2 Kings 17:29

Translations

Modern

Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.

Traditional

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

Literal

And they were making, each nation its gods, and they set them up in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made—each nation in the cities where they dwelt there.

Latin

Et unaquæque gens fabricata est deum suum: posueruntque eos in fanis excelsis quæ fecerant Samaritæ, gens et gens in urbibus suis, in quibus habitabat.

Original

Hebrew

English

Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.

Notes

2 Kings 17:26–31

The king of Assyria was Sargon II. He ruled from 721 to 705 BC.
the God of the land … has sent lions: People in the ancient Near East believed a land's peace and success were tied to its god and religious practices.
One of the priests returned to Bethel, but his teachings on worshiping the Lord were likely influenced by Jeroboam I's religion and mixed with pagan practices.
The foreigners also continued to worship their own gods. They added the worship of Israel’s God to their own practices. Most of the false gods mentioned here are unknown. Jewish scribes may have changed their names.
Nergal was the Mesopotamian god of the underworld. Nibhaz and Tartak were probably Elamite gods.

2 Kings 17:24–41

The writer adds information about later events in Israel, like foreigners moving into the land and the mixed population's blended religious practices.

Theme notes and profiles

Arameans Assyria Samaritans

Related verses

1 Kings 12:31
Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
Micah 4:5
Though all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
Hosea 8:5–6
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Psalm 115:4–8
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Psalm 135:15–18
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Jeremiah 10:3–5
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
Romans 1:23
…and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Isaiah 44:9–20
All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.
1 Kings 13:32
…for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”

Places

Samaria: Capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel; Samaritan inhabitants

Glossary

Book of Micah High Place Jeroboam Kings, Books of First and Second Manasseh, Tribe of Nations Orontes Samaritans Syria, Syrians

Topics

Assyria: Idolatry of, Brought Into Samaria Babylon: Empire of Colonists From, Sent to Samaria Cuth: A District of Asia, from Which Colonists Were Transported to Samaria High Places: Signify a Place of Idolatrous Worship Judgments: Delivered: Into the Hands of the Assyrians Samaria: Country of: Foreign Colonies Distributed Among the Cities of, by the King of Assyria

2 Kings 17:29

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