Scofield Reference Bible Notes
2 Kings 17

2Ki 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.

Hoshea the son of Elah

2Ki 15:30.

2Ki 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.

Shalmaneser king of Assyria

2Ki 18:9.

2Ki 17:6 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.

carried Israel away into Assyria

Israel (history). 2Ki 17:6-23; 2Ki 24:10-16. (Gen 12:2, 3; Rom 11:26.)

2Ki 17:7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

sinned

Cf. Deuteronomy 28:15-68. From this captivity the ten tribes have never been restored to Palestine. A remnant of Judah returned under Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, and individuals out of the ten tribes (called, after the division of Solomon's kingdom, "Israel" in the historical books and Prophets, also "Ephraim" by the latter) went back, but the national restoration is yet to be fulfilled. See Palestinian Covenant, See Scofield Deuteronomy 30:3, Kingdom, Scofield 2 Samuel 7:8-17, refs.

2Ki 17:8 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.

heathen [See also 2Ki 17:11, 15.]

i.e. nations.

2Ki 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

groves [See also 2Ki 17:16.]

See Deu 16:21.

2Ki 17:13 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.

the seers

1Sa 9:9.

Turn ye from your evil ways

Jer 18:11; 25:5; 35:15.

2Ki 17:14 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.

hardened their necks

Deu 31:27; Pro 29:1.

2Ki 17:15 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 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.

they followed vanity

Deu 32:21; 1Ki 16:13.

and became vain

Psa 115:8; Rom 1:21.

2Ki 17:16 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.

made them molten images

1Ki 12:28.

2Ki 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.

used divination and enchantments

Deu 18:10.

2Ki 17:18 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.

the tribe of Judah only

1Ki 11:13, 32.

2Ki 17:20 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.

delivered them into the hand of spoilers

2Ki 13:3; 15:29.

2Ki 17:23 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.

the LORD removed Israel out of his sight

1Ki 14:16.

So was Israel carried away

2Ki 17:6.

2Ki 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought 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.

men from Babylon, and from Cuthah…and from Hamath

2Ki 17:30.

2Ki 17:25 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.

feared [See also 2Ki 17:28, 32, 33, 34, 36, 39, 41.]

Scofield Psalms 19:9, note.