images. statues
groves. 'Asherah. See note on Exodus 34:13, and App-42.
A Recapitulation of the Reasons for Israel's Captivity. The language recalls Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. The sins for which Israel is condemned are:...
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: Images and groves - Images of different idols, and places for...
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...
The Fall of Samaria This chapter relates the reign of Hoshea. He intrigued with Egypt and rebelled against Assyria; and Samaria, in consequence, w...
Images and groves. — Pillars and Asheras — i.e., sacred trunks. The second degree of guilt: the setting up of idolatrous symbols.
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."...
the Cause of Israel's Weakness 2 Kings 17:1-12 This chapter reads like a page from the books of the great white throne. Hoshea, the last king o...
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...
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...
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...
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 the...
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 tw...
The Wickedness of Israel. B. C. 730. ...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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 T...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 2 Kings 17:9 . Children of Israel did secretly things not right against the Lord —The word חפא has been rendere...
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 bega...
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...
EXPOSITION 2 Kings 17:1-12 THE REIGN OF HOSHEA OVER ISRAEL . DESTRUCTION OF THE ISRAELITE KINGDOM , AND THE GROUND...
The End of Israel as a Nation
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 eve...
1 Kings 14:23 ; 2 Kings 16:4 ; Deuteronomy 12:2 ; Deuteronomy 12:3 ; Deuteronomy 16:21 ; Exodus 34:13 ; Isaiah 57:5 ; Leviticus 26:1 ; Micah...
10 And they set them up imagesc and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: