George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Kings 17:17
Fire. See chap. xvi. 3. --- Delivered. Hebrew, "sold," 3 Kings xxi. 20., and 1 Machabees i. 16. (Calmet) --- To provoke. This was the consequence of their wickedness. (Worthington)
Fire. See chap. xvi. 3. --- Delivered. Hebrew, "sold," 3 Kings xxi. 20., and 1 Machabees i. 16. (Calmet) --- To provoke. This was the consequence of their wickedness. (Worthington)
Verse 2 Kings 17:17. _SOLD THEMSELVES TO DO EVIL_] Abandoned themselves to the will of the devil, to work all iniquity with greediness....
Compare 2 Kings 16:3 note, and see Leviticus 20:2 note....
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:...
A RECAPITULATION OF THE REASONS FOR ISRAEL'S CAPTIVITY. The language recalls Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. The sins for which Israel is condemned are: (_a_) the building of high places, pillars, and Asher...
PASS THROUGH THE FIRE. Compare Leviticus 18:21.Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 18:10. DIVINATION AND ENCHANTMENTS: i.e. traffic with evil spirits and demons, and familiar spirits. Identical with mo
_to pass through the fire_ Of the character of this Moloch-worship, see above 2 Kings 16:3, note. _used divination and enchantments_ The former word probably refers to some way of seeking out guidance...
The sins for which Israel was carried into captivity (Not in Chronicles) 7. _For_so _it was that_ R.V. AND IT WAS SO BECAUSE. A better form of introduction to this account of the causes of the captivi...
B. EXPLANATION OF THE CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL 17:7-23 TRANSLATION (7) And it came to pass because the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God who brought them up from the land of Egypt f...
_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....
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 ye...
AND THEY CAUSED... FIRE. — The _cultus_ of Moloch (2 Kings 16:3). USED DIVINATION AND ENCHANTMENTS. — Deuteronomy 18:10; Numbers 23:23. “Divinationibus inserviebant et auguriis” (Vulg.). Sold them
וַֽ֠ יַּעֲבִירוּ אֶת ־בְּנֵיהֶ֤ם וְ אֶת ־בְּנ
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...
THE END OF STIFF-NECKED DISOBEDIENCE 2 Kings 17:13 There are three leading counts in this terrible indictment against Judah and Israel: (1) idolatry; (2) the ignoring of the Law; and (3) disregard of...
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...
And they caused their sons and their daughters to (h) pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and (i) sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger....
Though the Lord is not accountable to any of his creatures for what he doth; yet is he graciously pleased to manifest the equity of his dealings, and to prove, even to the conviction of the sinner him...
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...
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 Jehovah...
AND THEY CAUSED THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE,.... To Baal or Moloch, which were the same, and represented the sun, which, as the above writer observes, presides in the eleme...
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Ver. 1...
_They followed vanity_ Idols; so called, because of their unprofitableness, impotency, and nothingness, and to show the folly and madness of idolaters. _And became vain_ By the long worship of idols t...
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...
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, a particularly horrible offense, AND USED DIVINATION AND ENCHANTMENTS, Deuteronomy 18:10, AND SOLD THEMSELVES TO DO EVIL IN THE...
THE END OF ISRAEL AS A NATION...
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...
7-23 Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the reasons of it given. It was destruction from the Almighty:...
SOLD THEMSELVES TO DO EVIL; of which phrase SEE POOLE ON "1 KINGS 21:20"....
2 Kings 17:17 sons H1121 daughters H1323 pass H5674 (H8686) fire H784 practiced H7080 (H8799) witchcraft H7081 soo
YHWH'S FINAL JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL BECAUSE OF ALL THEIR DISOBEDIENCE WILL RESULT IN THEIR BEING REMOVED IN THE SAME WAY AS HE HAD PREVIOUSLY CAST OUT THE NATIONS FROM BEFORE THEM (2 KINGS 17:7). Having d...
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...
_For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned._ A GREAT PRIVILEGE, WICKEDNESS, AND RUIN I. A great national privilege. We learn herefrom that the Infinite Governor of the world had given th...
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 d
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 17:7 THIS OCCURRED BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL HAD SINNED (v. 2 Kings 17:7). The authors of 1–2 Kings give only this simple explanation for
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 17:9. CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID SECRETLY THINGS NOT RIGHT AGAINST THE LORD—The word חפא has been rendered variously, as _secret blasphemy, acts of treachery, diss...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 17:1 THE REIGN OF HOSHEA OVER ISRAEL. DESTRUCTION OF THE ISRAELITE KINGDOM, AND THE GROUNDS OF
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 21:20; 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Chronicles 28:3; 2 Chronicles 33:6;...