For he neither worshipped Baal, as many of his predecessors did; nor compelled the people to worship the calves; one of them, that of Dan, being destroyed, or carried away before, as the Hebrew writers affirm; nor, as some add, hindered those by force who were minded to go to Jerusalem to worship; and yet, the measure of the Israelites sins being now full, vengeance comes upon them without remedy: compare 2 Kings 23:26.
NOT AS THE KINGS OF ISRAEL THAT WERE BEFORE HIM - The repentance of a nation like that of an individual, may be “too late.” God is long-suffering; but after national sins have reached a certain height...
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:...
REIGN OF HOSHEA AND DESTRUCTION OF SAMARIA. Hoshea has been previously mentioned (2 Kings 15:30). According to the inscription of Tiglath-pileser, Hoshea was put on the throne by the Assyrians. Shalma...
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. NOT AS THE KINGS OF ISRAEL... BEFORE HIM: thus, we do not read that he opposed Hezekiah's invitation (2 Chronicles 30:5)....
_but not as the kings of Israel that were before him_ We have no record of the doings of Hoshea, so as to specify in what points he was better than his predecessors. A long persistence in evil doing h...
III. THE ASSYRIAN DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL AND THE DEPORTATION OF THE TEN TRIBES 17:1-41 Chapter 17 relates the sad story of how the Northern Kingdom fell to the Assyrian superpower. After narrating the...
_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...
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...
BUT NOT AS THE KINGS OF ISRAEL THAT WERE BEFORE HIM. — The preceding phrase is used of all the northern kings but Shallum, who only reigned a month, and had no time for the display of his religious po...
וַ יַּ֥עַשׂ הָ רַ֖ע בְּ עֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה
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 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...
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 he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, (a) but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. (a) Though he invented no new idolatry or impiety as others did, yet he sought help...
_Him. The Jews say, that he did not hinder his subjects from going to Jerusalem to adore. One of the golden calves had been sent away by Manahem, Osee x. 5. (Calmet) --- Yet under the less wicked king...
The Reader will do well, while reading this chapter, to keep in view what the prophets have said concerning the events recorded in those days. The prophets Isaiah and Hosea particularly merit our clos...
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 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 not worship Baal, as some of them had done; and he could not worship the calves, as...
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. Ver. 2. _But not as the kings of Israel that were before him._] For he suffered his sub...
_But not as the kings of Israel that were before him_ For he neither worshipped Baal, as many of his predecessors had done, nor compelled the people to worship the calves, one of which, that of Dan, b...
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 END OF ISRAEL AS A NATION...
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, since Jeroboam's calf-worship was not abolished under him, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him, he was not their equal in idola...
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...
1-6 When the measure of sin is filled up, the Lord will forbear no longer. The inhabitants of Samaria must have endured great affliction. Some of the poor Israelites were left in the land. Those who w...
2 Kings 17:2 did H6213 (H8799) evil H7451 sight H5869 LORD H3068 kings H4428 Israel H3478 before H6440...
THE REIGN OF HOSHEA KING OF ISRAEL C. 732/1-723/2 BC AND THE LAST DAYS OF ISRAEL (2 KINGS 17:1). The history here is very much telescoped. Hoshea had assassinated Pekah and he immediately then submitt...
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...
_In the twelfth year of Ahaz King of Judah began Hoshea._ ASPECTS OF A CORRUPT NATION Hoshea, the king here mentioned, was the nineteenth and last king of Israel. He lived about 720 years or more b....
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
THE EXTINCTION OF THE ISRAELITISH KINGDOM CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 17:2. DID EVIL … BUT NOT AS THE KINGS OF ISRAEL—Scripture merely records the fact, does not explain wherein Hoshea...
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...
2 Chronicles 30:5; 2 Kings 10:31; 2 Kings 13:11; 2 Kings 13:2;...
But not, &c. — For he neither worshipped Baal, as many of his predecessors did; nor compelled the people to worship the calves; (one of them, that of Dan, being destroyed, or carried away before, as t...