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2 Kings 17 Translation Questions
Q? What did Hoshea do when he became Shalmaneser's servant?
A. Hoshea became his servant and brought him tribute. [17:3]
Q? How had Hoshea been plotting against Shalmaneser?
A. Hoshea had been plotting against Shalmaneser, for Hoshea had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt. [17:4]
Q? Why did the captivity happen?
A. The captivity happened because the people of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God. [17:7]
Q? What had Yahweh said the Israelites must not do?
A. Yahweh had said they must not worship idols. [17:12]
Q? By whom had Yahweh testified to Israel and to Judah?
A. Yahweh had testified to Israel and to Judah by every prophet and every seer. [17:13]
Q? The Israelites were very stubborn like whom?
A. The Israelites were very stubborn like their fathers who did not trust in Yahweh their God. [17:14]
Q? How did the Israelites sell themselves?
A. The Israelites sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. [17:17]
Q? Why did Yahweh remove Israel from his sight?
A. The people of Israel followed all the sins of Jeroboam and they did not depart from them, so Yahweh removed Israel from his sight. [17:22-23]
Q? Why did Yahweh send lions among the new nations in Samaria?
A. The nations in Samaria did not honor Yahweh, so he sent lions among them. [17:25]
Q? What did the priest teach the new people in Bethel?
A. The priest taught them how they should honor Yahweh. [17:28]
Q? Where did every ethnic group put the gods they made?
A. Every ethnic group made gods of their own, and put them in the shrines that the Samaritans had made. [17:29]
Q? Besides their own gods, who did the new nations in Israel honor?
A. The new nations also honored Yahweh. [17:32]
Q? How did the new people in Israel not honor Yahweh?
A. The new people did not honor Yahweh, because he commanded that they must not fear other gods. [17:34-35]
Q? How did the nations in Israel not listen?
A. They did not listen because they continued to do what they had done in the past. [17:40]