2 Kings 17:11

and make incense there in all high places, like the nations that YHWH removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke YHWH,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

In Context

10and set up standing-pillars and Asherim for themselves on every high height, and under every green tree,

12and serve the idols, of which YHWH said to them, “You do not do this thing.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 18:9When you are coming into the land which your God YHWH is giving to you, you do not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 32:21They have made Me jealous by [what is] not God, || They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them jealous by [what is] not a people, || I make them angry by a foolish nation.

1 Kings 14:15And YHWH has struck Israel as the reed is moved by the waters, and has plucked Israel from off this good ground that He gave to their fathers, and scattered them beyond the River, because that they made their Asherim, provoking YHWH to anger;

2 Kings 21:6and he has caused his son to pass through fire, and observed clouds, and used enchantment, and dealt with a familiar spirit and wizards; he has multiplied to do evil in the eyes of YHWH—to provoke to anger.

Psalms 78:56And they tempt and provoke God Most High, || And have not kept His testimonies.

Hosea 9:10As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, || As the first-fruit in a fig tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, || They have gone in [to] Ba‘al-Peor, || And are separated to a shameful thing, || And have become abominable like their love.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:8-24

The Wickedness of Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built… Read the whole commentary →

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