What does 2 Kings 17:33 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence."
Verse 33. _THEY FEARED THE LORD, AND SERVED THEIR OWN GODS_] They did not relinquish their own _idolatry_ but _incorporated_ the worship of the true God with that of their idols. They were _afraid_ of...
Understand the passage thus: “They (the colonists) served their own gods after the manner of the nations from which they (the government) removed them,” i. e., after the manner of their own countrymen...
7. ASSYRIA CONQUERS ISRAEL AND THE CAPTIVITY CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Hoshea, Israel's last king (2 Kings 17:1)_ 2. Shalmaneser imprisons Hoshea (2 Kings 17:3) 3. Israel carried into captivity (2 Kings 17:...
THE ORIGIN OF THE SAMARITANS. This is a somewhat mixed account. 2 Kings 17:24 describes the settlement of the land with captives from other parts of the Assyrian empire, and the sending of a priest to...
FEARED. Compare 2 Kings 17:41, whom they carried away from thence: or, whence they (the settlers) had carried them away....
_They feared the Lord_ It seems almost as if the writer had repeated this phrase here and in the previous verse, and afterwards in verse 41, in mockery of this spurious reverence on which Jehovah coul...
DISCOURSE: 375 THE BIBLE STANDARD OF RELIGION 2 Kings 17:33. _They feared the Lord, and served their own gods._ THE views which men in general have of religion are extremely indistinct. Hence arises...
THEY FEARED THE LORD AND SERVED THEIR OWN GODS, &C.— The imaginary vengeance which the tutelary god was supposed to take on those, who, inhabiting his land, yet slighted his worship, was really taken...
B. THE REPOPULATION OF SAMARIA 17:24-41 TRANSLATION (24) And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath and from Sepharvaim, and made them dwell in the cities of Samaria in...
_SO THEY FEARED THE LORD, AND MADE UNTO THEMSELVES OF THE LOWEST OF THEM PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES, WHICH SACRIFICED FOR THEM IN THE HOUSES OF THE HIGH PLACES._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE FALL OF SAMARIA This chapter relates the reign of Hoshea. He intrigued with Egypt and rebelled against Assyria; and Samaria, in consequence, was taken and its people carried into captivity, their...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 17 HOSHEA’S RULE AS THE LAST KING OF *ISRAEL V1 Hoshea, son of Elah, became king of *Israel. He did so in the 12th yea...
THEY FEARED... GODS. — Literally, _Jehovah were they fearing, and their own gods were they serving._ The verse recapitulates 28-32. WHOM THEY CARRIED AWAY FROM THENCE. — Rather, _whence they had been...
אֶת ־יְהוָ֖ה הָי֣וּ יְרֵאִ֑ים וְ אֶת ־אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶם֙ הָי֣וּ עֹֽבְדִ֔ים כְּ מִשְׁפַּט֙ הַ גֹּויִ֔ם אֲשֶׁר...
HOSHEA, AND THE FALL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM B.C. 734-725 2 Kings 17:1 "As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon: the water." Hosea 10:7 As a matter of convenience, we follow our Engli...
THEY FEARED THE LORD AND SERVED THEIR OWN GODS 2 Kings 17:27 The policy of peopling Israel with other races was intended to keep the land under cultivation, and to break the ties of fatherland, whic...
While Ahaz occupied the throne of Judah, Hoshea, by the murder of Pekah, succeeded to the throne of Israel. His reign, too, was evil, although he did not descend to the depths of some of those who had...
They (r) feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. (r) That is, they had a certain knowledge of God, and feared him because of th...
See, Reader! the awful desolation of Samaria! Israel would not love her one true and most gracious God, and a God in covenant with her; therefore she shall here set up a multitude of dunghill gods, as...
But not merely this. "Elisha died and they buried him" (2 Kings 13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no do...
_HONORARY CHRISTIANS_ ‘They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations, whom they carried away from thence.’ 2 Kings 17:33 I. THIS IS THE REASON WHY SO MANY PEOPLE...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17. Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of Jehova...
THEY FEARED THE LORD, AND SERVED THEIR OWN GODS,.... Worshipped both: AFTER THE MANNER OF THE NATIONS WHOM THEY CARRIED AWAY FROM THENCE; the Israelites, whom they had carried captive from Samaria; t...
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. Ver. 33. _They feared the Lord._] _Religione mixta et interimistica._ See 2 Kings...
1 Hoshea his wicked reigne. 3 Being subdued by Shalmaneser, hee conspireth against him with So King of Egypt. 5 Samaria for their sinnes, is captiuated. 24 The strange nations, which were transplan...
THE ORIGIN OF THE SAMARITANS...
HOSHEA REIGNING IN ISRAEL (vv.1-4) Hoshea had conspired against and killed Pekah (ch.15:30), so that Hoshea began to reign over Israel in the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah. He reigned only nin...
WHOM THEY CARRIED AWAY FROM THENCE: Or, who carried them ways from thence...
24-41 The terror of the Almighty will sometimes produce a forced or feigned submission in unconverted men; like those brought from different countries to inhabit Israel. But such will form unworthy th...
THEY FEARED THE LORD; they worshipped God externally in that way which the Israelites used. SERVED THEIR OWN GODS, AFTER THE MANNER OF THE NATIONS WHOM THEY CARRIED AWAY FROM THENCE: these words belon...
2 Kings 17:33 feared H3373 LORD H3068 served H5647 (H8802) rituals H4941 nations H1471 away H1540 (H8689) They feared - 2 Kings 17:41; 1 Kings 18:21; Hosea 10:2; Zephaniah 1:5;...
THE AFTERMATH OF THE FINAL ISRAELITE EXILE (2 KINGS 17:24). We have become used to talking about The Exile, meaning the exile resulting from the last days of Jerusalem, but in fact Israel suffered man...
FEARED (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
2 Kings 17:23. _So was Israel carried away out of their own hand to Assyria this day. And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava and from Hamath, and from Sepharva...
CONTENTS: Reign of Hoshea in Israel. Israel becomes tributary to Assyrians. The sins of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Hoshea, Shalmaneser, So. CONCLUSION: Those who forget God may themselves expect to be...
2 Kings 17:1. _The twelfth year of Ahaz._ Hoshea did not get confirmed in the kingdom of nine years, for in 2 Kings 15:30 it is said that he began to reign the twentieth year of Jotham. Either there i...
_And the King of Assyria brought men from Babylon._ SUBJECTS WORTH THINKING ABOUT This fragment of Israelitish history brings under our notice four subjects which run through all human history, and...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 17:1 The End of Israel. The authors describe the uprooting and scattering of Israel, which was prophesied long before (1 Kings 14:15) but was delayed because of God’s promises...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 17:24. KING OF ASSYRIA BROUGHT MEN FROM BABYLON, &c.—Had the land been depopulated there would have seemed promise of the exiles’ return; but under the royal...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 17:1 THE REIGN OF HOSHEA OVER ISRAEL. DESTRUCTION OF THE ISRAELITE KINGDOM, AND THE GROUNDS OF IT RE-PEOPLING OF THE KINGDOM BY ASSYRIAN COLONISTS. 2 KINGS 17:1 REIGN OF HOSHEA....
Kings, chapter seventeen. In the seventeenth chapter, we come to the death of the northern kingdom, the nation of Israel. In the twelfth year when Ahaz was the king in Judah (2 Kings 17:1), That's t...
1 Kings 18:21; 2 Kings 17:41; Hosea 10:2; Luke 16:13; Matthew 6:24; Zephaniah 1:5...
They feared — They worshipped God externally in that way which the Israelites used. But every nation made gods of their own besides....