2nd Kings Chapter 17 verse 2 Holy Bible
And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, yet not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
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He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.
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And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, but not as the kings of Israel that had been before him.
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
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He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
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and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, only, not as the kings of Israel who were before him;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. Hoshea's general attitude towards Jehovah was much the same as that of former kings of Israel. De maintained the calf-worship, leant upon "arms of flesh," and turned a deaf ear to the teaching of the prophets e.g, Hoshea and Micah, who addressed their warnings to him. But he was not guilty of any special wickedness - he set up no new idolatry; he seems to have allowed his subjects, if they pleased, to attend the festival worship at Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 30:11, 18). The rabbis add that when the golden calf of Bethel had been carried off by the Assyrians in one of their incursions, he did not replace it ('Seder Olam,' 2 Kings 22.); but it is not at all clear that the image was carried away until Hoshea's reign was over (see Dr. Pusey's comment on Barnes' NotesHosea 10:6 in his ' Minor Prophets,' p. 64).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) But not as the kings of Israel that were before him.--The preceding phrase is used of all the northern kings but Shallum, who only reigned a month, and had no time for the display of his religious policy. We can hardly assume that Hoshea abandoned the calf-worship of Bethel, but he may have discountenanced the cultus of the Baals and Asheras. The Seder Olam states that Hoshea did not replace the calf of Bethel, which, it assumes, had been carried off by the Assyrians in accordance with the prophecy of Hosea (Hosea 10:5). We may remember that the last sovereigns of falling monarchies have not always been the worst of their line--e.g., Charles I. or Louis XVI.
