And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
Ver. 10. In every high hill.] Where they "poured forth their whoredoms," Eze 16:20-26 and "this had been their custom from their youth." Eze 23:8
Verse 2 Kings 17:10. _IMAGES AND GROVES_] Images of different idols, and places for the abominable rites of _Ashtaroth_ or _Venus_....
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...
IMAGES. statues GROVES. _'Asherah._ See note on Exodus 34:13, and App-42....
_images and groves_ R.V. PILLARS AND ASHERIM UPON. On the -pillars" see note on 2 Kings 3:2, and on the Asherim, which were probably wooden images of a goddess Asherah, see on 2 Kings 13:6....
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....
17:10 columns (a-6) See ch. 3.2....
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...
IMAGES AND GROVES. — _Pillars and Asheras_ — _i.e.,_ sacred trunks. The _second_ degree of guilt: the setting up of idolatrous symbols....
וַ יַּצִּ֧בוּ לָהֶ֛ם מַצֵּבֹ֖ות וַ אֲשֵׁרִ֑ים...
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...
_Groves. Hebrew Asherim, Astarte or Venus, to whom "the groves" were consecrated, chap. xxi. 7., and xxiii. 4. (Calmet)_...
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 SET THEM UP IMAGES AND GROVES IN EVERY HIGH HILL, AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE. That is, statues and idols; for groves of trees could not be set under green trees; but they placed idols of ston...
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 set them up images, statues of Baal, AND GROVES, Ashera idols, dedicated to the heathen goddess Astarte, IN EVERY HIGH HILL AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE;...
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...
IMAGES: _ Heb._ statues...
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:...
No text from Poole on this verse....
2 Kings 17:10 up H5324 (H8686) pillars H4676 images H842 high H1364 hill H1389 green H7488 tree H6086...
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 14:23; 2 Kings 16:4; Deuteronomy 12:2; Deuteronomy 12:3;...