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Verse 30. _THE MEN OF BABYLON MADE SUCCOTH-BENOTH_] This, literally,
signifies _the tabernacles of the daughters_ or _young_ _women_, and
most evidently refers to those public prostitutions of young v...
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Succoth-benoth probably represents a Babylonian goddess called
Zir-banit, the wife of Merodach. She and her husband were, next to Bel
and Beltis, the favorite divinities of the Babylonians.
Nergal, e...
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7. ASSYRIA CONQUERS ISRAEL AND THE CAPTIVITY
CHAPTER 17
_ 1. Hoshea, Israel's last king (2 Kings 17:1)_
2. Shalmaneser imprisons Hoshea (2 Kings 17:3)
3. Israel carried into captivity (2 Kings 17:...
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THE ORIGIN OF THE SAMARITANS. This is a somewhat mixed account. 2
Kings 17:24 describes the settlement of the land with captives from
other parts of the Assyrian empire, and the sending of a priest to...
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AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) emphasizing the
five nations brought into Palestine. Compare 2 Kings 17:24. Each
brought its own gods. Thus (according to the language of the O.T....
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_Succoth-benoth_ This name of the deity of the Babylonians is probably
(according to Rawlinson _Herod_. bk. i. p. 630) meant to represent the
Chaldæan goddess _Zir-banit_, the wife of Merodach (_i.e._...
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THE MEN OF BABYLON MADE SUCCOTH-BENOTH, &C.— We have here an account
of the idols, which were consecrated by the different nations
transplanted by the king of Assyria to Samaria. It is difficult,
howe...
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B. THE REPOPULATION OF SAMARIA 17:24-41
TRANSLATION
(24) And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava,
Hamath and from Sepharvaim, and made them dwell in the cities of
Samaria in...
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_AND THE MEN OF BABYLON MADE SUCCOTHBENOTH, AND THE MEN OF CUTH MADE
NERGAL, AND THE MEN OF HAMATH MADE ASHIMA,_
Succoth-benoth. - i:e., 'the tents or booths of the daughters,'
similar to those in wh...
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17:30 Cuth (a-12) Called 'Cuthah,' ver. 24....
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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, their...
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 17
HOSHEA’S RULE AS THE LAST KING OF *ISRAEL
V1 Hoshea, son of Elah, became king of *Israel. He did so in the 12th
yea...
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SUCCOTH-BENOTH. — The Hebrew spelling of this name has probably
suffered in transmission. The Babylonian goddess _Zirbânit_ or
_Zarpanitum_ (“seed-maker”) the consort of Merodach, appears to be
meant....
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וְ אַנְשֵׁ֣י בָבֶ֗ל עָשׂוּ֙ אֶת
־סֻכֹּ֣ות בְּנֹ֔ות וְ אַנְשֵׁי ־כ֔וּת
עָשׂ֖וּ אֶת ־נֵֽרְגַ֑ל וְ אַנְשֵׁ֥י...
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HOSHEA, AND THE FALL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM
B.C. 734-725
2 Kings 17:1
"As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon: the water."
Hosea 10:7
As a matter of convenience, we follow our Engli...
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THEY FEARED THE LORD AND SERVED THEIR OWN GODS
2 Kings 17:27
The policy of peopling Israel with other races was intended to keep
the land under cultivation, and to break the ties of fatherland, whic...
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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 had...
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And the men of Babylon made (q) Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth
made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
(q) Meaning that every country served the idol that was most esteemed
in the place t...
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_Socoth-benoth, "the tents of young women," who prostituted themselves
once in their lives at Babylon, in honour of Mylitta. (Herodotus ii.
199.) --- Nergel, "light." (Calmet) --- The Pyreia (Haydock)...
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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, as...
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But not merely this. "Elisha died and they buried him" (2 Kings
13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more
glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no do...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17.
Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu
was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of
Jehova...
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AND THE MEN OF BABYLON MADE SUCCOTHBENOTH,.... That is, those that
came from Babylon made and served an idol of this name, which,
according to the Jewish writers u, were the figures of an hen and
chic...
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And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made
Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
Ver. 30. _Succothbenoth._] This idol was made in the form of a hen
hurking her chickens....
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_The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth_, &c. In this and the
following verse are the names of the gods or goddesses which each
nation of these new-comers to Samaria and its vicinity set up. The
learn...
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1 Hoshea his wicked reigne.
3 Being subdued by Shalmaneser, hee conspireth against him with So
King of Egypt.
5 Samaria for their sinnes, is captiuated.
24 The strange nations, which were transplan...
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THE ORIGIN OF THE SAMARITANS...
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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 nin...
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24-41 The terror of the Almighty will sometimes produce a forced or
feigned submission in unconverted men; like those brought from
different countries to inhabit Israel. But such will form unworthy
th...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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2 Kings 17:30 men H582 Babylon H894 made H6213 (H8804) Benoth H5524
men H582 Cuth H3575 made H6213 (H8804) Nergal H5370 men H582 Hamath
H2574 made H6213 (H8804) Ashima H807
Babylon - 2 Kings 17:24
Cu...
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THE AFTERMATH OF THE FINAL ISRAELITE EXILE (2 KINGS 17:24).
We have become used to talking about The Exile, meaning the exile
resulting from the last days of Jerusalem, but in fact Israel suffered
man...
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2 Kings 17:23. _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 Sepharva...
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CONTENTS: Reign of Hoshea in Israel. Israel becomes tributary to
Assyrians. The sins of Israel.
CHARACTERS: God, Hoshea, Shalmaneser, So.
CONCLUSION: Those who forget God may themselves expect to be...
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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 there i...
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_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, and...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 17:1 The End of Israel. The authors describe
the uprooting and scattering of Israel, which was prophesied long
before (1 Kings 14:15) but was delayed because of God’s promises...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 17:9. CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID SECRETLY THINGS NOT RIGHT AGAINST
THE LORD—The word חפא has been rendered variously, as _secret
blasphemy, acts of treachery, dis...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 17:1
THE REIGN OF HOSHEA OVER ISRAEL. DESTRUCTION OF THE ISRAELITE KINGDOM,
AND THE GROUNDS OF IT RE-PEOPLING OF THE KINGDOM BY ASSYRIAN
COLONISTS.
2 KINGS 17:1
REIGN OF HOSHEA....
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Kings, chapter seventeen. In the seventeenth chapter, we come to the
death of the northern kingdom, the nation of Israel.
In the twelfth year when Ahaz was the king in Judah (2 Kings 17:1),
That's t...
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2 Kings 17:24; Genesis 2:13...