Parallel Verses English Standard Version However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner. King James Bible Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. American Standard Version Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. Douay-Rheims Bible But they did not hearken, but did according to their old custom. English Revised Version Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. Webster's Bible Translation Yet they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 2 Kings 17:40 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThis mixed cultus, composed of the worship of idols and the worship of Jehovah, they retained till the time when the books of the Kings were written. "Unto this day they do after the former customs." הראשׁנים המּשׁפּטים can only be the religious usages and ordinances which were introduced at the settlement of the new inhabitants, and which are described in 2 Kings 17:28-33. The prophetic historian observes still further, that "they fear not Jehovah, and do not according to their statutes and their rights, nor according to the law and commandment which the Lord had laid down for the sons of Jacob, to whom He gave the name of Israel" (see 1 Kings 18:31), i.e., according to the Mosaic law. חקּתם and משׁפּטם "their statutes and their right," stands in antithesis to והמּצוה התּורה which Jehovah gave to the children of Israel. If, then, the clause, "they do not according to their statutes and their right," is not to contain a glaring contradiction to the previous assertion, "unto this day they do after their first (former) rights," we must understand by וּמשׁפּטם חקּתם the statutes and the right of the ten tribes, i.e., the worship of Jehovah under the symbols of the calves, and must explain the inexactness of the expression "their statutes and their right" from the fact that the historian was thinking of the Israelites who had been left behind in the land, or of the remnant of the Israelitish population that had become mixed up with the heathen settlers (2 Kings 23:19-20; 2 Chronicles 34:6, 2 Chronicles 34:9, 2 Chronicles 34:33). The meaning of the verse is therefore evidently the following: The inhabitants of Samaria retain to this day the cultus composed of the worship of idols and of Jehovah under the form of an image, and do not worship Jehovah either after the manner of the ten tribes or according to the precepts of the Mosaic law. Their worship is an amalgamation of the Jehovah image-worship and of heathen idolatry (cf. 2 Kings 17:41). - To indicate the character of this worship still more clearly, and hold it up as a complete breach of the covenant and as utter apostasy from Jehovah, the historian describes still more fully, in 2 Kings 17:35-39, how earnestly and emphatically the people of Israel had been prohibited from worshipping other gods, and urged to worship Jehovah alone, who had redeemed Israel out of Egypt and exalted it into His own nation. For 2 Kings 17:35 compare Exodus 20:5; for 2 Kings 17:36, the exposition of 2 Kings 17:7, also Exodus 32:11; Exodus 6:6; Exodus 20:23; Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 5:15, etc. In 2 Kings 17:37 the committal of the thorah to writing is presupposed. For 2 Kings 17:39, see Deuteronomy 13:5; Deuteronomy 23:15, etc. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge they did not but they did Cross References 2 Kings 17:39 but you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies." 2 Kings 17:41 So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children--as their fathers did, so they do to this day. Jump to Previous Attention Custom Customs Earlier Former Hearken Hearkened Howbeit However Manner Persisted Practices WayJump to Next Attention Custom Customs Earlier Former Hearken Hearkened Howbeit However Manner Persisted Practices WayLinks 2 Kings 17:40 NIV2 Kings 17:40 NLT 2 Kings 17:40 ESV 2 Kings 17:40 NASB 2 Kings 17:40 KJV 2 Kings 17:40 Bible Apps 2 Kings 17:40 Biblia Paralela 2 Kings 17:40 Chinese Bible 2 Kings 17:40 French Bible 2 Kings 17:40 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. |