2 Kings 17:1

CHAPTER XVII

Hoshea's wicked reign, 1, 2.

Shalmaneser comes up against him, makes him tributary, and

then casts him into prison, 3, 4.

He besieges Samaria three years; and at last takes it, and

carries Israel captive into Assyria, and places them in

different cities of the Assyrians and Medes, 5, 6.

The reason why Israel was thus afflicted; their idolatry,

obstinacy, divination, c., 7-18.

Judah copies the misconduct of Israel, 19.

The Lord rejects all the seed of Israel, 20-23.

The king of Assyria brings different nations and places them

in Samaria, and the cities from which the Israelites had been

led away into captivity, 24.

Many of these strange people are destroyed by lions, 25.

The king of Assyria sends back some of the Israelitish priests

to teach these nations the worship of Jehovah which worship

they incorporate with their own idolatry, 26-33.

The state of the Israelites, and strange nations in the land of

Israel, 34-41.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII