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2 Kings 17:7-9
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2 Kings 17:7-9
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A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History
7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of[a] Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped[b] other gods; 8 they observed the practices[c] of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before them,[d] and followed the example of the kings of Israel.[e] 9 The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right.[f] They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.
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- 2 Kings 17:7 tn Heb “and from under the hand of.” The words “freed them” for stylistic reasons replace the term “under.”
- 2 Kings 17:7 tn Heb “feared.”
- 2 Kings 17:8 tn Heb “walked in the customs.”
- 2 Kings 17:8 tn Heb “before the sons of Israel.”
- 2 Kings 17:8 tn Heb “and [the practices of] the kings of Israel which they did.”
- 2 Kings 17:9 tn The meaning of the verb וַיְחַפְּאוּ (vayekhappeʾu), translated here “said,” is uncertain. Some relate it to the verbal root חָפַה (khafah), “to cover,” and translate “they did it in secret” (see BDB 341 s.v. חָפָא). However, the pagan practices specified in the following sentences were hardly done in secret. Others propose a meaning “ascribe, impute,” which makes good contextual sense but has little etymological support (see HALOT 339 s.v. חפא). In this case Israel claimed that the Lord authorized their pagan practices.
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