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La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
2 Reyes 17:25
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Y aconteció que como al principio de habitar ellos allí, no temieron al Señor , el Señor envió leones entre ellos que mataron a muchos de ellos.
Kings 17:25"> 25 Y aconteció al principio, cuando comenzaron á habitar allí, que no temiendo ellos á Jehová, envió Jehová contra ellos leones que los mataban.
Y aconteció al principio, cuando comenzaron a habitar allí, que no temiendo ellos al SEÑOR, envió el SEÑOR contra ellos leones que los mataban.
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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 âthe god of the landâ (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.
