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Also, the Asherah pole remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/nlt/2_kings/13.htm">New Living Translation</a> But they continued to sin, following the evil example of Jeroboam. They also allowed the Asherah pole in Samaria to remain standing. <a href="/esv/2_kings/13.htm">English Standard Version</a> Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.) <a href="/bsb/2_kings/13.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/kjv/2_kings/13.htm">King James Bible</a> Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.) <a href="/nkjv/2_kings/13.htm">New King James Version</a> Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the wooden image also remained in Samaria. <a href="/nasb_/2_kings/13.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Nevertheless they did not abandon the sins of the house of Jeroboam, into which he misled Israel; rather, they walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/nasb/2_kings/13.htm">NASB 1995</a> Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/nasb77/2_kings/13.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/lsb/2_kings/13.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/amp/2_kings/13.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Yet they did not turn from the [idolatrous] sins of the [royal] house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin; but walked in them. And the Asherah [set up by Ahab] also remained standing in Samaria [Israel’s capital]. <a href="/csb/2_kings/13.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> but they didn’t turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit. Jehoahaz continued them, and the Asherah pole also remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/hcsb/2_kings/13.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> but they didn&#8217t turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit. Jehoahaz walked in them, and the Asherah pole also remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/asv/2_kings/13.htm">American Standard Version</a> Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.) <a href="/erv/2_kings/13.htm">English Revised Version</a> Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.) <a href="/gwt/2_kings/13.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> But they didn't turn away from the sins that Jeroboam and his dynasty led Israel to commit. They continued to commit those sins. In addition, the pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/gnt/2_kings/13.htm">Good News Translation</a> But they still did not give up the sins into which King Jeroboam had led Israel, but kept on committing them; and the image of the goddess Asherah remained in Samaria. <a href="/isv/2_kings/13.htm">International Standard Version</a> Nevertheless, they did not change course away from the sins of Jeroboam's household, by which he caused Israel to sin, but continued on that same course, with Asherah poles remaining in place in Samaria. <a href="/msb/2_kings/13.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria. <a href="/net/2_kings/13.htm">NET Bible</a> But they did not repudiate the sinful ways of the family of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. There was even an Asherah pole standing in Samaria. <a href="/nheb/2_kings/13.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin; they walked in them. And the Asherah also remained in Samaria.) <a href="/wbt/2_kings/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked in them: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.) <a href="/web/2_kings/13.htm">World English Bible</a> Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.) <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_kings/13.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> only, they have not turned aside from the sins of the house of Jeroboam that he caused Israel to sin, therein they walked, and also, the Asherah has remained in Samaria— <a href="/ylt/2_kings/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> only, they have not turned aside from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, that he caused Israel to sin, therein they walked, and also, the shrine hath remained in Samaria, -- <a href="/slt/2_kings/13.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> But they turned not away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam who caused Israel to sin; he went in it: and also a statue stood in Shomeron.)<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_kings/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> But yet they departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin, but walked in them: and there still remained a grove also in Samaria. <a href="/cpdv/2_kings/13.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Yet truly, they did not withdraw from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had caused Israel to sin. Instead, they walked by them. And there was even a sacred grove still remaining in Samaria. <a href="/nabre/2_kings/13.htm">New American Bible</a> Nevertheless, they did not desist from the sins the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but persisted in them. The Asherah remained even in Samaria. <a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he caused Israel to sin, but walked in them; the sacred pole also remained in Samaria.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_kings/13.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, but walked in them; and also the idol worship remained in Samaria.) <a href="/hpbt/2_kings/13.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> However they did not pass from the sins of Yorbaam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, and they walked in them, also idol worship remained in Samaria.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/2_kings/13.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein; and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.-- <a href="/sep/2_kings/13.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Only they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who led Israel to sin: they walked in them - moreover the grove also remained in Samaria. <a href="/parallel/2_kings/13-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FiLs3w_mMFQ?start=4372" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_kings/13.htm">Jehoahaz Reigns in Israel</a> …5So the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel lived in their own homes as they had before. 6<a href="/hebrew/389.htm" title="389: ’aḵ (Adv) -- Surely, howbeit. Akin to 'aken; a particle of affirmation, surely; hence only.">Nevertheless,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">they did not</a> <a href="/hebrew/5493.htm" title="5493: sā·rū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To turn aside. Or suwr; a primitive root; to turn off.">turn away</a> <a href="/hebrew/2403.htm" title="2403: mê·ḥaṭ·ṭō·wṯ (Prep-m:: N-fpc) -- Or chattacth; from chata'; an offence, and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also an offender.">from the sins</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer- (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bêṯ- (N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">the house</a> <a href="/hebrew/3379.htm" title="3379: yā·rā·ḇə·‘ām (N-proper-ms) -- From riyb and am; people will contend; Jarobam, the name of two Israelite kings.">of Jeroboam</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">had caused Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/bāh (Prep:: 3fs) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/2398.htm" title="2398: hɛ·ḥɛ̆·ṭī (V-Hifil-Perf-3ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to miss; hence to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn.">to commit,</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: hā·lāḵ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">but they continued to walk in them.</a> <a href="/hebrew/842.htm" title="842: hā·’ă·šê·rāh (Art:: N-fs) -- Or masheyrah; from 'ashar; happy; Asherah a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same.">The Asherah pole</a> <a href="/hebrew/1571.htm" title="1571: wə·ḡam (Conj) -- Also, moreover, yea. ">even</a> <a href="/hebrew/5975.htm" title="5975: ‘ā·mə·ḏāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To take one's stand, stand. A primitive root; to stand, in various relations.">remained standing</a> <a href="/hebrew/8111.htm" title="8111: bə·šō·mə·rō·wn (Prep-b:: N-proper-fs) -- Capital of N. kingdom of Isr. From the active participle of shamar; watch-station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine.">in Samaria.</a> 7Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/judges/2-11.htm">Judges 2:11-13</a> And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. / Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, / for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. <a href="/1_kings/12-28.htm">1 Kings 12:28-30</a> After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” / One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan. / And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves. <a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm">1 Kings 16:31-33</a> And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal. / First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria. / Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him. <a href="/2_kings/10-29.htm">2 Kings 10:29</a> but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan. <a href="/2_kings/17-21.htm">2 Kings 17:21-23</a> When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin. / The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed and did not turn away from them. / Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day. <a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3-5</a> You shall have no other gods before Me. / You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. / You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, <a href="/deuteronomy/5-7.htm">Deuteronomy 5:7-9</a> You shall have no other gods before Me. / You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. / You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, <a href="/hosea/8-4.htm">Hosea 8:4-6</a> They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction. / He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? / For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria. <a href="/amos/5-25.htm">Amos 5:25-27</a> Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? / You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves. / Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts. <a href="/1_corinthians/10-14.htm">1 Corinthians 10:14</a> Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. <a href="/2_corinthians/6-16.htm">2 Corinthians 6:16-17</a> What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” / “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” <a href="/1_john/5-21.htm">1 John 5:21</a> Little children, keep yourselves from idols. <a href="/revelation/2-14.htm">Revelation 2:14</a> But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. <a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20</a> But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. <a href="/2_kings/17-16.htm">2 Kings 17:16-18</a> They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal. / They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. / So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained,</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)departed<a href="/2_kings/13-2.htm">2 Kings 13:2</a> And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.<a href="/2_kings/10-29.htm">2 Kings 10:29</a> Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.<a href="/2_kings/17-20.htm">2 Kings 17:20-23</a> 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… walked [heb] he walked<a href="/1_kings/15-3.htm">1 Kings 15:3</a> And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.<a href="/1_kings/16-26.htm">1 Kings 16:26</a> For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.<a href="/2_kings/17-16.htm">2 Kings 17:16</a> 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.<a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">2 Kings 18:4</a> He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.<a href="/2_kings/23-4.htm">2 Kings 23:4</a> And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm">Asherah</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-19.htm">Ashe'rah</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-2.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-2.htm">Commit</a> <a href="/2_kings/12-3.htm">Continued</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-2.htm">Depart</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-2.htm">Departed</a> <a href="/1_kings/16-33.htm">Grove</a> <a href="/2_kings/12-20.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-27.htm">Image</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-5.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-2.htm">Jeroboam</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-2.htm">Jerobo'am</a> <a href="/2_kings/12-3.htm">Nevertheless</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-1.htm">Samaria</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-1.htm">Sama'ria</a> <a href="/1_kings/22-46.htm">Shrine</a> <a 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href="/2_kings/13-9.htm">Sama'ria</a> <a href="/2_kings/23-7.htm">Shrine</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-11.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-11.htm">Sins</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/6-33.htm">Standing</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-11.htm">Therein</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-11.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-11.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-11.htm">Walked</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-11.htm">Wherewith</a><div class="vheading2">2 Kings 13</div>1. <a href="/2_kings/13-1.htm">Jehoahaz's wicked reign</a> 3. <a href="/2_kings/13-3.htm">Jehoahaz, oppressed by Hazael, is relieved by prayer</a> 8. <a href="/2_kings/13-8.htm">Joash succeeds him</a> 10. <a href="/2_kings/13-10.htm">His wicked reign</a> 12. <a href="/2_kings/13-12.htm">Jeroboam succeeds him</a> 14. <a href="/2_kings/13-14.htm">Elisha dying, prophesies to Joash three victories over the Syrians</a> 20. <a href="/2_kings/13-20.htm">The Moabites invading the land, Elisha's bones raise a dead man.</a> 22. <a href="/2_kings/13-22.htm">Joash gets three victories over Ben-hadad</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" 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Jeroboam established golden calves at Bethel and Dan (<a href="/1_kings/12-28.htm">1 Kings 12:28-30</a>) to prevent the Israelites from worshiping in Jerusalem, leading them into sin. This idolatry became a recurring theme and a stumbling block for subsequent kings and the people of Israel. The phrase underscores the spiritual stubbornness and rebellion against God's commandments, as the Israelites continued in practices that were explicitly condemned in the Mosaic Law (<a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3-4</a>).but they continued to walk in them The continuation in sin indicates a deliberate choice to persist in idolatrous practices despite the prophetic warnings and judgments that had come upon Israel. This reflects a cultural and spiritual entrenchment in idolatry, showing the difficulty of breaking free from established sinful traditions. The phrase suggests a lack of repentance and a failure to heed the messages of prophets like Elijah and Elisha, who called Israel back to covenant faithfulness. This persistence in sin is a recurring theme in the Old Testament, illustrating the human tendency to resist divine correction.The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria The Asherah pole was a symbol of the Canaanite goddess Asherah, often associated with fertility and worshiped alongside Baal. Its presence in Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom, signifies the official endorsement of idolatry by the ruling authorities. This pole's continued existence indicates the depth of syncretism in Israelite worship, blending pagan practices with the worship of Yahweh. The Asherah pole's presence in Samaria is a testament to the failure of Israel's leaders to uphold the covenant and eradicate idolatry, as commanded in <a href="/deuteronomy/12-3.htm">Deuteronomy 12:3</a>. This idolatry would eventually lead to the downfall and exile of the northern kingdom, fulfilling the warnings given by the prophets.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jeroboam.htm">Jeroboam</a> The first king of the northern kingdom of Israel after the division of the united monarchy. He is known for leading Israel into idolatry by setting up golden calves in Bethel and Dan. 2. <a href="/topical/h/house_of_jeroboam.htm">House of Jeroboam</a> Refers to the dynasty and influence of Jeroboam, particularly his establishment of idol worship which became a persistent sin in Israel. 3. <a href="/topical/a/asherah_pole.htm">Asherah Pole</a> A sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations, associated with the worship of the goddess Asherah. It symbolizes the idolatry that persisted in Israel. 4. <a href="/topical/s/samaria.htm">Samaria</a> The capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, often a center of political and religious activity, including idolatry. 5. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The northern kingdom, distinct from Judah, often characterized by its struggle with idolatry and departure from the worship of Yahweh.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_unrepentant_sin.htm">The Danger of Unrepentant Sin</a> The persistence of Jeroboam's sin in Israel serves as a warning about the dangers of unrepentant sin and its ability to entrench itself in a community or nation. <a href="/topical/i/influence_of_leadership.htm">Influence of Leadership</a> Jeroboam's actions had lasting negative effects on Israel, illustrating the significant impact leaders have on the spiritual direction of their people. <a href="/topical/i/idolatry_in_modern_context.htm">Idolatry in Modern Context</a> While we may not worship physical idols today, anything that takes precedence over God in our lives can become an idol. We must be vigilant in identifying and removing these idols. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_true_worship.htm">The Importance of True Worship</a> The presence of the Asherah pole in Samaria highlights the need for true worship of God, free from syncretism and compromise. <a href="/topical/g/god's_patience_and_justice.htm">God's Patience and Justice</a> Despite Israel's continued sin, God showed patience, yet His justice eventually required action. This balance is a reminder of God's character and the need for repentance.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_kings_13.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Kings 13</a> <a href="/q/who_was_king_jehoahaz_biblically.htm">Who was King Jehoahaz in biblical history?</a> <a href="/q/how_did_hezekiah_invite_exiled_israel.htm">In 2 Chronicles 30:6, how could King Hezekiah send invitations throughout the northern kingdom if they had already been exiled according to 2 Kings 17?</a> <a href="/q/proof_of_samaria's_siege_and_cannibalism.htm">2 Kings 6:24-29: Is there any historical or archaeological proof of Samaria's siege and reported cannibalism?</a> <a href="/q/is_there_evidence_confirming_jehoahaz's_reign.htm">2 Kings 13:1-9 - Is there extrabiblical or archaeological evidence that confirms Jehoahaz's reign, or does the absence of such data cast doubt on the historicity of this passage?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/13.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6) Nevertheless they departed not.--The restoration of Divine favour did not issue in the abolition of the irregular worship introduced by Jeroboam I. as the state religion of the northern kingdom. This is written, of course, from the point of view of the Judaean editor of Kings, who lived long after the events of which he is writing in the period of the exile. It does not appear from the history of Elijah and Elisha, incorporated in his work, that either of those great prophets ever protested against the worship established at Bethel and Dan.The house of Jeroboam--Some MSS., the Syriac, Targum, and Arabic omit "house." But the specification of the dynasty is here very appropriate.But walked therein.--Rather, therein they walked; the reading of the LXX. (Alex.),Vulg., and Targum being probably correct. It is the conduct of the nation that is being described.And there remained the grove also in Samaria.--Rather, and moreover the Asherah stood (i.e., was set up) in Samaria. The Asherah was the sacred tree, so often depicted in Assyrian art. It symbolised the productive principle of nature, and was sacred to Ashtoreth. With the return of peace, and the renewal of prosperity, luxury also soon reappeared, and the idolatry that specially countenanced it lifted up its head again. (See the Note on <a href="/2_kings/17-16.htm" title="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.">2Kings 17:16</a>.)<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 6. - Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin. "The house of Jeroboam" is an unusual expression in this connection, and is scarcely appropriate, since every "house" had acted in the same way, Some manuscripts omit the word, and it is wanting in the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic versions. Thenius would cancel it. But walked therein; literally, he walked. But here again a corruption may be suspected. Instead of הָלָך we should read חָלְכוּ, which lost its final letter in consequence of the vau that immediately followed it. And there remained the grove also in Samaria. "The grove in Samaria" was that idolatrous emblem which Ahab had set up at Jezebel's suggestion (<a href="/1_kings/16-33.htm">1 Kings 16:33</a>), the nature of which has been much disputed. Some think that it was "an image of Astarte" (see 'Homiletic Commentary' on 1 Kings, p. 374); but more probably it was a mere emblem, analogous to the Assyrian "sacred tree." Its material may sometimes have been wood, but was perhaps more usually metal. The mistranslation "grove" originated with the Septuagint translators, who uniformly rendered אֲשֵׂרָה by ἄλσος. It is surprising that Jehu did not destroy the asherah together with the other idolatrous erections of Ahab in Samaria (<a href="/2_kings/10-26.htm">2 Kings 10:26-28</a>); but, for some reason or other, it seems to have been spared, and to have been still standing. So long as it stood, even if it did not attract the religious regards of any, it would be a standing dishonor to God, and would so increase the sin of the nation. Hence its mention in this passage. <a href="/commentaries/2_kings/13-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Nevertheless, אַ֠ךְ (’aḵ) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_389.htm">Strong's 389: </a> A particle of affirmation, surely they did not לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no turn away סָ֜רוּ (sā·rū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5493.htm">Strong's 5493: </a> To turn aside from the sins מֵחַטֹּ֧אות (mê·ḥaṭ·ṭō·wṯ) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2403.htm">Strong's 2403: </a> An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender that אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that the house בֵּית־ (bêṯ-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house of Jeroboam יָרָבְעָ֛ם (yā·rā·ḇə·‘ām) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3379.htm">Strong's 3379: </a> Jeroboam -- 'the people increase', the name of two Israelites kings had caused Israel יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc to commit, הֶחֱטִ֥יא (he·ḥĕ·ṭî) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2398.htm">Strong's 2398: </a> To miss, to sin, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, lead astray, condemn [but] they continued to walk in them. הָלָ֑ךְ (hā·lāḵ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> To go, come, walk The Asherah הָאֲשֵׁרָ֔ה (hā·’ă·šê·rāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_842.htm">Strong's 842: </a> A Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same even וְגַם֙ (wə·ḡam) Conjunctive waw | Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1571.htm">Strong's 1571: </a> Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and remained standing עָמְדָ֖ה (‘ā·mə·ḏāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5975.htm">Strong's 5975: </a> To stand, in various relations in Samaria. בְּשֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃ (bə·šō·mə·rō·wn) Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8111.htm">Strong's 8111: </a> Samaria -- capital of northern kingdom of Israel <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/2_kings/13-6.htm">2 Kings 13:6 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-6.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 13:6 Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_kings/13-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 13:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 13:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_kings/13-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 13:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 13:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>