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2 Kings 17 General Notes
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This chapter ends the story about the kingdom of Israel and continues with Judah alone.
Special concepts in this chapter
Idol worship
Israel continued to worship idols, so God punished them by allowing Assyria to conquer them and take them away. Assyria brought people from other lands and settled them in what used to be Israel's territory and the new people worshiped their own gods in addition to Yahweh. (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/falsegod)