John Gill's Exposition on 2 Kings 17:16

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, etc.] Which their idolatry led them to; and indeed he that offends in one point is guilty of them all, (<590210>James 2:10) and made them molten images, [even] two calves; which they set up at Dan and Bethel, in the times of their first king Jeroboam, (<111328>1 Kings 13:28,29) and made a grove; as Ahab, another of their kings, did, (<111633>1 Kings 16:33) and worshipped all the host of heaven: not the angels, sometimes so called, but, besides the sun and moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus: and served Baal; which was service to the sun, as Abarbinel interprets it; this was the god of the Zidonians Ahab worshipped, having married a princess of that people, (<111631>1 Kings 16:31,32).

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