2 Kings 17:23
in 2 Kings 17Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
until Jehovah removed Israel out of his sight, as he spake by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
KJV
Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
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This verse in 2 Kings 17
Commentary
7 notes on this verseUntil the Lord removed Israel out of his sight,.... Suffered them to be carried captive into the land of Assyria: as he had said by all his servants the prophets; by Hosea, Amos, Micah, and others; see their prophecies, and also 1Ki 13:32, so was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day; the time of the writing this book; nor have they returned unto our days, nearly 2,800 years later.
This site's exposition
had torn Israel away from the house of David
on 2 Kings 17:21-23
They made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, who led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin. This is the root of the refrain from 1 Kings 14:16 to 2 Kings 23:15, and every northern king is measured against it.
This site's exposition
through all His servants the prophets
Barnes named the prophets behind this line: Moses at Leviticus 26:33 and Deuteronomy 28:36, Ahijah at 1 Kings 14:15, Hosea 9:3 and Amos 7:17. Ahijah had declared it when Jeroboam first became king of Israel. The LORD waited about two hundred years.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
"Faithless Israel has shown itself less guilty than false Judah." The letter of the text just read has something unclear that we need to understand first. Then, after this, if God wills, we shall know his mystical plan. He wants us then to know in these words, just as it is written in Kings, that the people were divided in those times into the kingdom of ten tribes under Jeroboam and the kingdom of two tribes under Roboam. And those under Jeroboam were called Israel, and those under Roboam Judah. And the division of the people persisted, according to the history, until today. For we know of nothing in the history that united Israel and Judah "into the same nation." Then Israel first, under Jeroboam and under his successors, sinned excessively, and Israel sinned so much beyond Judah that they were sentenced by providence to become captives "to the Assyrians until the sign," as the Scripture says. After this, the people of Judah also sinned, and as captives they were sentenced to Babylon, not until a sign, as Israel, but for "seventy years," as Jeremiah prophesied and Daniel also mentioned.
A commentator
Origen of AlexandriaFRAGMENTS FROM THE CATENA ON JEREMIAH 28.2 · Written before 253.
proposed
[The Lord] takes hold of two principal lions, the Assyrians and the Babylonians. According to the history in the fourth book of Kings, there are two. For Assyria removed the sons of Israel to Assyria "until today," but Babylon removed the sons of Judah "to Babylon." Except he did not say here first and second, but first and last. For the first lion is the antagonistic devil; he is a murderer.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Come and see what it was that did all this mischief, that broke their power and laid their honour in the dust; it was sin; that, and nothing else, separated between them and God. This is here very movingly laid open as the cause of all the desolations of Israel.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
As he had said by all his servants the prophets - The writer refers not only to the extant prophecies of Moses (Lev 26:33; Deu 4:26-27; Deu 28:36, etc.), Ahijah the Shilohite (marginal reference), Hosea Hos 9:3, Hos 9:17, and Amos Amo 7:17, but also to the entire series of warnings and predictions which prophet after prophet in a long unbroken succession had addressed to the disobedient Israelites 2Ki 17:13 on their apostasy, and so leaving them wholly “without excuse” (see the 2Ki 17:13 note).
The words behind it
22 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַ֠ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | that | H834 → | 5497 times |
| הֵסִ֨יר | hesir | he removed | H5493 → | 299 times |
| יְהוָ֤ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| מֵעַ֣ל | meal | from on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| פָּנָ֔יו | panav | face his | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר | kaasher | just as | H834 → | 5497 times |
| דִּבֶּ֔ר | diber | he had spoken | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| בְּיַ֖ד | beyad | by [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| עֲבָדָ֣יו | ʾavadav | servants his | H5650 → | 799 times |
| הַנְּבִיאִ֑ים | haneviim | the prophets | H5030 → | 314 times |
| וַיִּ֨גֶל | vaiyigel | and it went into exile | H1540 → | 186 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| מֵעַ֤ל | meal | from on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| אַדְמָתוֹ֙ | ʾadmato | land its | H127 → | 225 times |
| אַשּׁ֔וּרָה | ʾashurah | Assyria towards | H804 → | 151 times |
| עַ֖ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| הַיּ֥וֹם | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַזֶּֽה׃ פ | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
עַ֠דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
אֲשֶׁר־that
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
הֵסִ֨ירhe removed
hesirH5493 →299 times
יְהוָ֤הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
מֵעַ֣לfrom on
mealH5921 →5755 times
פָּנָ֔יוface his
panavH6440 →2123 times
כַּאֲשֶׁ֣רjust as
kaasherH834 →5497 times
דִּבֶּ֔רhe had spoken
diberH1696 →1141 times
בְּיַ֖דby [the] hand of
beyadH3027 →1618 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
עֲבָדָ֣יוservants his
ʾavadavH5650 →799 times
הַנְּבִיאִ֑יםthe prophets
haneviimH5030 →314 times
וַיִּ֨גֶלand it went into exile
vaiyigelH1540 →186 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֜לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
מֵעַ֤לfrom on
mealH5921 →5755 times
אַדְמָתוֹ֙land its
ʾadmatoH127 →225 times
אַשּׁ֔וּרָהAssyria towards
ʾashurahH804 →151 times
עַ֖דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
הַיּ֥וֹםthe day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַזֶּֽה׃ פ<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the…
it leads to
- Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
- Deuteronomy 28:64
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…
- 1 Chronicles 5:26
So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And…
- Hosea 13:16
Through
1 Kings 14:16So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”
it leads to
- 1 Kings 16:2
“Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and…
- 1 Kings 15:30
because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he had provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
- 1 Kings 15:34
And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
- 1 Kings 16:2
Through
Amos 5:27Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
it leads to
- Acts 7:43
You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
- 2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the…
- Acts 7:43
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); F. W. Farrar, The Second Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 4.1.1-2 and Origen of Alexandria, FRAGMENTS FROM THE CATENA ON JEREMIAH 28.2.