The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lafftur]

2 Kings 17:19 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.[/FONT]

 

[Lafftur]

[FONT=&quot]2 Kings 17:20 (NKJV)[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]And the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord [/FONT][FONT=&quot]rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His sight.[/FONT]

 

[Lafftur]

[FONT=&quot]2 Kings 17:21 (NKJV)[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]For He tore Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord, and made them commit a great sin. [/FONT]

 

[Lafftur]

2 Kings 17:22 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them, [/FONT]

 

[Lafftur]

2 Kings 17:23 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]until the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, [/FONT]as it is to this day.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 17:24 (NKJV)

Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.


NOTE: That is why the Jews hate the Samaritans, because they act like brothers but they aren't.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 17:25 (NKJV)

And it was so, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

 

[HisUnfailingLove]

2 Kings 17:26 English Standard Version (ESV)

"So the king of Assyria was told, “The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land.”

 

[HisUnfailingLove]

2 Kings 17:27 English Standard Version (ESV)

"Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land.”

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 17:28): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]28 So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria came to live in Bethel and taught them how to worship the Lord.

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 17:29): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]29 But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

 

[Josie223]

2 Kings 17: 30 NIV

The people from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, those from Kuthah made Nergal, and those from Hamath made Ashima;

 

[Josie223]

2 Kings 17: 31 NIV

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelek and Anammelek, the gods of Sepharvaim.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 17:32 (KJV)
So 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.

 

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[Mel85]

[h=1]2 Kings 17:35 King James Version (KJV)[/h][FONT=&quot]35 With 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:[/FONT]

 

[becc]

2 kings 17: 36. Kjv
But the Lord who brought you up out of the land of egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, Him shall ye fear and him shall ye worship and to Him shall ye do sacrifice.

 

[becc]

2 kings 17:37 kjv
And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandement, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do forevermore ; and ye shall not fear other gods.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 17:38 (KJV)

And the covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, nor shall you fear other gods.