2Ki 17:30-41 - Commentary

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Text -- 2 Kings 17:30-41 (NET)

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17:30 The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the people from Cuth made Nergal, the people from Hamath made Ashima, 17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 17:32 At the same time they worshiped the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 17:33 They were worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which which they had been deported. 17:34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel. 17:35 The Lord made an agreement with them and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them. 17:36 Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him. 17:37 You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods. 17:38 You must never forget the agreement I made with you, and you must not worship other gods. 17:39 Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.” 17:40 But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices. 17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

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Names, People and Places:

· Adrammelech a god of the Assyrians for whom they burned their children,son of Sennacherib the King of Assyria in the time of Hezekiah

· Anammelech a pagan god of the Sepharvaim people

· Ashima a pagan goddess imported from Assyria into Sameria (OS)

· Avvites residents of the town of Avva/Ivva

· Babylon a country of Babylon in lower Mesopotamia

· Cuth a town NE of Babylon

· Egypt descendants of Mizraim

· hamath a town of Syria on the Orontes between Aleppo and Damascus (OS)

· Hamath a town of unknown location

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Jacob the second so of a pair of twins born to Isaac and Rebeccaa; ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel,the nation of Israel,a person, male,son of Isaac; Israel the man and nation

· Nergal a pagan god

· Nibhaz a pagan god

· Sepharvaim a town in a region 200 to 400 miles north of Damascus

· Sepharvites residents of the town of Sepharvaim

· Succoth-Benoth an idol made by Babylonians exiled to Samaria (IBD)

· Succoth-benoth an idol made by Babylonians exiled to Samaria (IBD)

· Tartak a pagan god

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NET Notes: 2Ki 17:30 This deity is unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 211-12.

NET Notes: 2Ki 17:31 Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim are unknown in extra-biblical literature. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.

NET Notes: 2Ki 17:32 Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the...

NET Notes: 2Ki 17:33 Heb “fearing.”

NET Notes: 2Ki 17:34 Heb “commanded.”

NET Notes: 2Ki 17:35 That is, the descendants of Jacob/Israel (see v. 35b).

NET Notes: 2Ki 17:36 Heb “and outstretched arm.”

NET Notes: 2Ki 17:40 This refers to the foreigners whom the king of Assyria settled in the land (see v. 35a).

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