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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry
TDNT Reference: 2:364,201
Trench's Synonyms: xcviii. λαός, ἕθνος, δῆμος, ὄχλος.
Strong's Number G1484 matches the Greek ἔθνος (ethnos),
which occurs 18 times in 15 verses in '2Ki'
in the LXX Greek.
When the Arameans came against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike this nation with blindness.”[fn] So he struck them with blindness, according to Elisha’s word.
but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even sacrificed his son in the fire,[fn] imitating the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites.
They lived according to the customs of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites and according to what the kings of Israel did.
They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did evil things, angering the LORD.
They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
The settlers said to the king of Assyria, “The nations that you have deported and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them that are killing them because the people don’t know the requirements of the god of the land.”
But the people of each nation were still making their own gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.
They feared the LORD, but they also made from their ranks priests for the high places, who were working for them at the shrines of the high places.
They feared the LORD, but they also worshiped their own gods according to the practice of the nations from which they had been deported.
They feared the LORD but also served their idols. Still today, their children and grandchildren continue doing as their ancestors did.
Has any of the gods of the nations ever rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?
“Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed rescue them — nations such as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar?
LORD, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.
He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites.
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