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Milo of Croton Attacked by a Lion (1795)
Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768 - 1832)
Neoclassical Style
Private Collection
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
SPECIAL NOTE:
[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no chapters will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]
Explanation: 2 Kings 17 describes the reign of the last king of Israel, Hoshea. And the chapter tells how Israel ceased to be a nation, leaving only the kingdom of Judah. In the aftermath of this dispersion, lion attacks were a vexing problem among the remnant and the mixed-multitude from other nations. [Kings of Judah and Israel #1. Kings of Judah and Israel #2].
Hoshea was the last king of Israel. His ways were evil, but less evil than his predecessors. Shalmaneser king of Assyria came against him; but Hoshea gave him presents and became his tributary. However, after some years, Hoshea stopped paying tribute and conspired with Egypt to break free of Assyria. Therefore the king of Assyria sent troops throughout the land of Israel, captured Hoshea, sent him to prison, and besieged Samaria, Israel's capital for three years (1-5).
When the king of Assyria took Samaria, he deported Israelites to various places in his kingdom (6).
These things came upon Israel because they sinned against the LORD and refused to listen to the word of the LORD which he sent through his prophets and seers (7-13).
Instead, they worshiped idols, sacrificed their children to false gods, and practiced witchcraft. Only Judah remained as a nation (14-18).
However, Judah committed the same sins as Israel; and, later, they too were removed from the land (19-20).
Hundreds of years prior to these events, Israel split from Judah and followed Jeroboam the son of Nebat in his idolatrous worship. Eventually, it was this idolatry that caused the LORD to remove them to Assyria (21-23).
And the King of Assyria placed people from various parts of his realm in Samaria and other parts of Israel. And at first they did not fear the LORD, until the LORD sent lions among them. So the king of Assyria chose a priest from among the captives and sent him to teach the people the ways of the LORD (24-28).
However, the foreign people still clung to their foreign gods and performed human sacrifice. They made the LORD one of the gods whom they worshiped; but they did not give up their other gods, nor did they turn from pagan practices (29-33).
The author of this Scripture said that the people continued in these pagan practices, "unto this day," meaning the days of the Babylonian Captivity. They continued to violate the Lord's covenant and his promise to deliver them from all of their enemies if they would be faithful to Him. But they did not listen (34-40).
"So these nations [that lived among the Israelite remnant in the land of Israel] feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day" (41).
[ Sermons: James Faris. Various. ]
[ Illustration: Today's painting depicts a lion attack. In the period covered in today's chapter, such attacks were a punishment for idolatry. ]
RESOURCES
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[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: 2 Kings 17:
[Chapter 17: Related Scriptures: 2 Kings 18:1-2; 2 Chronicles 28:27; 2 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Kings 18:9-12].
[1] 2 Kings 15:27; 2 Kings 16:1; 2 Kings 15:30.
[2] Hosea 10:5.
[4] 2 Kings 12:20; Jeremiah 11:9; Deuteronomy 19:18; Micah 6:12; Jeremiah 33:1; Jeremiah 36:5; Jeremiah 32:2-3.
[5] 2 Kings 18:11.
[6] Hosea 10:5; Micah 1:6; Isaiah 28:1-4; 1 Chronicles 5:26.
[7] Exodus 20:2; Hosea 11:1; Hosea 12:9.
[8] Exodus 12:14; Leviticus 20:23; 1 Kings 3:3.
[9] 2 Chronicles 26:10; 2 Kings 18:8.
[12] 1 Kings 15:19; Deuteronomy 29:16.
[14] Deuteronomy 10:16; Jeremiah 17:23; 2 Chronicles 36:13.
[15] Jeremiah 2:5; Job 7:16; Job 27:12.
[16] 1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 14:23; 1 Kings 16:33; Judges 2:13; Judges 3:7; Judges 6:28; 2 Kings 23:4; 1 Kings 18:19; 2 Chronicles 15:16; 2 Chronicles 24:18; 1 Kings 14:23; Isaiah 17:8; Isaiah 27:9; Judges 6:26; 2 Kings 17:10; Deuteronomy 16:21; Judges 6:28; 2 Kings 18:4; Isaiah 27:9; Deuteronomy 6:21; Micah 5:13; Judges 6:28; Jeremiah 7:18; Jeremiah 44:17; 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 23:4.
[17] Jeremiah 7:18; 2 Kings 16:3; Deuteronomy 18:10; Numbers 23:23; 1 Kings 21:20; 1 Kings 21:25.
[18] 1 Kings 11:36.
[19] Micah 6:16; 2 Kings 8:27; 2 Kings 16:3.
[20] 2 Kings 17:18-19; 2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 15:29; Judges 2:14.
[21] Amos 2:3; 2 Chronicles 21:11.
[23] Hosea 1:6; Hosea 9:16; Amos 3:11-12; Amos 5:27; Isaiah 28:1-4; 2 Chronicles 30:1; 2 Chronicles 34:9; 2 Kings 23:20; Deuteronomy 28:64.
[24] 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 19:13; Ezra 4:2.
[25] Leviticus 26:22; Exodus 23:29; Ezekiel 14:15.
[31] 2 Kings 19:37.
[32] 1 Kings 12:31.
[34] 2 Kings 23:19; 2 Chronicles 34:6; 2 Chronicles 34:9; 2 Chronicles 34:33; John 4:12.
-- From Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
HARMONY OF THE LAW
HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES
2 Kings Detailed Outline
2 Kings 17
Notes: In the Hebrew Bible 1 Kings and 2 Kings were one Book. Overlapping dates for various kings indicate overlapping reigns (co-regencies).
1. The Reign of Solomon (1 Kings 1:1 - 1 Kings 11:43) - 971 - 931 B.C. Israel
2. The Divided Kingdom (1 Kings 12:1 - 2 Kings 25:30) - 931 - 560 B.C. Israel
EE. Hoshea of Israel (2 Kings 17:1-41) - [732-722 B.C.] - [Last in Israel]
1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and bought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison [a house of detention.
5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged [inclosed upon] it three years.
6 In 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.
7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had bought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8 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.
9 And 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.
10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
15 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 [walked behind] vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
21 For 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.
22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
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.
24 And the king of Assyria bought 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.
25 And 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.
26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye bought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
29 Howbeit every nation [a nation of a nation] made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation [a nation of a nation] in their cities wherein they dwelt.
30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
32 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.
33 They feared [They became fearful of] the LORD, and served [they were serving] their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
34 Unto 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 [he put as his name] Israel;
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:
36 But the LORD, who bought 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.
37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
41 So these nations feared [They became fearful of] the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
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