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2 Kings 17:23 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 17 · verse 23
Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.2 Kings 17:23 · King James Version
2 Kings 17:23 in context
21For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
22For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
23Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
24And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
25And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- servantsʻebeda servantH5650 →
- prophetsnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- removedçûwrto turn offH5493 →
- AssyriaʼAshshûwrAshshur, the second son of ShemH804 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- sightpânîymthe faceH6440 →
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Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon by our historian, and the reasons of it assigned, not taken from the second causes - the weakness of Israel, their impolitic management, and the strength and growing greatness of the Assyrian…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-23