2 Kings 17
Treated in 5 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 17:33 They feared the LORD, and they served their own gods, according to the custom of the nations from which they had been carried away. 3
- 17:32 They feared the LORD, but they also appointed priests of the high places from all sorts of their own people, who offered sacrifices for them in the shrines of the high places. 2
- 17:13 Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer: "Turn back from your evil ways. Keep my commandments and my statutes, in keeping with the whole law that I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets." 1
- 17:24 From Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim the king of Assyria brought people and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities. 1
- 17:25 When they first lived there they did not fear the LORD, so the LORD sent lions among them, and the lions killed some of them. 1
- 17:26 Word was brought to the king of Assyria: "The nations you carried away and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the god of the land. So he has sent lions among them, and they are killing them, because they do not know what the god of the land requires." 1
- 17:27 Then the king of Assyria gave orders: "Send back there one of the priests you carried away from there. Let him go and live there and teach them the custom of the god of the land." 1
- 17:28 So one of the priests who had been carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and he taught them how they should fear the LORD. 1
- 17:29 But each nation made its own gods and set them up in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made, each nation in the cities where it lived. 1
- 17:30 The people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the people of Cuth made Nergal, and the people of Hamath made Ashima. 1
- 17:31 The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, while the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire for Adrammelech and Anammelech, gods of Sepharvaim. 1
- 17:34 To this day they keep to their former customs. They do not truly fear the LORD, and they do not follow their statutes and rulings, or the law and the commandment that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, the man he named Israel. 1
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Where it is preached
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
Discourse 9 cites 2 Kings 17:33
…children, and their children’s children: As did their fathers, so do they unto this day. (2 Kings 17:33.) How nearly does the practice of most modern Christians resemble this of the ancient…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.1 The First Commandment cites 2 Kings 17: 33
…(2) Joining a false god with a true. ‘They feared the Lord, and served their own gods.’ 2 Kings 17: 33. These are forbidden in the commandment; we must adhere to the true God, and no other.…
- The Big Story ·
Fire on the Mountain cites 2 Kings 17:13
…and again with the same appeal: “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments” (2 Kings 17:13). The northern kingdom never really listened, and in 722 BC it fell to the Assyrian…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
VII. Persons having religious affections of many kinds, accompanying one another, is not sufficient to determine whether they have any gracious affections or no cites 2 Kings 17:32
…as in the Samaritans, “who feared the Lord, and served their own gods at the same time,” 2 Kings 17:32, 33; and those enemies of God we read of, Psal. 66:3, who, “through the greatness of…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 10 — Of the Power of Making Laws cites 2 Kings 17:24-34
…by wild beasts, because they knew not the judgment or statutes of the God of that land (2 Kings 17:24-34). Though they had done nothing wrong in ceremonies, still their empty show could not have…