2 Kings 17:16 meaning and explanation
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
2 Kings 17:16, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator is summing up the charges against the northern kingdom of Israel, explaining why Assyria carried the people into exile. The two cast calves recall Jeroboam's golden calves at Dan and Bethel, the Asherah pole is a wooden symbol of the goddess Asherah, and the host of heaven means the stars and heavenly bodies worshiped as gods.
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