Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 King 17:9 - 17:9

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 King 17:9 - 17:9


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Things that were not right against the Lord: this belongs, either,



1. To their gross idolatries, and other abominable practices, which they were ashamed to own before others: compare Eze_8:12. Or,



2. To the worship of calves; and so the words are otherwise rendered, and that agreeably to the Hebrew text, they cloaked, or disguised, or covered things that were not right against, or before, or towards the Lord, i.e. they covered their idolatrous worship of the calves with fair pretences of necessity, the two kingdoms being now divided, and at enmity; and of their honest intention of serving the true God, and retaining the substance of the Jewish religion, from which they alleged that they differed only in circumstances of worship.



From the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city; in all parts and places, both in cities and in the country; yea, in the most uninhabited and neglected parts, where few or none dwell beside the watchmen, who are left there in towers, to preserve the cattle and fruits of the earth, or to give notice of the approach of enemies.