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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Kings 17 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > 2 Kings 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/16.htm" title="2 Kings 16">◄</a> 2 Kings 17 <a href="../2_kings/18.htm" title="2 Kings 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/2_kings/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Hoshea’s Reign over Israel</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the twelfth year of King Ahaz’s reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria for nine years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He did evil in the sight of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. Hoshea had sent messengers to King So of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The king of Assyria marched through the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.</p> <p class="title">A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>This happened because the Israelites sinned against the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>they observed the practices of the nations whom the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The Israelites said things about the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> their God that were not right. They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> angry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s command.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, “Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> their God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s command. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They abandoned all the commandments of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> and made him angry.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> was furious with Israel and rejected them; only the tribe of Judah was left. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> their God; they followed Israel’s example. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> rejected all of Israel’s descendants; he humiliated them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> and encouraged them to commit a serious sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Finally the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> rejected Israel just as he had warned he would do through all his servants the prophets. Israel was deported from its land to Assyria and remains there to this very day.</p> <p class="title">The King of Assyria Populates Israel with Foreigners</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The king of Assyria brought foreigners from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When they first moved in, they did not worship the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. So the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> sent lions among them and the lions were killing them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The king of Assyria was told, “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. He taught them how to worship the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the people from Cuth made Nergal, the people from Hamath made Ashima, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>At the same time they worshiped the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>They were worshiping the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> made an agreement with them and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Instead you must worship the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>You must never forget the agreement I made with you, and you must not worship other gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Instead you must worship the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/17-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>These nations are worshiping the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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