Bible Strands
2 Kings 21:15
because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through His prophets to declare impending judgment on Judah, following the nation's history of idolatry and Manasseh’s specific atrocities. This pronouncement occurs before Josiah’s reforms are introduced in the subsequent chapter.
The words — The text highlights בְּ/עֵינַ֔/י (be./'ei.Na/i) as "in my sight" and מַכְעִסִ֖ים (makh.'i.Sim) as "provoking to anger," emphasizing that divine judgment responds to observable, persistent rebellion rather than hidden acts.
The thread — This pattern of prolonged disobedience triggering definitive judgment appears in Deuteronomy 9:21, Deuteronomy 31:27, and Deuteronomy 31:29, where God confronts Israel's entrenched rebellion from the Exodus period onward.
Why it lands — It demands a reader acknowledge that cumulative, generational sin reaches a point of no return, requiring direct confrontation with one's own record of provocation rather than spiritual amnesia.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 9:21 And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
- Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
- Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”
- Judges 2:11 And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
- Psalms 106:34 They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
- Ezekiel 16:15 But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.
- Ezekiel 20:4 Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers
- Ezekiel 20:13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:21 But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:30 Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?