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2 Kings 17:7 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 17 · verse 7
For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,2 Kings 17:7 · King James Version
2 Kings 17:7 in context
5Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8And 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.
9And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- PharaohParʻôhParoh, a general title of Egyptian kingsH6547 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- sinnedchâṭâʼproperly, to missH2398 →
- EgyptMitsrayimMitsrajimH4714 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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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