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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 17:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 17:8 |
Strong Concordance |
And walked [03212] in the statutes [02708] of the heathen [01471], whom the LORD [03068] cast out [03423] from before [06440] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], and of the kings [04428] of Israel [03478], which they had made [06213]. |
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King James |
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Idolatry was worse in the Israelites than in other nations, since it argued not merely folly and a gross carnal spirit, but also black ingratitude Exo 20:2-3. The writer subdivides the idolatries of the Israelites into two classes, pagan and native - those which they adopted from the nations whom they drove out, and those which their own kings imposed on them. Under the former head would come the great mass of the idolatrous usages described in Kg2 17:9-11, Kg2 17:17; "the high places" Kg2 17:9, Kg2 17:11; the "images" and "groves" Kg2 17:10; the causing of their children to "pass through the fire" Kg2 17:17; and the "worship of the host of heaven" Kg2 17:16 : under the latter would fall the principal points in Kg2 17:12, Kg2 17:16, Kg2 17:21.
Which they had made - "Which" refers to "statutes." The lsraelites had "walked in the statutes of the pagan, and in those of the kings of Israel, which (statutes) they (the kings) had made." |
21 For he rent [07167] Israel [03478] from the house [01004] of David [01732]; and they made Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Nebat [05028] king [04427]: and Jeroboam [03379] drave [05080] [05077] Israel [03478] from following [0310] the LORD [03068], and made them sin [02398] a great [01419] sin [02401].
16 And they left [05800] all the commandments [04687] of the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and made [06213] them molten images [04541], even two [08147] calves [05695], and made [06213] a grove [0842], and worshipped [07812] all the host [06635] of heaven [08064], and served [05647] Baal [01168].
12 For they served [05647] idols [01544], whereof the LORD [03068] had said [0559] unto them, Ye shall not do [06213] this thing [01697].
16 And they left [05800] all the commandments [04687] of the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and made [06213] them molten images [04541], even two [08147] calves [05695], and made [06213] a grove [0842], and worshipped [07812] all the host [06635] of heaven [08064], and served [05647] Baal [01168].
17 And they caused their sons [01121] and their daughters [01323] to pass [05674] through the fire [0784], and used [07080] divination [07081] and enchantments [05172], and sold [04376] themselves to do [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], to provoke him to anger [03707].
10 And they set them up [05324] images [04676] and groves [0842] in every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086]:
11 And there they burnt incense [06999] in all the high places [01116], as did the heathen [01471] whom the LORD [03068] carried away [01540] before [06440] them; and wrought [06213] wicked [07451] things [01697] to provoke the LORD [03068] to anger [03707]:
9 And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] did secretly [02644] those things [01697] that were not right against the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and they built [01129] them high places [01116] in all their cities [05892], from the tower [04026] of the watchmen [05341] to the fenced [04013] city [05892].
17 And they caused their sons [01121] and their daughters [01323] to pass [05674] through the fire [0784], and used [07080] divination [07081] and enchantments [05172], and sold [04376] themselves to do [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], to provoke him to anger [03707].
9 And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] did secretly [02644] those things [01697] that were not right against the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and they built [01129] them high places [01116] in all their cities [05892], from the tower [04026] of the watchmen [05341] to the fenced [04013] city [05892].
10 And they set them up [05324] images [04676] and groves [0842] in every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086]:
11 And there they burnt incense [06999] in all the high places [01116], as did the heathen [01471] whom the LORD [03068] carried away [01540] before [06440] them; and wrought [06213] wicked [07451] things [01697] to provoke the LORD [03068] to anger [03707]:
2 I am the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], which have brought [03318] thee out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], out of the house [01004] of bondage [05650].
3 Thou shalt have no other [0312] gods [0430] before me [06440].