Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Kings 17

2 Kings 17:1 (!) Hoshea King of Israel is taken.

2 Kings 17:2 (!) Thogh he inuented no new idolatrie or impietie as others did, yet he foght for helpe at the Egyptians which God had forbidden.

2 Kings 17:4 (!) And he and all his realme broght to the Assyrians

2 Kings 17:5 (b) For he had payed tribute for the space of eight yeres.

2 Kings 17:6 (c) For at this time the Medes and Persians were subject to the Assyrians.

2 Kings 17:7 (d) He setteth forth at length the cause of this great plague & perpetual captiuitie, to admonish all people and nacions to cleane to the Lord God, and onely worship him for feare of like judgement.

2 Kings 17:9 (e) Meaning, throughout all their borders.

2 Kings 17:13 (/) Ebr by the hand of.

2 Kings 17:14 (f) So that to alledge the autoritie of our fathers or great antiquitie, except we can proue that they were godlie, is that to declare that we are the children of the wicked.

2 Kings 17:16 (g) That is, the sunne, the moone & starres, {Deut. 4,19}

2 Kings 17:17 (h) Read {Chap. 36,3}

2 Kings 17:17 (i) Read of this phrase, {1 King 21,20 & 25}

2 Kings 17:18 (k) No whole tribe was left but Judah, & thei of Benjamin & Leui, which remained, were counted with Judah.

2 Kings 17:18 (!) For their idolatrie.

2 Kings 17:20 (l) Out of the land where he shewed the greatest tokens of his presence & fauour.

2 Kings 17:21 (m) That is, God cut of the ten tribes, {1 King. 12,16}

2 Kings 17:23 (/) Ebr. by the hand of.

2 Kings 17:24 (!) Lions destroie the Assyrians that dwelt in Samaria.

2 Kings 17:24 (n) Of these peoples came the Samaritans, whereof mencion is so muche made in the Gospel, & with whome the jewes wolde haue nothing to do, {Joh. 4,9}

2 Kings 17:25 (o) That is, thei serued him not: therefore, lest they shuld blaspheme him, as thogh there were no God, because he chastised the Israelites, he sheweth his mightie power among them by this strange punishment.

2 Kings 17:27 (p) That is, how to worship him: thus the wicked rather then to lose their commodities wil change to all religions.

2 Kings 17:29 (!) Euerie on worshippeth the God of his nation,

2 Kings 17:30 (q) Meaning, that euery countrey serued that idole, which was moste estemed in that place whence they came.

2 Kings 17:33 (r) That is, thei had a certein knowledge of God & feared him, because of the punishment, but thei continued stil idolaters, as do the Papists, which worship bothe God & idoles: but this is not to feare God as appeareth {vers. 34}

2 Kings 17:34 (s) He meaneth this by the Israelites, to whome he had giuen his commandements.

2 Kings 17:35 (!) Contrary to the commandement of God.

2 Kings 17:41 (t) That is, these strangers, which were sent into Samaria by the Assyrians.