2 Kings 17:29 BSB — MannaFest

2 Kings 17:29

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The “Samaritans” here are the Israelites. The temples built by them at the high places 1Ki 12:31; 1Ki 13:32 had remained standing at the time of their departure. They were now occupied by the new-comers, who set up their own worship in the old sanctuaries.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Like other heathens, they combined His worship with that of their own gods; and as they formed a promiscuous society from different nations or provinces, a variety of idols was acknowledged among them.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּהְי֣וּ	vai.yih.Yu	and they were	H1961 →
עֹשִׂ֔ים	'o.Sim	making	H6213 →
גּ֥וֹי	Goy	nation	H1471 →
גּ֖וֹי	Goy	nation	H1471 →
אֱלֹהָ֑יו	'e.lo.Hav	own gods its	H430 →
וַיַּנִּ֣יחוּ׀	vai.ya.Ni.chu	and they placed [them]	H5117 →
בְּבֵ֣ית	be.Veit	in [the] house of	H1004 →
הַבָּמ֗וֹת	ha.ba.Mot	the high places	H1116 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
עָשׂוּ֙	'a.Su	they had made	H6213 →
הַשֹּׁ֣מְרֹנִ֔ים	ha.Sho.me.ro.Nim	the Samaritans	H8118 →
גּ֥וֹי	Goy	nation	H1471 →
גּוֹי֙	goy	nation	H1471 →
בְּעָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם	be.'A.rei.Hem	in own cities their	H5892 →
אֲשֶׁ֛ר	'a.Sher	where	H834 →
הֵ֥ם	hem	they	H1992 →
יֹשְׁבִ֖ים	yo.she.Vim	[were] dwelling	H3427 →
שָֽׁם׃	Sham	there	H8033 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Micah 4:5
Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
leads to
- Zechariah 10:12
  I will strengthen them in the LORD, and in His name they will walk,” declares the LORD.
- Colossians 3:17
  And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
- Joshua 24:15
  But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods…
- Psalms 48:14
  For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
- Isaiah 2:5
  Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Through
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…
leads to
- 1 Kings 16:24
  He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver and built a city there, calling it Samaria after the name of Shemer, who had owned the hill.
- 1 Kings 13:2
  And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of…
Through
1 Kings 12:31
Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
leads to
- 2 Kings 17:32
  So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.