2 Kings 17:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

They rejected

Jeremiah 8:9

His covenant

Exodus 24:6

Deuteronomy 29:10

Jeremiah 31:32

Testimonies

Vanity

Became vain

Jeremiah 2:5

Romans 1:21

1 Corinthians 8:4

Concerning whom

2 Kings 17:8

Deuteronomy 12:30

2 Chronicles 33:2

General references

Psalm 78:10

Jonah 2:8

Bible References

They rejected

Wise people are put to shame, confused, and trapped. They have rejected the word of Jehovah. They do not really have any wisdom.

His covenant

Moses took half of the blood of the animals and put it in bowls. The other half he threw against the altar.

You stand today, all of you, before Jehovah your God: your leaders, your tribes, your elders and your officers, even all the men of Israel.

It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah.

Testimonies

Obey the commandments of Jehovah your God. Obey his testimonies and statutes for he commanded you.

Jehovah the God of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his prophets because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place.

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority. They turned their backs on your law, and murdered your prophets. These prophets gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you. They did much to make you angry.

I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.

Vanity

They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry.

Do not go after false gods and empty things. They cannot help you or save you. They are useless.

This happened because of the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, and because of all the sins they led Israel to commit. It aroused the anger of Jehovah the God of Israel.

Those who make idols end up like them. So does everyone who trusts them.

They are very stupid and foolish. They teach vanity to a tree. Their idol is wood!

Draw some out, he said, and take it to the master of the feast. So they drew some out.

Became vain

Jehovah says: What bad thing (injustice) did your fathers find in me that they went so far away from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless (lead astray) themselves.

for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.

Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Concerning whom

They lived by the rules of the nations whom Jehovah sent out from before the children of Israel.

Be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them, for they will be destroyed. Do not inquire after their gods, saying: How do these nations serve their gods that I also may do likewise?

He did what Jehovah considered evil by copying the disgusting things done by the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from before the Israelites.

General references

They did not keep the covenant of God. They refused to walk in his law.

They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.