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cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/2_kings/17.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/2_kings/17.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/2_kings/17.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/2_kings/17.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/2_kings/17.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/2_kings/17.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/17.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/2_kings/17.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/2_kings/17.htm" 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title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/17.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(19) <span class= "bld">Also Judah kept not</span> <span class= "bld">. . .</span>—Judah was no real or permanent exception to the sins and punishment of Israel; she imitated the apostasy of her sister-kingdom, and was visited with a similar penalty.<p><span class= "bld">The statutes of Israel which they made.</span>—See Note on <a href="/2_kings/17-8.htm" title="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.">2Kings 17:8</a> <span class= "ital">supra,</span> and comp. <a href="/micah/6-16.htm" title="For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people.">Micah 6:16</a>, “the statutes of Omri.” According to <a href="/2_kings/8-27.htm" title="And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.">2Kings 8:27</a>; <a href="/2_kings/16-3.htm" title="But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.">2Kings 16:3</a>, Ahaziah and Ahaz especially favoured the idolatry practised in the northern kingdom. The example of her more powerful neighbour exercised a fatally powerful spell upon Judah.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/2_kings/17.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/2_kings/17-19.htm" title="Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.">2 Kings 17:19</a></span>. <span class="ital">Also Judah kept not, &c., but walked in the statutes of Israel — </span>Followed the idolatrous devices of the ten tribes, which they did most notoriously in the reign of Ahaz. And though his son Hezekiah made a noble reformation, it lasted no longer than his time, so extremely corrupted was the nation. Judah’s idolatry and wickedness are here remembered as an aggravation of the sin of the Israelites, which was not only evil in itself, but mischievous to their neighbours, who by their examples were instructed in their wicked arts, and provoked to an imitation of them: see <a href="/hosea/4-15.htm" title="Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not you to Gilgal, neither go you up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives.">Hosea 4:15</a>; <a href="/matthew/18-7.htm" title="Woe to the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!">Matthew 18:7</a>. Those that bring sin into a country or family bring a plague into it, and will have to answer for all the mischief that follows. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/2_kings/17.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>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, and the reasons of it given. It was destruction from the Almighty: the Assyrian was but the rod of his anger, Isa 10:5. Those that bring sin into a country or family, bring a plague into it, and will have to answer for all the mischief that follows. And vast as the outward wickedness of the world is, the secret sins, evil thoughts, desires, and purposes of mankind are much greater. There are outward sins which are marked by infamy; but ingratitude, neglect, and enmity to God, and the idolatry and impiety which proceed therefrom, are far more malignant. Without turning from every evil way, and keeping God's statutes, there can be no true godliness; but this must spring from belief of his testimony, as to wrath against all ungodliness and unrighteousness, and his mercy in Christ Jesus.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/2_kings/17.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>This verse and the next are parenthetical. Here again, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13</a>, the writer is led on from his account of the sins and punishment of the Israelites to glance at the similar sins and similar punishment of the Jews.<p>It was the worst reproach which could be urged against any Jewish king, that he "walked in the way of the kings of Israel" <a href="/2_kings/8-18.htm">2 Kings 8:18</a>; <a href="/2_kings/16-3.htm">2 Kings 16:3</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/21-6.htm">2 Chronicles 21:6</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/28-2.htm">2 Chronicles 28:2</a>. The Baal worship is generally the special sin at which the phrase is leveled; but the meaning here seems to be wider. Compare <a href="/micah/6-16.htm">Micah 6:16</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/2_kings/17.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>2Ki 17:7-41. Samaria Taken, and Israel for Their Sins Carried Captive.<p>7. 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.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/2_kings/17.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> Judah’s idolatry and wickedness is here remembered, as an aggravation of the sin of the Israelites, which was not only evil in itself but scandalous and mischievous to their neighbour, who by heir examples were instructed in their wicked arts, and provoked to an imitation of them: see <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/hosea/4-15.htm" title="Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not you to Gilgal, neither go you up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives.">Hosea 4:15</a></span>, and compare <span class="bldvs"> <a href="/matthew/18-7.htm" title="Woe to the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!">Matthew 18:7</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/2_kings/17.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God,.... But were infected with the idolatry of the ten tribes, and drawn into it by their example, and persisted therein, notwithstanding what befell the ten tribes; which are aggravations of the sins of them both, see <a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/3-7.htm">Jeremiah 3:7</a>, <p>but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made; worshipping the calves as they did, particularly in the times of Ahaz, he setting the example, see <a href="/2_kings/16-3.htm">2 Kings 16:3</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/2_kings/17.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/2_kings/17.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">19</span>. <span class="ital">walked in the statutes of Israel</span>] Which were not of God’s ordinance but of Israel’s own devising. This was specially the case when the son of Jehoshaphat intermarried with a daughter of Ahab, and so brought in Baal-worship and its attendant abominations. The calf-worship however seems never to have come across the border, but to have remained in Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/17.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 19.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God.</span> The sharp contrast which the writer has drawn between Israel and Judah in ver. 18 reminds him that the difference was only for a time. Judah followed in Israel's sins, and ultimately shared in her punishment. This verso and the next are parenthetic. <span class="cmt_word">But walked in the statutes of Israel which they made</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> followed Israel in all her evil courses, first in her Baal-worship, under Jehoram, Ahaziah, and Athaliah; then in her other malpractices under Ahaz (<a href="/2_kings/16-3.htm">2 Kings 16:3, 4</a>), Manasseh (<a href="/2_kings/21-2.htm">2 Kings 21:2-9</a>), and Amen (<a href="/2_kings/21-20.htm">2 Kings 21:20-22</a>). Of course, the calf-worship is excepted, Judah having no temptation to follow Israel in that. 2 Kings 17:19<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/2_kings/17.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>This conduct excited the anger of God, so that He removed them from His face, and only left the tribe (i.e., the kingdom) of Judah, although Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord and walked in the statutes of Israel, and therefore had deserved rejection. <a href="/2_kings/17-19.htm">2 Kings 17:19</a> contains a parenthesis occasioned by וגו שׁבט רק (<a href="/2_kings/17-18.htm">2 Kings 17:18</a>). 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