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2 Kings 17:8
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6 aIn the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and bcarried Israel away to Assyria, cand placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.  
7 For aso it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had bfeared other gods,  
8 and ahad walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.  
9 Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves1 high places in all their cities, afrom watchtower to fortified city.  
10 aThey set up for themselves sacred pillars and bwooden images con every high hill and under every green tree.  
11 There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger,
12 for they served idols, aof which the Lord had said to them, b“You shall not do this thing.”  
13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His aprophets, bevery seer, saying, c“Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.”  
14 Nevertheless they would not hear, but astiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who bdid not believe in the Lord their God.  
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2 Kings 17:8

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 Exodus 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 II Kings 17:9-11, II Kings 17:17; "the high places" II Kings 17:9, II Kings 17:11; the "images" and "groves" II Kings 17:10; the causing of their children to "pass through the fire" II Kings 17:17; and the "worship of the host of heaven" II Kings 17:16 : under the latter would fall the principal points in II Kings 17:12, II Kings 17:16, II Kings 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."




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 17:8:

Hosea 13:6
Amos 8:9

 

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