_IN THE TWELFTH YEAR OF AHAZ KING OF JUDAH BEGAN HOSHEA THE SON OF ELAH TO REIGN IN SAMARIA OVER ISRAEL NINE YEARS._ In the twelfth year of Ahaz ... began Hoshea ... to reign. The statement in 2 Kings 15:30 may be reconciled with the present passage in the following manner: Hoshea conspired against... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD BUT NOT AS THE KINGS OF ISRAEL THAT WERE BEFORE_ _ AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, BUT NOT AS THE KINGS OF ISRAEL THAT WERE BEFORE HIM._ He did ... evil ... but not as the kings of Israel - or, as Sir H. Rawlinson exp... [ Continue Reading ]
_AGAINST HIM CAME UP SHALMANESER KING OF ASSYRIA; AND HOSHEA BECAME HIS SERVANT, AND GAVE HIM PRESENTS._ Shalmaneser - or Shalman (Hosea 10:14) [Septuagint, Salamanassar, the immediate successor of Tiglath-pileser]. The name of this Assyrian king has been traced on the Ninevite monuments as concern... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING OF ASSYRIA FOUND CONSPIRACY IN HOSHEA: FOR HE HAD SENT MESSENGERS TO SO KING OF EGYPT, AND BROUGHT NO PRESENT TO THE KING OF ASSYRIA, AS HE HAD DONE YEAR BY YEAR: THEREFORE THE KING OF ASSYRIA SHUT HIM UP, AND BOUND HIM IN PRISON._ The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea. Shalm... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE KING OF ASSYRIA CAME UP THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND, AND WENT UP TO SAMARIA, AND BESIEGED IT THREE YEARS._ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land. This was the third and final expedition of Shalmaneser against the whole of Syria, and it seems to have been after the lapse of... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THE NINTH YEAR OF HOSHEA THE KING OF ASSYRIA TOOK SAMARIA, AND CARRIED ISRAEL AWAY INTO ASSYRIA, AND PLACED THEM IN HALAH AND IN HABOR BY THE RIVER OF GOZAN, AND IN THE CITIES OF THE MEDES._ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria. Shalmaneser is not named as the conqueror... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR SO IT WAS, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD SINNED AGAINST THE LORD THEIR GOD, WHICH HAD BROUGHT THEM UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, FROM UNDER THE HAND OF PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT, AND HAD FEARED OTHER GODS,_ For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned. There is here given a very full and... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE KING OF ASSYRIA BROUGHT MEN FROM BABYLON, AND FROM CUTHAH, AND FROM AVA, AND FROM HAMATH, AND FROM SEPHARVAIM, AND PLACED THEM IN THE CITIES OF SAMARIA INSTEAD OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: AND THEY POSSESSED SAMARIA, AND DWELT IN THE CITIES THEREOF._ The King of Assyria brought men from Baby... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SO IT WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR DWELLING THERE, THAT THEY FEARED NOT THE LORD: THEREFORE THE LORD SENT LIONS AMONG THEM, WHICH SLEW SOME OF THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOWBEIT EVERY NATION MADE GODS OF THEIR OWN, AND PUT THEM IN THE HOUSES OF THE HIGH PLACES WHICH THE SAMARITANS HAD MADE, EVERY NATION IN THEIR CITIES WHEREIN THEY DWELT._ Howbeit every nation made gods of their own. These Assyrian colonists, however, though instructed in the worship and acknowled... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF BABYLON MADE SUCCOTHBENOTH, AND THE MEN OF CUTH MADE NERGAL, AND THE MEN OF HAMATH MADE ASHIMA,_ Succoth-benoth. - i:e., 'the tents or booths of the daughters,' similar to those in which the Babylonian damsels celebrated impure rites (Amos 2:8). Havernick, however, ('Introduction,'... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE AVITES MADE NIBHAZ AND TARTAK, AND THE SEPHARVITES BURNT THEIR CHILDREN IN FIRE TO ADRAMMELECH AND ANAMMELECH, THE GODS OF SEPHARVAIM._ Nibhaz - under that of a dog; that Egyptian form of animal worship having prevailed in ancient Syria, as is evident from the image of a large dog at the m... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_UNTO THIS DAY THEY DO AFTER THE FORMER MANNERS: THEY FEAR NOT THE LORD, NEITHER DO THEY AFTER THEIR STATUTES, OR AFTER THEIR ORDINANCES, OR AFTER THE LAW AND COMMANDMENT WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF JACOB, WHOM HE NAMED ISRAEL;_ Unto this day - the time of the Babylonian exile, when th... [ Continue Reading ]