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2 Raja-raja 17:9

Dan orang Israel telah menjalankan hal-hal yang tidak patut terhadap TUHAN, Allah mereka. Mereka mendirikan bukit-bukit pengorbanan di manapun mereka diam, baik dekat menara penjagaan maupun di kota yang berkubu;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Babylon;   High Places;   Judgments;   Rulers;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Concealment of Sin;   Concealment-Exposure;   False;   High Places;   Idolatry;   Places;   Secret Sins;   Sin;   Sins;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Fear;   Following;   Idolatry;   Vanity;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Forsaking God;   High Places;   Idolatry;   Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Egypt;   Micaiah;   Shalmaneser;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Idol, idolatry;   Israel;   Samaria, samaritans;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Chronicles, Theology of;   Ethics;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Samaritans;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Watches;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   High Places;   Idol;   Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dan;   High Place;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fortification and Siegecraft;   Israel;   Samaria;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shalmanezer;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Hezekiah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Tower;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gardener;   High Place;   Hoshea;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - High Place;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan orang Israel telah menjalankan hal-hal yang tidak patut terhadap TUHAN, Allah mereka. Mereka mendirikan bukit-bukit pengorbanan di manapun mereka diam, baik dekat menara penjagaan maupun di kota yang berkubu;
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka dengan pura-pura berbuat baik dibuat bani Israel beberapa perkara yang tiada patut kepada Tuhan, Allahnya, dan didirikannya panggung dalam segala negerinya, dari pada menara orang pengawal datang kepada segala negeri yang berkota benteng.

Contextual Overview

7 For it came to passe, that the children of Israel sinned against the Lord their God which had brought them out of the land of Egypt, from vnder the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and feared other gods. 8 And they walked in the ceremonies of the heathen whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel, and in the ceremonies which the kinges of Israel had made: 9 And the children of Israel went about to hide those thinges that were not wel from the Lorde their God: And they buylt them hygh places in all their cities, both in the towres where they kept watch, and also in the strong townes: 10 And they made the images & groues in euery hye hill, & vnder euery thicke tree. 11 And there they burnt incense in all the hygh places, as did the heathen whom the Lord caryed away before them, and wrought wicked thinges to anger the Lorde withall: 12 For they serued most vile idols, wherof the Lorde had sayd vnto them: Ye shall do no such thing. 13 And the Lorde testified in Israel and in Iuda by all the prophetes and by all the sears, saying: Turne from your wicked wayes, and kepe my commaundementes and my statutes, according to all the law which I commaunded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my seruauntes the prophetes. 14 Nothwithstanding they woulde not heare, but rather hardened their neckes, lyke to the stubburnesse of their fathers, that dyd not beleue in the Lorde their God. 15 For they refused his statutes, and his appoyntment that he made with their fathers, and the witnesses wherwith he witnessed vnto them, and they folowed vanitie, and became vayne, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lorde had charged them that they shoulde not do lyke them. 16 But they left al the commaundemetes of the Lord their God, and made them images of metal, euen two calues, and [made] idol groues, & worshipped all the hoast of heauen, and serued Baal.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

secretly: Deuteronomy 13:6, Deuteronomy 27:15, Job 31:27, Ezekiel 8:12

from the tower: 2 Kings 18:8, Hosea 12:11

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:23 - groves 2 Kings 23:19 - the houses Jeremiah 32:30 - children Ezekiel 33:29 - because Habakkuk 2:1 - tower

Cross-References

Genesis 17:4
It is I, behold my couenaut [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shalbe called Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.
Psalms 25:10
All the pathes of God are mercie and trueth: vnto such as kepe his couenaunt and his testimonies.
Psalms 103:18
Euen vpon such as kepe his couenaunt: and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God,.... As being partly conscious to themselves that they were not right, and ashamed to commit them openly; and partly as foolishly imagining, that, being done privately, they were not seen and observed of God, having imbibed some atheistical notions of him, that he was not omniscient, or saw not, and had forsaken the earth; or they "covered" g these actions of theirs under reigned and plausible pretences, that what they did they were obliged to by their kings, and with political views, and that they worshipped the true God in the calves; but these were coverings too thin not to be seen through:

and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city; not content with those built in former times, they built new ones; and these not in their metropolis only, but in all the cities of the kingdom; and not in large cities only, but in every town and village between one fortified city and another; even wherever there was a watch tower erected, either for shepherds to watch their flocks, or for keepers of gardens, orchards, and vineyards, to watch the fruits of them, that they were not taken away.

g יחפאו "occultaverunt", Montanus, Vatablus, Grotius; "palliaverunt", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Literally, the words run thus - “And the children of Israel concealed (or ‘dissembled’) words which were not so concerning the Lord their God;” the true meaning of which probably is, the Israelites cloaked or covered their idolatry with the pretence that it was a worship of Yahweh: they glossed it over and dissembled toward God, instead of openly acknowledging their apostasy.

From the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city - This phrase was probably a proverbial expression for universality, meaning strictly; “alike in the most populous and in the most desolate regions.” “Towers of watchmen” were built for the protection of the flocks and herds which were pastured in waste and desert places 2Ch 26:10; 2 Chronicles 27:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 17:9. Did secretly those things — There was much hidden iniquity and private idolatry among them, as well as public and notorious crimes.

From the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. — That is, the idolatry was universal; every place was made a place for some idolatrous rite or act of worship; from the largest city to the smallest village, and from the public watchtower to the shepherd's cot.


 
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