King James Version
2 Kings 17:19 in the King James Version says “Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 17 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.”
2 Kings 17:19 · 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.
Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
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properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“Also Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“kept”
H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“not the commandments”
H4687a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the law)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“their God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
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