2 Kings 17:19–23, King James Version
Italic words were supplied in the English translation for clarity.
2 Kings 17:19–23
Judah is implicated while Israel goes into exile
Judah is already implicated while Israel walks into exile
Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight. The northern disaster is not Judah's innocence displayed. It is a preview with Judah already inside the charge.
When the Lord tore Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord and made them commit great sin. The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day. Jeroboam's calves are the originating pattern, not a minor liturgical variant. Exile is the long word coming due, not a racial theory.
How this should shape us
Do not hide inside a southern identity while copying northern customs. If God has already named Judah in the indictment, later collapse will not be a surprise, and gloating over Israel's exile is already a form of the same blindness.
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2 Kings 17:19–23, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 17:19–23
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NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 652–655, translation and translator notes for 17:19–23
Supports: Unit-level literary, compositional, historical, and theological orientation used as one concise scholarly synthesis rather than consensus.
Dietrich, '1 and 2 Kings,' Oxford Bible Commentary (2001), printed pp. 257–261, exposition covering 2 Kings 17:19–23
Supports: Only publisher-visible evidence for complex MT, Septuagint, and Old Latin textual and editorial history in 2 Kings 17.
Tekoniemi, The Textual History of 2 Kings 17 (2021), official synopsis and contents: vv. 1–23 pp. 39–154; redaction pp. 155–217; vv. 24–41 pp. 218–255; conclusions pp. 256–262
Supports: Assyrian royal claims relevant to Samaria's fall, used critically because imperial inscriptions magnify the king and suppress subjected voices.
Frame, RINAP 2 (2021), official ORACC critical edition and Sargon II Samaria records, including the conquest, deportation, resettlement, administration, and tribute claims
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 17:19–23, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 17:19–23
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 652–655, translation and translator notes for 17:19–23
Open source ↗scholarly commentary chapter
1 and 2 Kings
Walter Dietrich
The Oxford Bible Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2001
Supports: Unit-level literary, compositional, historical, and theological orientation used as one concise scholarly synthesis rather than consensus.
Exact location: Dietrich, '1 and 2 Kings,' Oxford Bible Commentary (2001), printed pp. 257–261, exposition covering 2 Kings 17:19–23
Open source ↗scholarly monograph publisher preview
The Textual History of 2 Kings 17
Timo Tekoniemi
De Gruyter, 2021
Supports: Only publisher-visible evidence for complex MT, Septuagint, and Old Latin textual and editorial history in 2 Kings 17.
Exact location: Tekoniemi, The Textual History of 2 Kings 17 (2021), official synopsis and contents: vv. 1–23 pp. 39–154; redaction pp. 155–217; vv. 24–41 pp. 218–255; conclusions pp. 256–262
Open source ↗critical edition of primary assyrian inscriptions
The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721-705 BC)
Grant Frame; primary inscriptions of Sargon II
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, University of Pennsylvania, 2021
Supports: Assyrian royal claims relevant to Samaria's fall, used critically because imperial inscriptions magnify the king and suppress subjected voices.
Exact location: Frame, RINAP 2 (2021), official ORACC critical edition and Sargon II Samaria records, including the conquest, deportation, resettlement, administration, and tribute claims
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