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

Bible Comments

For he neither worshipped Baal, as many of his predecessors did; nor compelled the people to worship the calves; one of them, that of Dan, being destroyed, or carried away before, as the Hebrew writers affirm; nor, as some add, hindered those by force who were minded to go to Jerusalem to worship; and yet, the measure of the Israelites sins being now full, vengeance comes upon them without remedy: compare 2 Kings 23:26.

2 Kings 17:2

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.