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2 Reyes 17:16

Y dejaron todos los mandamientos de Jehová su Dios, y se hicieron dos becerros de fundición, también imágenes de Asera, y adoraron a todo el ejército del cielo, y sirvieron a Baal:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Baal;   Babylon;   Groves;   Idolatry;   Judgments;   Rulers;   Stars;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Calves, Jeroboam's;   False;   Golden Calves;   Idolatry;   Images;   Worship;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Fear;   Following;   Idolatry;   Rejection;   Unbelief;   Vanity;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Forsaking God;   Groves;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Egypt;   Shalmaneser;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Idol, idolatry;   Israel;   Samaria, samaritans;   Uncleanness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Chronicles, Theology of;   Ethics;   Leadership;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Samaritans;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Host of Heaven;   Stars;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baal (1);   Idol;   Kings, the Books of;   Sabaoth, Lord of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Asherah;   Covenant;   Dan;   Gods, Pagan;   Golden Calf;   High Place;   Host of Heaven;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Host of Heaven;   Idolatry;   Israel;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baal, Baalim ;   Calf, Golden;   Israel ;   Moon;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shalmanezer;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Baal;   Captivity;   Hezekiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ba'al,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Baal;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Astrology;   Calf, Golden;   Host of Heaven;   Idolatry;   Queen of Heaven;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Baal;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - High Place;   Host of Heaven;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y abandonaron todos los mandamientos del Señor su Dios, y se hicieron imágenes fundidas de dos becerros; hicieron una Asera, adoraron a todo el ejército de los cielos y sirvieron a Baal.
La Biblia Reina-Valera
Kings 17:16"> 16 Y dejaron todos los mandamientos de Jehová su Dios, é hiciéronse vaciadizos dos becerros, y también bosques, y adoraron á todo el ejército del cielo, y sirvieron á Baal:
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y dejaron todos los mandamientos del SEÑOR su Dios, y se hicieron vaciadizos, dos becerros; e hicieron bosques, y adoraron a todo el ejército del cielo, y sirvieron a Baal;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

molten images: Exodus 32:4, Exodus 32:8, 1 Kings 12:28, Psalms 106:18-20, Isaiah 44:9, Isaiah 44:10

a grove: 2 Kings 17:10, 1 Kings 14:15, 1 Kings 14:23, 1 Kings 15:13, 1 Kings 16:33

worshipped: Deuteronomy 4:19, Jeremiah 8:2

Baal: 2 Kings 10:18-28, 2 Kings 11:18, 1 Kings 16:31, 1 Kings 22:53

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:21 - General Judges 10:6 - the gods of Zidon 2 Kings 13:6 - and there remained 2 Kings 18:6 - kept 2 Kings 21:3 - and worshipped 2 Kings 23:4 - Baal 2 Kings 23:19 - to provoke the Lord Psalms 106:36 - And Jeremiah 44:17 - queen of heaven Ezekiel 23:8 - whoredoms Hosea 4:6 - seeing Hosea 8:5 - mine Hosea 8:12 - but Hosea 10:5 - the calves Hosea 10:14 - and all Hosea 11:2 - they sacrificed Hosea 13:1 - offended Amos 5:2 - is fallen Acts 7:42 - the host Acts 7:43 - ye took

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God,.... Which their idolatry led them to; and indeed he that offends in one point is guilty of them all, James 2:10

and made them molten images, [even] two calves; which they set up at Dan and Bethel, in the times of their first king Jeroboam, 1 Kings 13:28

and made a grove; as Ahab, another of their kings, did, 1 Kings 16:33

and worshipped all the host of heaven: not the angels, sometimes so called, but, besides the sun and moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus:

and served Baal; which was service to the sun, as Abarbinel interprets it; this was the god of the Zidonians Ahab worshipped, having married a princess of that people, 1 Kings 16:31.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In 2 Kings 17:10 there is a reference to the old high-place worship, which was professedly a worship of Yahweh, but with unauthorized rites and emblems; here the reference is to Ahab’s setting up a grove to Baal in the city of Samaria (marginal reference).

And worshipped all the host of heaven - Astral worship has not hitherto been mentioned as practiced by the Israelites. Moses had warned against it Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 17:3, so that it no doubt existed in his day, either among the Canaanite nations or among the Arabians Job 31:26-28. Perhaps it was involved to some extent in the Baal worship of the Phoenicians, for Baal and Astarte were probably associated in the minds of their worshippers with the Sun and moon. Later in the history we shall find a very decided and well-developed astral worship prevalent among the Jews, which is probably Assyro-Babylonian (2 Kings 21:3 note).


 
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