1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Kings 17:2

And he did evil before the Lord: but not as the kings of Israel that had been before him.

Him. The Jews say, that he did not hinder his subjects from going to Jerusalem to adore. One of the golden calves had been sent away by Manahem, Osee 10:5. (Calmet) --- Yet under this less wicked king the nation is destroyed, as their crimes were come to the height; and Osee had not sufficient virtue to suspend the stroke of divine justice any longer. (Haydock)