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As idols are “vanity” and “nothingness,” mere weakness and
impotence, so idolators are “vain” and impotent. Their energies
have been wasted, their time misspent; they have missed the real
object of th...
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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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A RECAPITULATION OF THE REASONS FOR ISRAEL'S CAPTIVITY. The language
recalls Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. The sins for which Israel is
condemned are: (_a_) the building of high places, pillars, and Asher...
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The sins for which Israel was carried into captivity (Not in
Chronicles)
7. _For_so _it was that_ R.V. AND IT WAS SO BECAUSE. A better form of
introduction to this account of the causes of the captivi...
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_he testified against_[R.V. UNTO] _them_ See above on verse 13.
_they followed vanity_ -Vanity" is constantly employed in Scripture of
false gods. They are nothing and can do nothing. Therefore to ha...
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B. EXPLANATION OF THE CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL 17:7-23
TRANSLATION
(7) And it came to pass because the children of Israel had sinned
against the LORD their God who brought them up from the land of Egypt
f...
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_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 MADE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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17:15 statutes, (b-5) As ver. 37 and Exodus 12:24 . vain, (c-31) Or
'vanity.'...
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VANITY] often applied to idols (1 Kings 16:13)...
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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
ye...
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AND THEY FOLLOWED VANITY, AND BECAME VAIN. — The same expression
occurs in Jeremiah 2:5. The word “vanity” (_hèbel_) has the
article. It denotes strictly _breath;_ and then that which is as
_transient...
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וַ יִּמְאֲס֣וּ אֶת ־חֻקָּ֗יו וְ אֶת
־בְּרִיתֹ
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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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THE END OF STIFF-NECKED DISOBEDIENCE
2 Kings 17:13
There are three leading counts in this terrible indictment against
Judah and Israel: (1) idolatry; (2) the ignoring of the Law; and (3)
disregard of...
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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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_Testimonies. The ceremonial law was in memory of some great
transactions, as the sabbath was of the creation; and the whole law
was given with great solemnity, in the presence of witnesses.
(Calmet)_...
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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 to prove, even to the conviction of the sinner him...
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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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_TRUE AND FALSE RELIGION_
‘They rejected His statutes … and they followed vanity.’
2 Kings 17:15
The end has come. Israel is about to be scattered, and never again to
be gathered together as a nati...
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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
Jehovah...
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AND THEY REJECTED HIS STATUTES, AND HIS COVENANT THAT HE MADE WITH
THEIR FATHERS,.... At Sinai and Horeb, see Exodus 24:8,
AND HIS TESTIMONIES WHICH HE TESTIFIED AGAINST THEM; calling heaven
and eart...
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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 hea...
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_They followed vanity_ Idols; so called, because of their
unprofitableness, impotency, and nothingness, and to show the folly
and madness of idolaters. _And became vain_ By the long worship of
idols t...
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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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And they rejected His statutes, the precepts of the covenant, AND HIS
COVENANT THAT HE MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS, AND HIS TESTIMONIES WHICH HE
TESTIFIED AGAINST THEM, warning them of the results of thei...
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THE END OF ISRAEL AS A NATION...
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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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7-23 Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but
briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the
reasons of it given. It was destruction from the Almighty:...
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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...
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2 Kings 17:15 rejected H3988 (H8799) statutes H2706 covenant H1285
made H3772 (H8804) fathers H1 testimonies H5715 t
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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 THE NATIONS FROM BEFORE THEM (2 KINGS 17:7).
Having d...
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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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_They followed vanity and became vain._
VANITY A DEADLY SIN
May I begin by explaining that these words are used as a summary of
the reason why the people of Israel were broken to pieces by the
attack...
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_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 that the Infinite
Governor of the world had given th...
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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 d
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 17:7 THIS OCCURRED BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF
ISRAEL HAD SINNED (v. 2 Kings 17:7). The authors of 1–2 Kings give
only this simple explanation for
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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, diss...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 17:1
THE REIGN OF HOSHEA OVER ISRAEL. DESTRUCTION OF THE ISRAELITE KINGDOM,
AND THE GROUNDS OF
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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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1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Kings 16:13; 1 Samuel 12:21; 2 Chronicles 33:2;...
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Vanity — Idols; so called because of their nothingness, impotency,
and unprofitableness; and by the long worship of idols, they were made
like them, vain, sottish, and senseless creatures....