2 Kings 17:17

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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
sons	בְּנֵיהֶ֤ם be.nei.Hem	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
daughters	בְּנֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ be.no.tei.Hem	H1323	a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms… · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
pass	וַֽ֠יַּעֲבִירוּ Vai.ya.'a.vi.ru	H5674	to cross over · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
fire	בָּאֵ֔שׁ ba.'Esh	H784	fire (literally or figuratively) · preposition with the article + noun, common both genders singular absolute
used	וַיִּקְסְמ֥וּ vai.yik.se.Mu	H7080	properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
divination	קְסָמִ֖ים ke.sa.Mim	H7081	a lot · noun, common masculine plural absolute
enchantments	וַיְנַחֵ֑שׁוּ vay.na.Che.shu	H5172	properly · conjunction + verb, piel sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
sold	וַיִּֽתְמַכְּר֗וּ vai.yit.ma.ke.Ru	H4376	to sell · conjunction + verb, hithpael sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
do	לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת la.'a.Sot	H6213	to do or make · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
evil	הָרַ֛ע ha.Ra'	H7451	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) · definite article + adjective, masculine singular absolute
sight	בְּעֵינֵ֥י be.'ei.Nei	H5869	an eye (literally or figuratively) · preposition + noun, common feminine dual construct
LORD	יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
anger	לְהַכְעִיסֽוֹ le.hakh.'i.So	H3707	to trouble · preposition + verb, hiphil infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrough…
2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathe…
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an obs…
Ezekiel 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused thei…
1 Kings 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil i…
Psalms 106:37-38 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Leviticus 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desol…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:7-23

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 monarch (these things are overlooked) - but only from the First Cause. Observe, 1. It was the Lord that removed Israel out of his sight; whoever were the instruments, he was the author of this calamity. It was destruction from the Almighty; the Assyrian was but the rod of his anger, Isa 10:5. It was the Lord that rejected the seed of Israel, else their enemies could not have seiz…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 17:7

SAMARIA TAKEN, AND ISRAEL FOR THEIR SINS CARRIED CAPTIVE. (2Ki. 17:7-41) For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned--There is here given a very full and impressive vindication of the divine procedure in punishing His highly privileged, but rebellious and apostate, people. No wonder that amid so gross a perversion of the worship of the true God, and the national propensity to do reverence to idols, the divine patience was exhausted; and that the God whom they had forsaken permitted them to go into captivity, that they might learn the difference between His service and that of their despotic conquerors.

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 17:17

Sold themselves to do evil - Abandoned themselves to the will of the devil, to work all iniquity with greediness.

John Gill on 2 Kings 17:17

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire,.... To Baal or Moloch, which were the same, and represented the sun, which, as the above writer observes, presides in the element of fire; this was done either by way of lustration, or so as to be burnt, see 2 Kings 16:3. and used divination and enchantments: to get knowledge of what was to be done at present, or of things to come, neglecting the word of God and his prophets, and acting against the express law of God, Deuteronomy 18:10. and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger; as Ahab their king did, see 1 Kings 21:20, they were as much the servants of sin as if they had sold t…

Dictionary and topics

Enchantments — (1.) The rendering of Hebrew latim_ or _lehatim, which means “something covered,” “muffled up;” secret arts, tricks (Ex. 7:11, 22; 8:7, 18), by which the Egyptian magicians imposed on the credulity…
Assyria · Israelites — Israelites
Babylon · .Samaria — .Samaria
Character Of The Wicked · Sold under sin — Sold under sin
Divination · The Jews prone to — The Jews prone to
Fire · Children — Children
Forsaking God · Exemplified: Kingdom of Israel — Exemplified: Kingdom of Israel
Idolatry · .Human sacrifices — .Human sacrifices
Judgments · .Into the hands of the Assyrians — .Into the hands of the Assyrians

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Kings 17:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:7-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 17:7

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 17:17

John Gill on 2 Kings 17:17

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2 Kings 17:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:7-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 17:7

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 17:17

John Gill on 2 Kings 17:17

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 17:7-23

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 17:16-17

Rashi on 2 Kings 17:17