2 Kings 17:17

2 Kings 17:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
• New International Version (NIV)They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.
• New Living Translation (NLT)They even sacrificed their own sons and daughters in the fire. They consulted fortune-tellers and practiced sorcery and sold themselves to evil, arousing the Lord’s anger.

Context of 2 Kings 17:17

15They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal. And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only. 19Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.

2 Kings 17:17 word by word

וַֽ֠יַּעֲבִירוּ אֶת־בְּנֵיהֶ֤ם וְאֶת־בְּנֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ בָּאֵ֔שׁ וַיִּקְסְמ֥וּ קְסָמִ֖ים וַיְנַחֵ֑שׁוּ וַיִּֽתְמַכְּר֗וּ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת הָרַ֛ע בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לְהַכְעִיסֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And they caused their sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• and their daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323
• to passעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• through the fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
• and usedקָסַםqâsam · to divineH7080
• divinationקֶ֫סֶםqesem · divinationH7081
• and enchantmentsנָחַשׁnâchash · to divineH5172
• and soldמָכַרmâkar · to sellH4376
• themselves to doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• evilרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: evilH7451
• in the sightעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eye: seeingH5869
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• to provoke him to angerכָּעַסka‛as · to provokeH3707

Cross-references for 2 Kings 17:17

• 2 Kings 16:3but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
• 2 Kings 21:6And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
• Leviticus 18:21You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
• 2 Chronicles 28:3and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
• Psalms 106:37They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;
• Ezekiel 20:26and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.
• Ezekiel 23:37For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
• Deuteronomy 18:10There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
• 2 Chronicles 33:6And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
• Isaiah 8:19And when they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
• Isaiah 47:9These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.
• Jeremiah 27:9So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon.'
• Micah 5:12and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
• Acts 16:16As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.
• Galatians 5:26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
• 1 Kings 21:20Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.

Commentaries on 2 Kings 17:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Sold themselves to do evil - Abandoned themselves to the will of the devil, to work all iniquity with greediness.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Compare 2 Kings 16:3 note, and see Leviticus 20:2-5 note.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-23Verses 7-23 Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the reasons of it given. It was destruction from the Almighty: the Assyrian was but the rod of his anger, Is 10:5. Those that bring sin into a country or family, bring a plague into it, and will have to answer for all the mischief that follows. And vast as the outward wickedness of the world is, the secret sins…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-17all the commandments of the LORD: The narrator lists specific examples of Israel's disobedience. These include: the two metal calves set up at Dan and Bethel (1 Kings 12:28–30), the Canaanite fertility symbol called an Asherah pole (2 Kings 13:6; 17:10; 1 Kings 14:23; 16:33; Micah 5:14), the ongoing worship of Baal (1 Kings 16:31–33; Hosea 2:13; 13:1), and the detestable Molech rituals (2 Kings 16:3; Psalm 106:37).Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Kings 17:17

• Assyria
• Babylon
• Character
• Fire
• Idolatry
• Judgments
• Rulers

In the dictionaries

• Assyria
• Astrology
• Calf, Golden
• Captivity
• Enchantment
• Fear
• Firstborn; Firstling
• Kings, Books of
• Sacrifice, Human
• Samaria, Country of

Commentaries on 2 Kings 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings