2 Kings 17

2. There is but one omnipotent power. If there be two omnipotents, then we must always suppose a contest between these two; that which one would do, the other power being equal would oppose, and so all things would be brought into a confusion. If a ship should have two pilots of…

Nor can the Amorites or Canaanites plead herein any hard measure. For, the same God, dealt afterward in the same justice with his own people, giving the kingdom of Judah to the Chaldeans, and Israel to the Assyrians: and the cause is laid down most memorably in the story; When t…

Jeroboam devised worship at Dan and Bethel, though he pretended by it to worship the true God, and advance the worship of Jehovah; yet he worshipped nothing but the Devils, and Calves that he made (2 Chronicles 11:15). And it became a sin to Jeroboam and his house, to destroy it…

Thus do many, as, 1. Such as live in any particular known sin, though it be secret: thus do many (2 Kings 17:9). There is secret drunkenness, and secret uncleanness, and secret neglects of duties, and closet work: now when persons live in secret sins, they do really though not m…

This seems a plain granting of the Synod's saying, and of their proof of it. Whereas the Synod said, That the parents in question are keepers of the covenant, because they are not forsakers, and rejecters of the God, and covenant of their fathers; and alleged for this (Deuterono…

We know that every transgression, or falling short of duty required in the Covenant, is not accounted in Scripture an absolute breach of the Covenant (or a forsaking and rejecting thereof) such as for which God gives to persons or people a bill of divorce. Do but compare these p…

Abijah therefore justly reproves the ten tribes for it, you have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands (2 Chronicles 23:9). And therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight, because they went after the heathen that wer…

Now for the understanding of this, we must consider to what this refers, what King of Israel this was, and when this was fulfilled. For that if you read 2 Kings 17, it has reference to the story there; and this King of Israel that is here spoken of, is Hoshea that was the last K…

When did they say so? The times that this refers to, seems to be those that we reade of in 2 Kings 17. If you read that Chapter, you shall find the times that this has reference to; then they might well say, We have no King; because we feared not the Lord: What then should a Kin…

Samaria was their chief City; as London is to England, so Samaria was the chief City to the ten Tribes: And Samaria shall fear. Samaria was a very strong City: And when the Assyrians came and carried away the ten Tribes captive, they took all the Country round about before they…

Some think it has reference to the Covenant that the People did make with Jeroboam at the first, and so with his Successors; that is thus, The People came to him and took their Oaths, and entred into solemn League, that they would stand by him in the breach that he made from the…

— or thereabouts, before the Babylonian captivity — transplanted to Samaria and to the other cities formerly inhabited by the ten tribes whom he had led away captive. That they were descended from Babel, Cuthah, Avah, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, sacred Scripture shows at 2 Kings 17:…

I. God most frequently complains through the prophets that His people wickedly worshipped the gods of all the nations everywhere, setting Him aside. It is evident, moreover, that this must be understood of the nations known to them; and the Holy Spirit Himself thus explains His…

That Tyrian Saturn was himself the Sun, the learned Vossius demonstrates at length. IX. Nor were Adrammelech and Anammelech different from this Molech — to whom the inhabitants of Sepharvaim burned their sons in fire (2 Kings 17:31). Adrammelech is the Hebrew for "magnificent ki…

In which part, by a usual manner of the Law, a part being put for the whole, as in the 6th, 7th, and 9th commandments, and that one of the foulest, look to note the filthiness of the rest, we are forbidden generally to acknowledge, love, delight in, desire, make or use, being ma…

This is one of the external acts, whereby the idolater shows the esteem of his heart, so (Jeremiah 2:27), saying to a stock, you are my Father; and to a stone, you have brought me forth. So under serving sacrifice is comprehended (2 Kings 17:35). You shall not fear other gods, n…

We need not stand to debate much about the verb 'To gather,' because it signifies nothing else but that the slaughter shall be like a harvest, which being once ended, others are permitted to glean the ears which lie scattered. For after that the ten tribes had been led captives,…

13. Where is the King of Hamath, and the King of Arpad, and the King of the Cities of Sepharvaim, Henah, and Ivah? Mention is made of Gozan, in (2 Kings 17:6). And from there we may gather that it was a city of the Medes, although others affirm that it was situated in another co…

For after Ahaz had called the Assyrians to help him, Rezin was slain by them (2 Kings 16:9). Pekah king of Israel died soon after, that is to wit, in the twelfth year of king Ahaz: and Hoshea the son of Ela reigned in his stead (2 Kings 17:1). Before the children then which shou…

Where he says "before, and behind," it answers to the common manner of speech, so as we need not seek a new or strange exposition. Let us learn by this example what it is to put confidence in the power of men, and in confederacies with princes, and especially when we grow secure…

So of godly Sorrow for Sin, as in Pharaoh, Saul, and Ahab, and the Children of Israel in the Wilderness; Exodus 9:27, 1 Samuel 24:16, 17, and 26:21, 1 Kings 21:27, Numbers 14:39, 40. And of the Fear of God, as in the Samaritans, who feared the Lord, and served their own Gods at…

The Church of Israel was continually prone to these Abominations; so that scarcely a Generation passed, or very few, wherein the Body of the People did not more or less defile themselves with them. To wean and recover them from this Sin was the Principal End of the Preaching of…

And sometimes in an extraordinary way it breaks forth for their supply. So you find in 2 Kings 17. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. the Cruse and Barrel sail not. Mr. Samuel Clarke, in the Life of that painful and humble servant of Christ Mr. John Fox, records a memorable Instance of Prov…

Bears rend the children that mocked Elisha (2 Kings 2:24). Lions destroy the strange nations in Samaria (2 Kings 17:25). Frogs, lice, boils, hail, rain, thunder, lightning, destroy the land of Egypt (Exodus 8, 9, 10).

Secondly, That we must have the Lord Jehovah for our God: Which forbids idolatry. Thirdly, That we must have the only true God the Lord Jehovah alone for our God: And this forbids Polytheism, or the worshipping of many gods; and Samaritanism, or the worshipping of false gods tog…

But God does make account, that that soul is not at all for him, that is not altogether for him, and not for another. Those nations feared not the Lord that joined their serving idols, with fearing the true God (2 Kings 17:33-34). There can no more be two chief delights in one h…

"I will not rend away all the kingdom: but will give one tribe to thy son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, which I have chosen," and so verses 32, 36. So when the ten tribes were carried captive, it is said, there was none left but the tribe of Judah only:…

And now I have done my endeavor to give your former Mercies and Promises a Resurrection in your Consciences; Oh that you would sit down and pause s[•] while upon these things, and then reflect upon the past Mercies of your lives, and on what has past between God and your Souls,…

Section 24. Thus God who himself began the writing of the Word with his own finger, Exodus 31:11; after he had spoken it Exodus 20; appointing or approving the writing of the rest that followed, Deuteronomy 31:12; Joshua 23:6; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Kings 17:13; 1 Chronicl…

Now this obedience is no obedience, for as he that does not love God above all, does not love God at all; so he that does not obey all the commands universally, cannot be said to obey any command truly. It is said of those in Samaria, that they feared the Lord, and served their…

The heart will apologize for sin, masking over bad transactions with golden pretences. The heart will tell a man he may keep his sin and keep his religion too (2 Kings 17:33): they feared the Lord and served their own gods. The heart will secretly suggest that as long as a man g…

2. THESIS. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament in many places set forth and command to ask for, follow after, walk in that one good way, to strive and contend earnestly for that one faith, to hold fast the truth, to serve God only; and on the contrary reproves, prohibits…

There are lesser sorceries which, they say, are too frequent in our Land. As it was said in 2 Kings 17:9, The Children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God. So it is to be feared, the Children of New-England have secretly done many t…

By Apostasy, Heresy, or Schism? I answer if you will give me leave, she fell by Idolatry, and corruption of manners, against both which the Prophets were protestants (2 Kings 17:13) — [illegible] — God protested against them by his Prophets. Again the same Church reformed in the…