
Text -- 2 Kings 17:16 (NET)




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Wesley: 2Ki 17:16 - -- They grew worse and worse; from a partial disobedience to some of God's laws, they fell by degrees to a total apostacy from all.
They grew worse and worse; from a partial disobedience to some of God's laws, they fell by degrees to a total apostacy from all.

The stars, as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus.
TSK -> 2Ki 17:16
TSK: 2Ki 17:16 - -- molten images : Exo 32:4, Exo 32:8; 1Ki 12:28; Psa 106:18-20; Isa 44:9, Isa 44:10
a grove : 2Ki 17:10; 1Ki 14:15, 1Ki 14:23, 1Ki 15:13, 1Ki 16:33
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Barnes -> 2Ki 17:16
Barnes: 2Ki 17:16 - -- In 2Ki 17:10 there is a reference to the old high-place worship, which was professedly a worship of Yahweh, but with unauthorized rites and emblems;...
In 2Ki 17:10 there is a reference to the old high-place worship, which was professedly a worship of Yahweh, but with unauthorized rites and emblems; here the reference is to Ahab’ s setting up a grove to Baal in the city of Samaria (marginal reference).
And worshipped all the host of heaven - Astral worship has not hitherto been mentioned as practiced by the Israelites. Moses had warned against it Deu 4:19; Deu 17:3, so that it no doubt existed in his day, either among the Canaanite nations or among the Arabians Job 31:26-28. Perhaps it was involved to some extent in the Baal worship of the Phoenicians, for Baal and Astarte were probably associated in the minds of their worshippers with the Sun and moon. Later in the history we shall find a very decided and well-developed astral worship prevalent among the Jews, which is probably Assyro-Babylonian (2Ki 21:3 note).
Poole -> 2Ki 17:16
Poole: 2Ki 17:16 - -- They left all the commandments of the Lord they grew worse and worse; from a partial disobedience to some of God’ s laws, they fell by degrees t...
They left all the commandments of the Lord they grew worse and worse; from a partial disobedience to some of God’ s laws, they fell by degrees to a total apostacy from all of them.
The host of heaven the stars, as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, &c. See Deu 4:19 .
Haydock -> 2Ki 17:16
Haydock: 2Ki 17:16 - -- Heaven: sun and mood; and the stars, which were like the soldiers of the two former. This expression is very common in Scripture.
Heaven: sun and mood; and the stars, which were like the soldiers of the two former. This expression is very common in Scripture.
Gill -> 2Ki 17:16
Gill: 2Ki 17:16 - -- And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God,.... Which their idolatry led them to; and indeed he that offends in one point is guilty of t...
And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God,.... Which their idolatry led them to; and indeed he that offends in one point is guilty of them all, Jam 2:10.
and made them molten images, even two calves; which they set up at Dan and Bethel, in the times of their first king Jeroboam, 1Ki 13:28.
and made a grove; as Ahab, another of their kings, did, 1Ki 16:33.
and worshipped all the host of heaven: not the angels, sometimes so called, but, besides the sun and moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus:
and served Baal; which was service to the sun, as Abarbinel interprets it; this was the god of the Zidonians Ahab worshipped, having married a princess of that people, 1Ki 16:31.

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 17:1-41
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 17:1-41 - --1 Hoshea's wicked reign.3 Being subdued by Shalmaneser, he conspires against him with So, king of Egypt.5 Samaria for sinning is led into captivity.24...
MHCC -> 2Ki 17:7-23
MHCC: 2Ki 17:7-23 - --Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the reasons of it g...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 17:7-23
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 17:7-23 - -- Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon by our historian, and ...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 17:7-23
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 17:7-23 - --
The causes which occasioned this catastrophe. - To the account of the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes, and of the transportation of its...
Constable: 2Ki 9:30--18:1 - --C. The Second Period of Antagonism 9:30-17:41
The kingdoms of Israel and Judah continued without an alli...

Constable: 2Ki 17:7-41 - --17. The captivity of the Northern Kingdom 17:7-41
The writer of Kings took special pains to expl...
