2 Raja-raja 17:25

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Pada mulanya waktu mereka diam di sana tidaklah mereka takut kepada TUHAN, sebab itu TUHAN melepaskan singa-singa ke antara mereka yang membunuh beberapa orang di antara mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Pada mulanya waktu mereka diam di sana tidaklah mereka takut kepada TUHAN, sebab itu TUHAN melepaskan singa-singa ke antara mereka yang membunuh beberapa orang di antara mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sesungguhnya pada permulaan kedudukan mereka itu di sana, sebab tiada mereka itu berbuat bakti kepada Tuhan, disuruhkan Tuhan beberapa singa kepadanya, yang membunuh banyak orang dari pada mereka itu.

Contextual Overview

²⁴ And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cutha, fro Aua, from Hamath, and from Sepharuaim, and put them in the cities of Samaria in steede of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities therof. ²⁵ And it fortuned, that at the beginning of their dwelling there, they feared not the Lorde, and the Lorde sent lions among them, which slue them. ²⁶ Wherfore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying: The nations which thou hast translated & put in the cities of Samaria knowe not the lawe of the God of the lande: therefore he hath sent lions vpon them, and behold they slay them, because they knowe not the maner of worshipping the God of the lande. ²⁷ Then the king of Assyria commaunded, saying: Cary thyther one of the priestes whom ye brought thence, and let hym go and dwell there, and teache them the fashion how to serue the God of the countrey. ²⁸ And then one of the priestes whom they had caried from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them howe they shoulde feare the Lorde. ²⁹ Howebeit euery nation made them gods of their owne, and put them in the houses of the hygh places whiche the Samaritans had made, euery nation in their cities wherin they dwelt. ³⁰ The men of Babylon made Socoth Benoth, & the men of Cuth made Nergal, & the men of Hamath made Asima, ³¹ The Auites made Nibbaz and Tharthak: And the Sepharuites burnt their children in fire for Adramelech and Anamelech, the gods of Sepharuaim. ³² And so they feared the Lorde, & made them priestes of the basist of them, which sacrifised for them in the houses of the hygh places. ³³ And so they feared the Lord, and serued their owne gods, after the maner of the people whom they caryed thence.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they feared: 2 Kings 17:28, 2 Kings 17:32, 2 Kings 17:34, 2 Kings 17:41, Joshua 22:25, Jeremiah 10:7, Daniel 6:26, Jonah 1:9

the Lord sent: 2 Kings 2:24, 1 Kings 13:24, 1 Kings 20:36, Jeremiah 5:6, Jeremiah 15:3, Ezekiel 14:15, Ezekiel 14:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:3 - lest he Leviticus 26:6 - rid Leviticus 26:22 - wild Isaiah 15:9 - lions Ezekiel 5:17 - and evil

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord,.... Did not serve him in any manner, but their idols only, which they brought with them; whereas it was usual with Heathens to serve the gods of the country, as they reputed them, where they came, along with their own; but even this those men did not do:

therefore the Lord sent lions among them; even into their cities, into which lions sometimes came l, especially when old, out of the thickets of Jordan and other places where they haunted, see Jeremiah 49:19

which slew some of them; this the Lord did to assert his sovereignty, authority, and mighty power, and to let them know that he could as easily clear the land of them, as they, by his permission, had cleared the land of the Israelites, Josephus m calls this a plague that was sent among them.

l Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 44. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 16. m Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 9. c. 14. sect. 1.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The depopulation of the country, insufficiently remedied by the influx of foreigners, had the natural consequence of multiplying the wild beasts and making them bolder. Probably a certain number had always lurked in the jungle along the course of the Jordan Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44; and these now ventured into the hill country, and perhaps even into the cities. The colonists regarded their sufferings from the lions as a judgment upon them from “the god of the land” (2 Kings 17:26; compare 1 Kings 20:23 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 17:25. The Lord sent lions among them — The land being deprived of its inhabitants, wild beasts would necessarily increase, even without any supernatural intervention; and this the superstitious new comers supposed to be a plague sent upon them, because they did not know how to worship him who was the God of the land; for they thought, like other heathens that every district had its own tutelary deity. Yet it is likely that God did send lions as a scourge on this bad people.