 And he said to them, Draw out now, and bear to the governor of the …

became vain

Jeremiah 2:5 Thus said the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, …

Romans 1:21-23 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, …

1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered …

concerning whom

2 Kings 17:8,11,12 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out …

Deuteronomy 12:30,31 Take heed to yourself that you be not snared by following them, after …

2 Chronicles 33:2,9 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like to the …

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.
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

they caused

2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his …

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and …

Leviticus 18:21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, …

2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and …

Psalm 106:37,38 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to devils…

Ezekiel 20:26,31 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass …

Ezekiel 23:37,39 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and …

used

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and …

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …

2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley …

Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, …

Isaiah 47:9,12,13 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the …

Jeremiah 27:9 Therefore listen not you to your prophets, nor to your diviners, …

Micah 5:12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of your hand; and you shall have …

Acts 16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed …

Galatians 5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying …

sold

1 Kings 21:20,25 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, …

Isaiah 50:1 Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom …

in the sight

2 Kings 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen …

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and …

Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

rejected

2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with …

1 Samuel 15:23,26 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as …

1 Samuel 16:1 And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing …

Jeremiah 6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.

Romans 11:1,2 I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also …

all the seed

1 Chronicles 16:13 O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Nehemiah 9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and …

Isaiah 45:25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Jeremiah 31:36,37 If those ordinances depart from before me, said the LORD…

Jeremiah 33:24-26 Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families …

Jeremiah 46:28 Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, said the LORD: for I am with you…

delivered

2 Kings 13:3,7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered …

2 Kings 15:18-20,29 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed …

2 Kings 18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was …

2 Chronicles 28:5,6 Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; …

Nehemiah 9:27,28 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who …

until he had cast

2 Kings 17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out …

Deuteronomy 11:12 A land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your …

Jonah 1:3,10 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, …

Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, …

2 Thessalonians 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence …

For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

Babylon

2 Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, …

Succoth benoth Succoth benoth, literally `the tents of the daughters'

Cuth Cuth is probably the Cush watered by the Gihon, or Araxes, now Aras (

Genesis 2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasses …

Nergal Supposed to denote the solar orb; the emblem of which, according to the Rabbins, was a cock.

Ashima Jarchi says this idol was of the form of a goat.

And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

They feared

2 Kings 17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, …

1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt you between …

Hosea 10:2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall …

Zephaniah 1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven on the housetops; and them …

Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and …

Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, …

whom they carried, etc. or, who carried them away from thence. The new inhabitants of the land imitated the idolatrous Israelites, by associating their idols with jehovah, as the objects of worship. The remainder, however, of the verses seem to relate to the Israelites after they were carried captive. They still persevered in idolatry and disobedience; and not being purified, were left to be consumed in the furnace. it is said that the Israelites `did not fear the Lord,' yet the heathens, who followed their example, are said `to have feared the Lord.' The Israelites did not so much as fear the wrath of Almighty god; but, on the other hand, the poor pagans feared the power of his wrath, and to avert it paid some ignorant worship, according to the wretched instructions given them. as this was an external acknowledgement of his power and God-head, and a homage paid to him,he was pleased in consequence to withdraw his judgements from them.--SCOTT

Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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