“ Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. ”
The Origin of the Samaritans. This is a somewhat mixed account. 2 Kings 17:24-28 describes the settlement of the land with captives from other parts of the Assyrian empire, and the sending of a p...
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
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, th...
They — i.e., the Ephraimites. Did. — Continued doing. After their former manner — i.e., they clung to the old-established cultus of the calves.
HOSHEA, AND THE FALL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM B.C. 734-725 2 Kings 17:1-41 "As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon: the water." Hosea 10:7 As a matter of convenience, we follo...
They Feared the Lord and Served Their Own Gods 2 Kings 17:27-41 The policy of peopling Israel with other races was intended to keep the land under cultivation, and to break the ties of fatherla...
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 ha...
See, Reader! the awful desolation of Samaria! Israel would not love her one true and most gracious God, and a God in covenant with her; therefore she shall here set up a multitude of dunghill gods, a...
Howbeit, they did not hearken, but did after their former manner. They did not repent of their idolatries, but persisted in them, and even when they were in captivity in Assyria, or such of them as...
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...
The Samaritans' Idolatry. B. C. 720. 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Bab...
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The Aftermath Of The Final Israelite Exile ( 2 Kings 17:24-41 ). We have become used to talking about The Exile, meaning the exile resulting from the last days of Jerusalem, but in fact Israel suf...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 17:24 . King of Assyria brought men from Babylon, &c.—Had the land been depopulated there would have seemed promise of the exiles’ return; but under...
2 Kings 17:23-24 . So was Israel carried away out of their own hand to Assyria this day. And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava and from Hamath, and from Se...
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 th...
And the King of Assyria brought men from Babylon. Subjects worth thinking about This fragment of Israelitish history brings under our notice four subjects which run through all human history, a...
EXPOSITION 2 Kings 17:1-12 THE REIGN OF HOSHEA OVER ISRAEL . DESTRUCTION OF THE ISRAELITE KINGDOM , AND THE GROUNDS OF IT RE - PEOPLING OF THE KINGDOM...
The Origin of the Samaritans
2 Kings 17:12 ; 2 Kings 17:34 ; 2 Kings 17:8 ; Deuteronomy 4:28 ; Jeremiah 13:23