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2 Kings 17:33 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 17 · verse 33
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.2 Kings 17:33 · King James Version
2 Kings 17:33 in context
31And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
32So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
33They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
34Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
35With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- nationsgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- fearedyârêʼfearingH3373 →
- servedʻâbadto workH5647 →
- mannermishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- godsʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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Never was land lost, we say, for want of an heir. When the children of Israel were dispossessed, and turned out of Canaan, the king of Assyria soon transplanted thither the supernumeraries of his own country, such as it could well spare, who should be servants to him and masters to the Israelites that remained;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-41