OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 17:2

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He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.

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Verse 2. Him. The Jews say, that he did not hinder his subjects from going to Jerusalem to adore. One of the golden calves had been sent away by Manahem. Osee 10:5. Calmet.—Yet under the less wicked king the nation is destroyed, as their crimes were come to the height; and Osee had not sufficient virtue to suspend the stroke of divine justice any longer. Bible.

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