: 10. 2 And he did that which was evil in the ſight of the LORD, but not as the king of Iſr:el that were before him c, | c For he neither worſhipped Baal,as many of his Predeceſſors did; nor compelled the People ro Worſhip the Calves;one of them, thar of Dan, being deſtroyed,or carried away before, as the H:brew W ri- rers aſirm; nor,as ſome add, hindred thoſe by force, who were min- ded to go to Jeruſalem to worthip, And yet, the meaſure of the 1 raclites lins, being now full, vengeance comes upon them withour remedy ; Compare 2 Kings 23:26. Againſt him came up Shalmaneſer 4d king of Aſ- {vria, and Hoſhea became his ſervant, and Þ gave him , pq; [| preſents e.
Writers make him the ſame with Sernacher;b,who Eight Years after bute. this time, invaded the Kingdom of Judah ; See chap.18:10,13, it be-
ing very frequent in the Ezſtern parts, for one man to be called by leveral Names, eſpecially by the People of ſeveral Countries. Joſe- phus affirms,that he met with his Name in the Annals of the Tyrians, which were extant in his days. He came againſt him,either becauſe
he denied the Tribute which he had promiſed to pay ; or that he might make him Tributary. e Swore Fealty to him,and engaged
to pay him a Tribute.
4 And the king of Aſſyria found conſpiracy in Ho- ſhea : for he had tent meſſengers to So king of Egypt f, and brought no preſent to the king-of Aſſyria,as be had done year by year: therefore the king of Aſlyria ſhut him up, and bound him in priſon g.
f By heathen Writers called $us,or Sabachus,that by his Aſſiſtance he might ſhake off the Yoke of the King of 4ſjria ; who now was, and for many Years had been the King of Eg yp:*s Rival; See 2 Kings 18. 21, Fer: 37:5. Sg To wit,after he had come up againſt him,and taken him, with Samaria ; the particular Relation whereof here follows. "If
'5 J Then the king of Afſyria came up throughout all che iand, and went up to Samaria, and beſieged ic- chree years.
6 5 * In the ninth year of Hoſhea, the king of Afly- + cy; ria took Samaria, and carried Iirael away into Afſyria, 18: 10: and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, 4 the river of Gozan, and in the Cities of the Medes 4.
\-þ This 1s added,to diſtinguiſh this place from the former,which was either in 4ſjris,0r in the mountainous and leis inhabited parrs
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bp. XVI. ' 8 = radia. Hither he carried them, partly to replenith ht nn , oo nary; becauſe theſe places were at fo great 2 o_ tance From Canaar,that this wonld cut off all Hopes and Thoughts f returning to their own Country. |
g- Tor j it was,that the children of Iſrael had finned
againſt the LORD their God, which had brought them
19 out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gotls :
8 And walked in the ſtatutes of the heathen 7 (whom the LORD had caſt our from before the children of 11- rael) and of the kings of Ifrael,which they had made &.
5; e. According to the Laws and Cuſtoms of the Heathen,in the Worſhip of their Baals, and other of their fins. & 7 e, Which the Kings cf 1/rael had ordained copies the > &1 mg p of the Calves,
{ their going up to Jeruſalem ro WOrthip ; Þ And the children of 1ſrael did ſecretly hoſe things tht were not right,againſt the LORD / their God,ancl they built them high places in all their cities, from the
rower of the watchmen, to the fenced city m. 1 This belongs,cither, 1. To their groſs Idvlatries,and other abo-
minable Pra&tices, w Compare Exek:$:12. Or, 2. Words are ot Text ; they cloaked, Or againſt, he red the | larrous Worſhip of the Calves,with fair Pretences of necetity the Two Kingdoms being now divided,and at enmity ;and of their ho- neſt i nrenrion of ſerving the True God,and retaining the ſubſiance of the Jewiſh Religion, from which they alledged,thar rhey differed only in Circumſtances of Worſhip. In all parts and places,both in Citics,and in the Country; yea, the moſt uninhabired and ne= gle&ed parts, where few or none dwell,belide the Watchmen, who Ire left there in Towers,ro preſerve the Cattel and Fruits of the E-rth, or to give notice of the approach of Enemies.
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diſguiſed, or covered things that were nor right
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hich they were aſhamed ro own. before others; ;
or before, or rowards tha Load : 1. e. They covered their Idos :
part of the Tribe of Benjamin, and thoſe of the Tribes of Simecr and Levi who adhered to them,and were incorporated with them; and therefore very fitly dencminated from them: Sce of this Phrate on I1- Kings 11: 13-
19 Alſo Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the ſtatutes of Ifrae!
which they made 7. i
d Judah's Idolarry and. Wickednelſs is here remembred, as an aggravation Of the fin of the. 1/racl:ter, which was nor only evil in it ſelf, bur ſcandalous, and miſchievous ro their Neighbours, who by their Examples were inſtru&ed in their wicked Arts, and pro= voked to an Imitation of them ; See Hoſbea 4+ 15, and compare Matth. 18. 7.
20 And the LORD rejeded all the ſezd of Iſrael e, and afflicted them,and delivered them 4nto the hand of
ſpoilers, until he had caſt then our of his ſight.
e 7. e. All the Kingdom, or Tribes of Jſracl : firſt, one part of them, chap. 15.29. and now the reſt. Bur this extends not to every individual Perſon of theſe Tribes; for many of them removed into the Kingdom of Judah, and were aſſociated with them, as appears from 2 C#ron. 11.16. and many other places. :
21 For * he rent Iſrael from the houſe of David,and * they made Jeroboam the ſon of Nebat king f,and Je-
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herwiſe rehdered, and thar agreeably to the Hebrew | roboam drave Ifraei from following the LORD g, ard 12.:0,:8.
made then ſin a great flu þ,