2 Kings 17:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

They followed vanity, i.e. idols; oft so called, because of their nothingness, impotency, and unprofitableness; and to show the folly and madness of idolaters. Became vain by the long worship of idols, they were made like them, vain, sottish, and senseless creatures.

2 Kings 17:15

15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.