Parallel Verses English Standard Version They also feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. King James Bible 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. American Standard Version So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. Douay-Rheims Bible And nevertheless they worshipped the Lord. And they made to themselves, of the lowest of the people, priests of the high places, and they placed them in the temples of the high places. English Revised Version So they feared the LORD, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. Webster's Bible Translation So they feared the LORD, and made to themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 2 Kings 17:32 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentIn the earliest period of their settlement in the cities of Samaria the new settlers were visited by lions, which may have multiplied greatly during the time that the land was lying waste. The settlers regarded this as a punishment from Jehovah, i.e., from the deity of the land, whom they did not worship, and therefore asked the king of Assyria for a priest to teach them the right, i.e., the proper, worship of God of the land; whereupon the king sent them one of the priests who had been carried away, and he took up his abode in Bethel, and instructed the people in the worship of Jehovah. The author of our books also looked upon the lions as sent by Jehovah as a punishment, according to Leviticus 26:22, because the new settlers did not fear Him. העריות: the lions which had taken up their abode there. שׁם וישׁבוּ וילכוּ: that they (the priest with his companions) went away and dwelt there. There is no need therefore to alter the plural into the singular. The priest sent by the Assyrian king was of course an Israelitish priest of the calves, for he was one of those who had been carried away and settled in Bethel, the chief seat of Jeroboam's image-worship, and he also taught the colonists to fear or worship Jehovah after the manner of the land. This explains the state of divine worship in the land as described in 2 Kings 17:29. "Every separate nation (גּוי גּוי: see Ewald, 313, a.) made itself its own gods, and set them up in the houses of the high places (הבּמות בּית: see at 1 Kings 12:31, and for the singular בּית, Ewald, 270, c.) which the Samaritans (השּׁמרנים, not the colonists sent thither by Esarhaddon, but the former inhabitants of the kingdom of Israel, who are so called from the capital Samaria) had made (built); every nation in the cities where they dwelt." Treasury of Scripture Knowledge made unto themselves the houses 2 Kings 23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria... Cross References 1 Kings 12:31 He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. 2 Kings 17:25 And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD. Therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them. 2 Kings 17:33 So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. Ezra 4:2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here." Zephaniah 1:5 those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom, Jump to Previous Acted Acting Appointed Classes Extremities Feared Fearing High House Houses Lowest Offered Offerings Places Priests Sacrificed Sacrifices Shrines Sorts Themselves Worshiped WorshippingJump to Next Acted Acting Appointed Classes Extremities Feared Fearing High House Houses Lowest Offered Offerings Places Priests Sacrificed Sacrifices Shrines Sorts Themselves Worshiped WorshippingLinks 2 Kings 17:32 NIV2 Kings 17:32 NLT 2 Kings 17:32 ESV 2 Kings 17:32 NASB 2 Kings 17:32 KJV 2 Kings 17:32 Bible Apps 2 Kings 17:32 Biblia Paralela 2 Kings 17:32 Chinese Bible 2 Kings 17:32 French Bible 2 Kings 17:32 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |
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