2 Kings 17:34
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel;
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Genesis 32:29(32-30) And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there.
Genesis 35:10And God said unto him: 'Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name'; and He called his name Israel.
1 Kings 18:11And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here.
2 Kings 17:25And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
2 Kings 17:33They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
Psalms 55:20(55-21) He hath put forth his hands against them that were at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:25-41
The Samaritans' Idolatry. ( b. c. 720.) 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord : therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The… Read the whole commentary →