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Verse 2 Kings 17:9. _DID SECRETLY_ THOSE _THINGS_] There was much
_hidden_ _iniquity_ and _private idolatry_ among them, as well as
public and notorious crimes.
_FROM THE TOWER OF THE WATCHMEN TO TH...
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Literally, the words run thus - “And the children of Israel
concealed (or ‘dissembled’) words which were not so concerning the
Lord their God;” the true meaning of which probably is, the
Israelites cl...
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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:...
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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...
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FROM THE TOWER... TO THE FENCED CITY: from the remote watchtower in
the country to the fortified city. the whole country....
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_And the children of Israel did secretly_ The verb here used occurs
nowhere else in the Bible, though one apparently cognate, and
differing only by a single letter, is found several times. This latter...
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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THE TOWER OF THE WATCHMEN] i.e. the watch towers erected for solitary
guardians of the vineyards and flocks in lonely localities, the phrase
FROM THE TOWER.. FENCED CITY thus embracing thinly and thic...
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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...
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DID SECRETLY. — The literal sense is _covered._ In this connection
it is natural to remember that Heb. verbs of _covering_ and _hiding_
are often used in the sense of dealing _perfidiously_ or
_deceit...
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וַ יְחַפְּא֣וּ בְנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל
דְּבָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר...
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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...
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THE CAUSE OF ISRAEL'S WEAKNESS
2 Kings 17:1
This chapter reads like a page from the books of the great white
throne. Hoshea, the last king of Israel, did not follow in all the
evil deeds of his eight...
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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...
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And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not
right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in
all their cities, from the tower (e) of the watchmen to the...
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_Offended. Hebrew, "They concealed (or spoke secretly; Haydock) words,
which were not right before the Lord:" (Calmet) being guilty of
hypocrisy or of blasphemy. (Haydock) --- Watchmen: the meanest hu...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID SECRETLY THOSE THINGS THAT WERE NOT
RIGHT AGAINST THE LORD THEIR GOD,.... As being partly conscious to
themselves that they were not right, and ashamed to commit them
op...
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And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not
right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in
all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenc...
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_And walked in the statutes of the heathen_ According to their laws
and customs in the worship of their Baals, and other of their sins.
_And of the kings of Israel, which_ statutes _they had made_ Had...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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THINGS THAT WERE NOT RIGHT AGAINST THE LORD: this belongs, either,
1. To their gross idolatries, and other abominable practices, which
they were ashamed to own before others: compare EZEKIEL 8:12. Or...
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2 Kings 17:9 children H1121 Israel H3478 secretly H2644 (H8762) LORD
H3068 God H430 things H1697 built H1129 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not
right._
INFATUATION OF SIN
Again we come upon this report which we have had as it were a thousand
times in identical terms. What is...
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_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...
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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
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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
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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...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 17:1
THE REIGN OF HOSHEA OVER ISRAEL. DESTRUCTION OF THE ISRAELITE KINGDOM,
AND THE GROUNDS OF
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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...
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2 Kings 18:8; Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 27:15; Ezekiel 8:12;...
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Did secretly — This belongs, either, To their gross idolatries, and
other abominable practices, which they were ashamed to own before
others; or, to the worship of calves: and so the words are otherwi...