{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[{"id":"ryle.JHN.4.9.2","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 4:9","href":"/jhn/4/#v9-ryle","text":"2 Kings xvii. 1","snippet":"(2 Kings xvii. 1, &c."}],"2":[],"3":[],"4":[],"5":[],"6":[],"7":[],"8":[],"9":[],"10":[],"11":[],"12":[],"13":[],"14":[],"15":[],"16":[],"17":[],"18":[],"19":[],"20":[],"21":[],"22":[],"23":[],"24":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.4.12.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 4:12","href":"/jhn/4/#v12-calvin","text":"2 Kings 17:24","snippet":"But now that they are Cutheans by descent, (2 Kings 17:24,) or at least collected out of the profane Gentiles, they still do not fail to make false pretensions to the name of the holy Patriarch."}],"25":[],"26":[],"27":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.4.20.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 4:20","href":"/jhn/4/#v20-calvin","text":"2 Kings 17:27","snippet":"… into Samaria, when the ten tribes were led into captivity, were constrained by the plagues and punishments of God to adopt the ceremonies of the Law, and to profess the worship of the God of Israel, (as we read, 2 Kings 17:27;) yet the religion which they had was imperfect and corrupted in many ways; which the Jews could not all endure."},{"id":"henry.JHN.4.22.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 4:22","href":"/jhn/4/#v22-henry","text":"2 Kings xvii. 27, 33","snippet":"They worshipped the God of Israel, the true God (Ezra iv. 2; 2 Kings xvii. 32); but they were sunk into gross ignorance; they worshipped him as the God of that land (2 Kings xvii. 27, 33), as a local deity, like the gods of the nations, whereas God must be served as God, as the universal cause and Lord."}],"28":[],"29":[],"30":[],"31":[],"32":[{"id":"henry.JHN.4.22.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 4:22","href":"/jhn/4/#v22-henry","text":"2 Kings xvii. 32","snippet":"They worshipped the God of Israel, the true God (Ezra iv. 2; 2 Kings xvii. 32); but they were sunk into gross ignorance; they worshipped him as the God of that land (2 Kings xvii. 27, 33), as a local deity, like the gods of the nations, whereas God must be served as God, as the universal cause …"}],"33":[{"id":"henry.JHN.4.22.1","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 4:22","href":"/jhn/4/#v22-henry","text":"2 Kings xvii. 27, 33","snippet":"They worshipped the God of Israel, the true God (Ezra iv. 2; 2 Kings xvii. 32); but they were sunk into gross ignorance; they worshipped him as the God of that land (2 Kings xvii. 27, 33), as a local deity, like the gods of the nations, whereas God must be served as God, as the universal cause and Lord."}],"34":[],"35":[],"36":[],"37":[],"38":[],"39":[],"40":[],"41":[]}}