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Text -- 2 Kings 17:1-15 (NET)
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Hoshea’s Reign over Israel
17:1 In the twelfth year of King Ahaz’s reign over Judah , Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel . He reigned in Samaria for nine years .
17:2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord , but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.
17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute .
17:4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt . Hoshea had sent messengers to King So of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria . So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.
17:5 The king of Assyria marched through the whole land . He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years .
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel to Assyria . He settled them in Halah , along the Habor (the river of Gozan ), and in the cities of the Medes .
A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History
17:7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God , who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt . They worshiped other gods ;
17:8 they observed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel , and followed the example of the kings of Israel .
17:9 The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right . They built high places in all their cities , from the watchtower to the fortress .
17:10 They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree .
17:11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry .
17:12 They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command .
17:13 The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers , “Turn back from your evil ways ; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law . I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.”
17:14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors , who had not trusted the Lord their God .
17:15 They rejected his rules , the covenant he had made with their ancestors , and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols , and so became worthless to the Lord. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Assyria |
Hoshea |
Captivity |
FEAR |
Apharsachites |
KINGS, BOOKS OF |
PALESTINE EXPLORATION, 2B |
SYRIAC VERSIONS |
Apharsathchites |
Apharsites |
Israel |
Rulers |
SAMARIA, COUNTRY OF |
Babylon |
Judgments |
Shalmaneser |
Gozan |
So |
Habor |
Siege |
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NET Notes: 2Ki 17:13 Heb “obey my commandments and rules according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants t...
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