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Text -- 2 Kings 17:16 (NET)

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17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Baal a pagan god,a title of a pagan god,a town in the Negeb on the border of Simeon and Judah,son of Reaiah son of Micah; a descendant of Reuben,the forth son of Jeiel, the Benjamite


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Stars | SYRIAC VERSIONS | SAMARIA, COUNTRY OF | QUEEN OF HEAVEN | PALESTINE EXPLORATION, 2B | KINGS, BOOKS OF | Idolatry | HOST OF HEAVEN | Groves | FEAR | CAPTIVITY | CALF, GOLDEN | Babylon | Baal | Assyria | Apharsites | Apharsathchites | Apharsachites | ASTROLOGY | ADORATION | more
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Word/Phrase Notes
Wesley , TSK

Word/Phrase Notes
Barnes , Poole , Haydock , Gill

Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes , Geneva Bible

Verse Range Notes
TSK Synopsis , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Keil-Delitzsch , Constable , Guzik

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

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.

Wesley: 2Ki 17:16 - -- The stars, as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus.

The stars, as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus.

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 wors...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

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 - -- 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 - -- 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 - -- 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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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Ki 17:16 Or “served.”

Geneva Bible: 2Ki 17:16 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 ( g...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

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 - --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 - -- 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 - -- 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...

Constable: 2Ki 17:7-23 - --The reasons for the captivity 17:7-23 In this section the writer catalogued Israel's tra...

Guzik: 2Ki 17:1-41 - --2 Kings 17 - The Fall of Israel A. The fall of Samaria. 1. (1-2) The evil reign of Hoshea. In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the s...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF KINGS, in the ancient copies of the Hebrew Bible, constitute one book. Various titles have been given them; in the Septu...

JFB: 2 Kings (Outline) MOAB REBELS. (2Ki 1:1) AHAZIAH'S JUDGMENT BY ELIJAH. (2Ki 1:2-8) ELIJAH BRINGS FIRE FROM HEAVEN ON AHAZIAH'S MESSENGERS. (2Ki 1:9-16) AHAZIAH DIES, A...

TSK: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) The events detailed in these books (Kings) are highly interesting and important. The account of the wisdom, magnificence, and extended commerce of So...

TSK: 2 Kings 17 (Chapter Introduction) Overview 2Ki 17:1, Hoshea’s wicked reign; 2Ki 17:3, Being subdued by Shalmaneser, he conspires against him with So, king of Egypt; 2Ki 17:5, Sam...

Poole: 2 Kings 17 (Chapter Introduction) KINGS CHAPTER 17 Hoshea king of Israel, his wicked reign: being subdued by Shalmaneser king of Assyria, he conspireth against him with So king of E...

MHCC: 2 Kings 17 (Chapter Introduction) (2Ki 17:1-6) Reign of Hoshea in Israel, The israelites carried captives by the Assyrians. (v. 7-23) Captivity of the Israelites. (v. 24-41) The nati...

Matthew Henry: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Second Book of Kings This second book of the Kings (which the Septuagint, numbering from Samuel, ca...

Matthew Henry: 2 Kings 17 (Chapter Introduction) This chapter gives us an account of the captivity of the ten tribes, and so finishes the history of that kingdom, after it had continued about 265 ...

Constable: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) Introduction Second Kings continues the narrative begun in 1 Kings. It opens with the translation of godly Elijah to hea...

Constable: 2 Kings (Outline) Outline (Continued from notes on 1 Kings) 3. Ahaziah's evil reign in Israel -1 Kings 22:51-2...

Constable: 2 Kings 2 Kings Bibliography Ackroyd, Peter R. "An Interpretation of the Babylonian Exile: A Study of 2 Kings 20, Isaia...

Haydock: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) THE FOURTH BOOK OF KINGS. INTRODUCTION. This Book brings us to the conclusion of the kingdom of Israel, (chap. xvii.) and to the captivity of ...

Gill: 2 Kings (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS This, and the preceding book, are properly but one book divided into two parts, because of the size of it, as the book of S...

Gill: 2 Kings 17 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 17 This chapter relates the captivity of the ten tribes of Israel, and how it came about, 2Ki 17:1, the cause of it, their ...

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