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2 Kings 17:41

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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.

2 Kings 17:17

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17:17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, 1  and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry. 2 

2 Kings 17:31

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17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 3  and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 4  the gods of Sepharvaim.
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[17:17]  1 sn See the note at 2 Kgs 16:3.

[17:17]  2 tn Heb “they sold themselves to doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering him.”

[17:31]  1 sn Nibhaz and Tartak were two Elamite deities. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 212.

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



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