Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 17:33

33 They feared the LORD , and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence .

They worshipped God externally in that way which the Israelites used.

These words belong, either 1. to both the foregoing branches, and to the Israelites; and then the sense is, They trod in the steps of their predecessors, the Israelites (who, in regard of their several Tribes, are both here, and elswhere, called Nations) who did, many of them, worship both God in their Calves, and Baal too. Or, 2. to the last branch onely; but then the words must be otherwise rendred; they served their own gods, after the manner of the Nations from which they brought, or carried them, or from whence they (these new Inhabitants) were brought; i. e. each of them served the god of the country or place whence he was brought, as is related above, ver. 30, 31. But these Nations could not so properly be said to be carried away, or to be carried away captive (as this Hebrew word signifies), as the Israelites; and therefore the former interpretation seems more proper.

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