Guiding Questions: II Kings 17

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This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

Until this point in our text, how might you describe the position or the relationship between the Kingdoms of Israel and their neighbors?
Again, notice the author’s theological justification for the situation of the Kingdoms of Israel at this moment in history.
What did God command the Israelites to do with the other religions and peoples that they would encounter when they first entered the Land of Israel as they came out of the desert?
Consult Deuteronomy 18:10 for God’s explicit warning of those practices that they were not allowed to adopt as they entered the Land.
Notice that the pagan priests are attempting to teach the Israelites how to fear the Lord! This is a very ironic moment. Yet even from the non-Jews, the Israelites fail to learn their lesson

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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Post categories: Kings II, Neviim (Prophets), Tanakh, Tanakh Yomi

Post tags: II Kings 17, Perek Yomi (USCJ)

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