2 Kings 17:25 meaning and explanation
Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
2 Kings 17:25, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator explains why lions attacked the foreign settlers Assyria brought into Samaria after Israel's exile. These people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim had their own gods and knew nothing of the LORD, whom the text calls the God of the land.
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