Introduction
Hoshea's wicked reign, 2 Kings 17:1 , 2 Kings 17:2 . Shalmaneser comes up against him, makes him tributary, and then casts him into prison, 2 Kings 17:3 , 2 Kings 17:4 . He besieges Samaria three years; and at last takes it, and carries Israel captive into Assyria, and places them in different cities of the Assyrians and Medes, 2 Kings 17:5 , 2 Kings 17:6 . The reason why Israel was thus afflicted; their idolatry, obstinacy, divination, etc., 2 Kings 17:7-18 . Judah copies the misconduct of Israel, 2 Kings 17:19 . The Lord rejects all the seed of Israel, 2 Kings 17:20-23 . The king of Assyria brings different nations and places them in Samaria, and the cities from which the Israelites had been led away into captivity, 2 Kings 17:24 . Many of these strange people are destroyed by lions, 2 Kings 17:25 . The king of Assyria sends back some of the Israelitish priests to teach these nations the worship of Jehovah; which worship they incorporate with their own idolatry, 2 Kings 17:26-33 . The state of the Israelites, and strange nations in the land of Israel, 2 Kings 17:34-41 .
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